At a charity touneyment I played at, they had us ditch our putters and use a brick glued to a shaft. It actually doesn't work that well. :)
Brian Parkinson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TOM FLANAGAN Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:20 PM To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Putters, etc. Thanks for the reasoned discourse. I'm one of the zillions who took the advanced clubmaker's course at GS way too many years ago to remember. One thing I do recall though is that we didn't spend a lot of time talking about putters. I had been a clubmaker for a lot of years before I went to Austin (the course was a birthday gift . . . a vacation sort of). It was a good week and well worth the effort. I mentioned I've been playing the same putter pretty constantly since about '67 - a Ping Z Blade. I won some scrip in a tournament and had to spend it at the golf shop. I picked up the Z Blade, went to the practice green, dropped a ball about 30 feet from the hole and canned it. I bought the putter after that one putt. I've changed the length several times - started with a 2" plug and then cut it down about a 1/4" at a time. It's now about 35 1/2" long and it works. I never added weight or tried to bend the single curve shaft. The one constant over the years has been the grip. It's a paddle style Tacki-Mac that isn't made any longer. I have 3 of them and guard them carefully. I have tried just about every other putter on the market, but the first thing I did was pop the grips and slip on one of my Tacki-Macs. Aside from a 2-Ball "blade" I acquired, not one putter has done as well for me as has the Z-Blade. Putting is, I think, 99% mental, 1% physical. I believe the Ping will make putts. I don't believe those branding irons will. Putting is such a purely personal part of the game that I think, and I've said often, if a guy believes it, he can putt with a sidewalk brick on the end of a stick. On the other hand, some guys just suck at putting no matter what the implement. TFlan
