Lot # 120: An Original 1966 Ping Scottsdale Anser

Category: Putters

Starting Bid: $900.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Summer 2020",
which ran from 7/8/2020 12:00 PM to
7/25/2020 8:00 PM



Designed by Karsten Solheim and made in his Paradise Valley, Arizona garage in 1966, the "Scottsdale" Anser changed the golf world forever. It gained popularity with lightening speed. After the Anser design patent expired, golf manfucaturers let loose with a flood of knock-offs and copies to capitalize on the gigantic demand.   Even today, 54 years later, ever major clubmaker continues to put new variations on Karsten's theme on the market.

When Karsten moved to Pardise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix in 1960, he set up a Post Office box in Scottsdale in order to differential his business address from another putter maker operating in Phoenix—John Reuter, Jr., the maker of the Bulls-Eye line.  Karsten marked all of his clubs with the Scottsdale address so anybody who saw another golfer using a PING putter would know where to write to place an order. in late 1966, Karsten moved from his garage to a small commercial building in Phoenix. He then changed the address on the back of the Anser to his new Phoenix address. Today, collectors call the early putters made with the Scottsdale address a "Scottsdale Anser."

The Scottsdale Anser offered here has its original square Golf Pride Line Rite grip with its original PING grip collar.  When making putters in the mid 1960s, Karsten provided a cholce of grips to his customers, and the square Line Rite was an option. Because not many golfers who ordered the earliest Ansers ordered one with a square grip, only a small number of the original Scottsdale Ansers have an original square grip. A great find!

This is an nice original example of the most copied putter in the history of golf. What is not to love?

 

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