PING Just Blew Up the Golf Market Again - Here's How a Garage Putter Started It All

#americanfairways #golf #documentary PING just blew up the golf market again: its eye-tracking Scottsdale TEC putter won the United States Open Championship at Shinnecock Hills in its first season. Here's how a garage putter built by a General Electric engineer in 1959 started it all. Karsten Solheim couldn't putt, so he measured why. In his Redwood City garage he built the PING 1A - the putter that rang only when you hit the middle - then drew the Anser on a record sleeve in an Arizona garage, survived a putter ban, fitted irons to golfers' bodies with the color code, and took the rule makers to court over the Eye 2's grooves. This year his grandson's company put Tobii eye-tracking glasses on golfers, and Wyndham Clark two-putted from about fifty feet on the 72nd hole to win. The story of the measurement nobody else in golf would take - and what it put in your bag. Do you still have a PING in your bag or your garage? Tell us in the comments which one, who gave it to you, and where you're watching from. CHAPTERS 00:00 A white putter on the last green 01:16 The sweet-spot alarm 02:01 The engineer who couldn't putt 03:21 Two sugar cubes 03:50 The garage in Redwood City 04:26 The butcher-paper test 05:13 "It said ping" 06:27 The patent, and no April Fool 07:11 $17.50 and a tap on the window 08:12 An order for 100 putters 08:57 Phoenix, and the first Tour win 10:05 The Anser, drawn on a record sleeve 11:39 The first ban 12:10 Boros, Archer and the Masters 13:24 Cast irons and the color code 15:16 Everybody copies the Anser 15:39 The Eye2 and the square groove 17:08 The $100 million lawsuit 18:25 The settlement, and your Eye2s 19:33 What the fight cost 20:39 3,000 gold putters 21:05 The Solheim Cup 22:10 Where golfers look 23:43 Science or marketing? 24:02 Reitan, then Wyndham Clark 25:05 Two putts from fifty feet 26:26 Why PING keeps measuring 27:03 What it put in your bag