Re: ShopTalk: OT - Putting at the 3M Tourney

[Jeremy Ingle]

If you are going to have a putter head fall off what more appropriate 
tourney than this one--- 3M are the largest tape manufacturer in the 
world one inch of any of their products wrapped round the shaft and 
jammed back into the head would have solved the problem. Unless of 
course he caused the head to come off by misuse!
Jeremy
Andy Ruigh wrote:

The Champions Tour had it's event at the TPC of the Twin Cities this past
weekend.  They were commending the greens on the first day.  But......
This is an excerpt copied from the 8/7/04 Star Tribune newspaper:
The only player who probably didn't think so was tour veteran Jim Colbert,
and that's because he played his entire round putting with a sand wedge or
3-wood after his putter blade fell off the shaft on the first hole because
it was defective.  Colbert bade Stadler farewell after three-putting that
opening hole, but Stadler said he convinced his playing partner to stay
because "you've got nothing else to do today".
Stadler putted with alternative clubs two consecutive weeks on tour in
California last season, first after his putter "slipped out of my hand and
ended up 100 yards down in a canyon" and then after two failed
experimental rounds with a belly putter inspired him to hand the worthless
thing to a young fan in the gallery.
-Andy