www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

In sports, folks usually punch the air when they score a goal or sink a putt and then they clench their fist and shout "Yes!" In the putting world the legends of putter designers par excellence Scotty Cameron and Bettinardi are favourites among fans. While Odyssey and Ping sells an awful lot too. Have you heard about Harold Swash and Yes!? Yes! No? Yes. Yes! Golf entered the US market after Retief Goosen won his second US Open title using the same C-Groove putter he used in his earlier US Open victory. Harold Swash Harold Swash is a devotee of the science and art of putting. His other name is the "Putting Doctor". He has spent many many hours trying to produce something great then in 1995 he developed the most significant advance in putter technology. Every putter face force the ball to skip, skid and spin in the critical first few inches so he created what is called the C-Grove technology that makes a ball travel with an almost immediate forward roll, a strai...

I'm a sucker for inspirational stories of how people achieved great success from a humble beginning. It never failed to bring a tear to my eyes. It is all abut passion and in some cases obsession. Karsten Solheim (Ping) Have you heard the one of how Ping came about? About how a Norwegian immigrant Karsten Solheim who works in GE having unhappy situations with his putting then went on to toy with and finally developed a prototype putter with weights towards the back, the first of its kind in the world. He then established Karsten manufacturing in 1967 and promptly named his product Ping which was how it sounded when it made contact with the golf ball. He wanted to name it Answer, which was the answer to putting problems but the six letters could not fit in to the heel end of the perimeter weighting and his wife suggested to drop the "w" to get the same sounding name which gave birth to the Ping Anser putter. He could only sell a few units until Julius Boros won ...