Re: ShopTalk: Heavy Put

[tflan]

Speaking of heavy putter reminds me of the jumbo sized superlight aluminum head putter rage of several years ago. Remember when Nicklaus won the Masters with one of those monsters? Stores couldn't get enough of them. When at last the putters piled up on the shelves what did Nicklaus do? He painted it white! Zoom! Up went sales again.   Nicklaus also unwrapped the leather grips on his putters and rewapped them over a scorecard pencil, until USGA made "reminder" grips illegal. Even further back, Wilson made nearly all their clubs with a flattened section at the top of the grip, a reminder.   And before that, a lot of guys on tour were filling putter shafts with sand, salt, lead powder, lead rods and hell, even cement.   I've said for years that a good putter could putt with a sidewalk brick attached to a shaft and that a lousy putter had better just live with the curse.   TFlan     ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Heavy Putter In a message dated 2/7/05 4:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone tried to  find out  the specs of the Heavy Putter and if so have you tried to build something along similiar lines? Do you mean "knocking it off"?  If it meets will sales success you will see the head as a "similar" component. Just look at all the screw weighted drivers that are hitting the market.