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Ping has a "custom shop". It's called Ping WRX.

I have 9 putters.... Scotty Cameron JLM Tour A006864 Scotty Cameron Button Back Newport (recently traded though for an Inspiried By David Duval) Scotty Cameron Custom Shop Studio Design #2 ("CS Putter of the Day" 7/23/10) Scotty Cameron Custom Shop TeI3 Newport (Pro Platinum finish) Scotty Cameron Circa '62 #6 Scotty Cameron Studio Select Newport 2 Ping Redwood D66 Odyssey Black Series #3 Odyssey White Hot XG 2-ball SRT I know, I know. I can't help it.

Anytime I see/hear anything about Carl Petterssen, all I can think of is when I saw him at the Shell Houston Open Pro-Am a few years ago. I was sitting in the stands around the #1 tee waiting for my tee time, and up walked Petterssen onto the tee. The pros had their own tent with pin sheets, ball markers, fruit, granola bars, and so on. We had our own tent; the only thing inside of it was bottled water and a bunch of tees. Petterssen hits his tee shot and walks off to the side. What does he do while his group of amateurs is teeing off? He walks into our tent and dumps every single tee in the huge bucket (not a little basket but a damn bucket) into his huge staff bag. Part of me was a little pissed off (mainly because now I wouldn't be able to do the same thing he did since he took all of them), but for the most part I couldn't stop laughing. A touring pro on the PGA Tour with a big endorsement deal with a big golf company, but there he is stealing all the tees he could just like the average hacker.

My putter pictures above have the Gun Blue finish on it. Gun Blue and Black Oxide both mean the same thing. THe finish he's describing is probably either an Oil Can finish with really good lighting or it's the tour-only Chromatic Blue finish. Bleow are links to a couple of examples of the Chromatic Blue finish: http://www.scottycameron.com/authent...istry=A004124# http://www.scottycameron.com/authent...istry=A015772#

That's why mine is sitting in the closet right now....

I didn't get the authentication mainly because I don't plan on selling the putter anytime soon and since it's an OTR model that really isn't worth all that much compared to other limited/tour models out there. As for the price, I'll leave it up to you to calculate how much it cost. The putter cost me about $120 used, and at the Custom Shop I had a complete restoration (re-milled, new finish/shaft/grip/shaftband/headcover/paintfill), Custom Shop stamp, loft/lie/length changed, and upgraded teh headcover to the red nylon NOS. You mention options that are not shown on the order form. If you go onto Cameron Collector in teh Custom Shop area, they have a sticky thread up at the top where they go over every option available, whether it's on the order form or not.

I bought a used Scotty Cameron Studio Design 2 about 6-7 months ago from a local golf shop. I was in good "gamer" condition, but you can tell someone had used it for a decade and not taken care of it all that well. About 2 months ago I sent it into the Scotty Cameron Custom Shop for a complete restoration. I've sent a putter into them before so I know they do great work. After a long wait, the putter arrived in the mail earlier this week, and it looks absolutely amazing. I was on the SC website yesterday looking up specso n a different putter, and what's the first thing that I see on their homepage? It's my putter on the top banner as their "Custom Shop Putter of the Day"!!! I did a double and triple take and thought it had to be someone else's putter but it was mine!!! I'm kinda excited but feel dorky because I'm excited. Here are a few screen shots I took of it:

As I'm sure a majority of people on here will tell you, putters are extremely personal. There is no "right" or "wrong" putter. You have to experiment with them and go with your gut feeling on what you like. Just don't fall into the trap by thinking that just because one putter is more expensive or have a better known name that it is a better putter for you. It's not about which one looks the nicest or cost the most; it's about which one gives you the most confidence to put the ball in the hole.

What course in Houston was it? You should at least take your complaint to the pro shop. All they can say is no.

I take practice swings, but it changes depending on what shot it is I'm taking: Driving - I'll take 3-4 swings at about 50% just to make sure I have the correct feeling on my transition into my downswing. I have a bad habit of coming over the top, and doing this helps me get the proper feel I need to make a good swing. Irons - I'll take maybe one or two 50% swings just to loosen up, but that's abotu it. Pitch/Chip - I'll sometime take a dozen practice swings just to make sure I get the proper feel and tempo I need. All these shots for me are all based on touch to get the right distance, and I mentally can't hit the ball until I feel like I've got the shot figured out. Putting - I never make a practice stroke. Ever.

If you are a 7.0 handicap like what you have listed, that sure is a damn good accomplishment. Not only that but you had two double-bogies yet still kept your cool instead of blowing up after them. Way to go!!!!

That's a really good point. People I have met that are extremely rich tend to be very nice and understanding; the people that are stretching every penny to afford the lease on their BMW and the interest-only mortgage on their McMansion tend to be the jerks that you'll run into. Another thing I've noticed too is that all the jerks tend to gravitate toward each other and are all always in a group (never see them by themselves). Self-esteem issues maybe?

WHile I do agree that there are a bunch of jerks that play golf, I think the proportions you describe can be applied to almost everything else in life. There are going to be stuck-up, arrogant people everywhere you go, and there really isn't all that much you can do about it other than ignore them.

A couple things: - Every golfer that averages 250 yards off the tee will eventually hit a 300+ yard drive "once every 50 swings" mainly because every so often you'll have a hard/fast, downhill fairway that you are hitting onto and you just happened to hit the ball on the screws with your typical 110% driver swing. It does NOT mean that is what you average. I consider myself an extremly long hitter, and I average about 290 off the tee (120+ mph SS). Every so often my SkyCaddie will tell me I hit a drive 325-330, but it has so much more to do with the particular situation than it does my normal, "average" swing. - I don't think it's so much that people think you are lying as it is that they think you don't know what your average distances really are. Most people think they hit their irons about 10-15 yards further than their true averages. Most of the time it's because the average golfer swings his irons at 100% trying to hit it as far as possible. Seeing as they almost never hit the sweet spot with this type of swing, thier distances are all over the place; needless to say the only distance they think of during club selection is that one perfectly struck ball they hit two years ago that caried that distance. Average distances should include mis-hits and not just perfectly struck shots.

If you are a 20 handicap, it will affect you a bit, but seeing as I'm assuming you aren't that consistent with your irons I doubt you'd notice all that much of a difference. It wouldn't hurt to have them checked though to see how far they're off from what you need for your swing.

I wouldn't trust those type of charts for fitting. All those charts say I should be 2-3* upright, but everytime I've ever hit off a lie board it says I should be 2* flat. The only way to know what your lie angle should be is by hitting off of a lie board.

I've worn contacts since I was 14 years old (I'm 26), and to this day I have to hold my eyelid open with both hands to put my contacts in because I can't open my eyes wide enough AND I can't stop from blinking long enough to put them in. It's definitely worth the hassle though.

This morning while watching the British Open coverage I was going over my round from yesterday afternoon. I shot 81 (which for that course from those tees is ok), but my fairways hit and GIR were a bit "off" to say the least. I hit only 1 fairway but hit 13 GIR. Granted I hit all the par 3's (there are 5) and missed the fairway on all the par 5's but still hit the GIR on all of them after laying up (there are 3). I also had 5 par 4's where I missed the fairway but still had a decent shot at the green. Is it just me or the spread between FW/GIR a little off?

I depends on many different factors. Just because two courses have similar CR/slope does not mean they will be of equal difficulty to you and your game, and sometimes you might even end up playing better from a set of tees that have a higher CR/slope. Take my home course here in AR as an example. The white tees play 70.5/131 (6000 yard, par 70), and the blue tees play 72.4/140 (6400 yards). If you look at my scores (not talking differentials but actual scores), I play significantly better from the blues. My main strength is my distance, and playing from the white tees I have to shape my driver off the tee and hit a near-perfect shot just to keep the ball in play on about half the holes. If I move back to the blues, I can just hit my drives up the gut of the fairway and not have to worry about it. It just depends on how each set of tees compliments/contrasts your game that determines how each's difficulty will compare. On a different note, you have to look at the CR in relation to the slope to determine what the difference in difficulty really is. All slope decribes is the difference between what a scratch golfer and a bogey golfer (~20 hdcp) should shoot. For example, two courses with similar slopes could have scratch/bogey differences of 70/95 and 78/103 and still maintain the same slope. Obviously the latter course would be more difficult, but if all you are doing is looking at the slope and ignoring the CR you won't be able to tell that there is a significant difference in difficulty between the two. Also, if you are a lower handicap the slope doesn't apply to you nearly as much as the course rating does.

I wear contacts when I play golf. If I'm outside I pretty much always have my sunglasses on (macular degeneration runs in my family, and one of the best ways to help prevent it is to always protect your eyes from UV rays), so wearing my glasses outside really isn't an option. The contacts I have are toric lenses; they are weighted on one end to orient them the correct way. Because of my astigmatism and the resulting "flatness" of the front of my eyes, I have some brand of contacts that basically suction themselves to my eyes, and because of that they dry out very, very easily. Compound that with my bad allegies, and I can't see crap come afternoon-time. with my glasses, my orientation just is off compared to my contacts. I don't know why, but it just is. I know I could probably try to play with my glasses, but I'd rather have my sunglasses on and have everything look like I'm staring through waxpaper than not have my sunglasses on and have by balance be off.

I have both a 15* fairway wood and a 15* hybrid, and I swap one out for the other depending on what course I'm playing. The reason for that is I hit the 3 wood a lot better off the tee than I do the hybrid but I hit the hybrid off the fairway better than I do the tee. Between the teo, the wood goes a bit further (265ish vs. 250ish). If I'm playing a course where I'll have chances at going at the green on par 5's (no immediate trouble around the green), I'll carry the hybrid. The course I play at up here in AR has trouble guarding all the par 5's so I never go for any in two. As for what you are looking for, you really need to look at what you are going to use the club for an not just swap something in because someone on here tells you that you should. If you are only going to use the club once every few months, don't bother changing anything. The only person that's going to know what you need is you. Oh, and.... Hook 'Em!!

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One thing you'll want to look into before buying anything is to see what type of toe hang fits your putting style. If you have a straight-back-straight-through stroke, you'll want something that is face balanced. If you have a very pronounced "arc" stroke (inside-square-inside), you'll want something with a lot of toe hang like the putter you quoted. Most "Newport" putters you'll run into have a plumber's neck on them, which is good for strokes in between the two extremes. If you don't know what type of stroke you have, instead think about your typical misses. If you tend to pull puts, you might have too much toe hang. If you tend to push puts, you might not have enough toe hang. The way you tell toe hang is to balance the putter on your finger along the shaft and to see how the face "hangs" on its own. The face of a face-balanced putter will stay parallel to the ground, the face of a plumber's neck will hang at about a 45* angle to the ground (4:30), and the face on a flow-neck putter like the one you linked to will hang near vertial (about 5:15-5:30).

The only way ESC affects my game is when I speed up play on holes where I'm 99% sure I'll be taking a double bogey. Other than that, I play every holes as if ESC doesn't exist.

The arguement was never made that a golf ball's compression is "irrelivant" (spelled "irrelevant" in case you were wondering) but instead that judging a ball's performance based solely upon compression (as you did and still are doing) is "irrelivant". It might not have been said exactly like that in a way you can quote and rebuttle to, but it'd be nearly impossible for someone to not see that if they read what was being said. As for the car analogy, golf balls might be the same weight and size, but there are MANY, MANY, MANY variables that all dramatically affect how a ball will perform. Simply because you are able to point out that golf ball is not identical to a car doesn't mean you know what you are talking about.