Ping Golf Clubs: The "anser" To Your Putting Problems
About five decades ago, an engineer named Karsten Solheim was playing golf. He was not very satisfied with his putting performance, so he tried creating a new putter. With his engineering background, he was soon able to put together a new putter that he found suitable. He tried it out on the ball, and the putt was perfect. As he hit the ball, the putter made a sound. Solheim did not know it yet, but he had just invented the great Ping golf club.
Solheim began using his new putter in public, and people encouraged him to sell Ping golf clubs to other players. The engineer soon became busy creating more and more Ping golf clubs to satisfy the demand. As the orders poured in, his shop became too small and he moved to Phoenix with his family. This is where he established a much larger shop for Ping golf clubs.
During this time, the Ping golf clubs have already become quite popular in golf circles everywhere. Sales were growing continuously with every week. But when the Ping golf clubs were featured in Sports Illustrated, that is when business became seriously big for Solheim. Ping golf clubs were suddenly all the rage, and golfers everywhere couldn’t wait to get their hands on a set of the pleasant-sounding putters.
Soon, Ping golf clubs were a regular fixture on the PGA tournaments. When the pro golfers toured in other countries, they brought along their different designs of Ping golf clubs and turned it into an international name.
Five years after Solheim moved to Arizona, he developed a new design and when his wife saw it, she called it the "answer" to putting problems. Solheim tried to name the club "Answer" but there were too many letters, so it actually ended up being named "Anser". Nobody questions the change in spelling, especially now that the Anser is regarded as the gold standard for putters everywhere.
Although many designs of the Ping golf clubs were very popular among golfers, only the Anser is acceptable to the USGA because of tournament rules. But even though it is the only member of the Ping golf club family that is approved by the USGA, it has been responsible for bringing many victories to a lot of pro golfers for many years now.
From its humble beginnings in an engineer's garage to being the world's top choice in putter equipments, Ping golf clubs have certainly gone a long way.
