Category: Retro Golf
Ping Anser Putter Review: The Godfather of Flatsticks (Respect Must Be Paid)
by Bang Average Golf’s Historian of Missed Opportunities. If Scotty Cameron is the guy who turns up in a sports car with custom paint and…
Ping A-Blade Putter Review: The Straight-Talking Slice of Flatstick History
by Bang Average Golf’s Archivist of Oddball Flatsticks and Historical Curiosities. Before Karsten Solheim gave us the Anser – arguably the most influential putter ever…
Original Ping Zing Putter Review: The Outsider That Outperformed Everyone
by Bang Average Golf’s Head of Cult Classics and Clutch Finishes. In the pantheon of flatsticks, some putters are loved for their looks, some for…
Ping AYD Putter Review: The Weird Uncle of the Family Who Actually Made Every Putt
by Bang Average Golf’s Curator of Forgotten Flatsticks and Surprise Brilliance Before Ping were shaping legends like the Anser or dishing out buttery bronze Zings,…
Original Ping Anser 5K Putter Review: The Blade That Wanted to Be a Mallet
by Bang Average Golf’s Archivist of Misunderstood Flatsticks. Long before “MOI” became golf’s favourite buzzword and everyone started swinging putters the size of air traffic…
Original RAM Zebra Putter Review: The Striped Sledgehammer That Shouldn’t Have Worked (But Did)
by Bang Average Golf’s Chief Curator of Retro Chaos Before milled faces and tour-pro-approved toe-hangs, there was the Zebra. Not just a putter. A statement….
Ping Scottsdale ‘Pickemup’ Putter Review
The “Pickemup” was part of the PING Scottsdale putter line (originally priced $129 to $159 on release) which featured 14 models. It came out around…
Open Memories – Nice Guy Phil, Faldo the Don, ‘Mr Norman’ and hating Tom Watson
I was 18 when the Open came to Royal Birkdale in 1991. I lived nearby so a group of mates and I went to all four rounds as well as some of the practice days earlier in the week. It didn’t cost us anything to get in as one of the lads knew a way in.