Lot # 143: Ping Scottsdale 69 Putter

Starting Bid: $125.00

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Item was in Auction "Fall 2020",
which ran from 11/4/2020 12:00 PM to
11/21/2020 8:00 PM



Showing little to no use, this Ping Scottsdale 69 Putter is about as clean as they come. The 36" shaft is original as is the Golf Pride Line Rite square grip and grip collar.  This putter also has the famed Ping double angle grip, where the shaft under the grip is bent back towards the golfer and away from the target when the golfer is addressing the ball. This bend would actually help the golfer square up the putter head and keep it square as it moved through the ball. It worked so well that even Jack Nicklaus used a Ping putter with the double angle grip, until the USGA ruled against against croquet putters and and shafts with any kind of bend! These bends, created by either Karsten or his son John (Ping's current CEO), were installed one club at a time, after the head had been shafted.

The genesis of Karsten's double angle grip is covered in great detail in Chapter 3 "The Bent is Mean" in And The Putter Went Ping. His run in with the USGA over the angled grips is included in Chapter 4.

John Barnum used a Ping 69 putter to win the 1962 Cajun Classic and become the first golf pro to use a Ping putter to win a PGA Tour event.

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