| I've seen the fancy ads, I've read the golf magazines, | | | | Fast forward to 2008, and Scotty Cameron putters |
| I've even gone into the sporting goods store and | | | | have been used to win more than 500 worldwide |
| played around on the little putting green with all of the | | | | tournaments. A sterling track record, to say the least, |
| shiny new putters. For some reason though, I still | | | | but I was still not convinced. Surely it had to be the |
| wasn't buying into the idea that a putter could make | | | | players and their personal touch with those putters that |
| that much difference in my golf game. I, like most | | | | turned them into gold on the green. After hearing so |
| golfers, would go to the driving range and practice my | | | | much, I decided to try out a Scotty Cameron putter for |
| drive for hours per week, thinking that if I could drive as | | | | myself. |
| far as Tiger Woods, then my handicap would lower | | | | I decided to try out a Scotty Cameron Newport, the |
| for sure. Little did I know that Tiger Woods had a | | | | same putter that Tiger Woods plays. A few buddies |
| secret weapon hiding in his golf bag. | | | | and I headed out to the country club on a sunny |
| Scotty Cameron had made clubs in his mother-in-law's | | | | Saturday afternoon in October, and I did not tell |
| garage for years when he opened Cameron Golf | | | | anyone that I was trying out a new putter. The first |
| International to little fanfare. There was a lot of | | | | two holes went as can be expected, I got a bogey on |
| competition in the industry, and golf companies like | | | | the first hole and a double bogey on the second hole. |
| Titleist, Nike, and Callaway were the big names in town | | | | Nothing too impressive. But then, on the third hole, I took |
| (and still are today). Scotty Cameron took a different | | | | it to the green in 3 strokes, and had to sink a forty foot |
| approach to making golf clubs. Because of his limited | | | | putt for par. I pulled the Scotty Cameron Newport |
| resources, he did a large part of the crafting of his | | | | putter out of my bag, took a deep breath, and swung |
| clubs by hand, which gave his putters a finish rivaling | | | | away. I could scarcely believe my eyes as the ball |
| those of his big-name competitors. | | | | rolled up the green in a straight line, then circled around |
| Then, in 1993, lightning struck for Scotty Cameron. One | | | | to the left and into the cup. |
| of his putters was used to win The Masters. Things | | | | Since that first October day that I tested out the |
| moved quickly for Scotty after that, the putters were | | | | Scotty Cameron putter, I have purchased three of |
| flying out of the door as fast as he could create them. | | | | them for my collection. They aren't a magic bullet, they |
| But things really picked up a year later, in 1994, when | | | | won't turn you into Tiger Woods overnight. But my |
| Scotty Cameron was approached by Peter Kostis | | | | friends still swear that I've never been as good of a |
| and told that Titleist was interested in his company to | | | | golfer as I am when I'm playing a putter made by |
| design putters for them. | | | | Scotty Cameron. |