By: Performance Golf | Duration: 00:09:05

Video Description

The putter is the most personal club in your bag and the one you use more than any other. Yet for most of golf’s 500-year history, putter design barely evolved. Shafted in the heel, weight behind the shaft axis, fighting the player as much as helping them. Only five putters in history are really responsible for changing that.

In this episode of Innovation, Chris McGinley walks through the five most important putters ever made and tells the story of how putting design has evolved from 1903 to today. With nearly 40 years in club design, Chris breaks down what made each one a breakthrough, why it mattered at the time, and how each one paved the way for the next.

The story moves from the banned-but-revolutionary Schenectady, to Karsten Solheim’s iconic Ping Anser sketched on the back of a record sleeve in 1966, to the rise of the mallet, to the zero torque movement led by L.A.B. Golf, and finally to where the engineering has landed today: the Performance Golf RS1.
If you’ve ever wondered why putters look the way they do, or why more than 50% of tour pros now putt with a mallet, this is the watch. It’s a deep dive into the engineering, the design philosophy, and the breakthroughs that finally caught up to the most personal club in the bag.

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