The Anser putter is arguably one of the most iconic and revolutionary pieces of golf equipment ever made. It changed putter design forever and without it, Ping wouldn’t be the same company it is today.
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Solheim Interview
Its historical and sentimental value is not lost on Ping CEO John Solheim who worked on the original models with his father, and Ping founder,Karsten, in their garage in 1966.
So 50 years on, John Solheim embarked on a mission to create 1,550 near-identical replicas of the original Ansers using the same two moulds his father and brother created. There will be 775 putters in each mould.
“I’m grinding everyone of them myself,” he said. “I wanted there to be a part of me in every one just like there was with the originals.
These models will be very special clubs. My dad made the original mould in our garage just outside of Phoenix. The second mould my brother machined but then my dad finished it and it’s slightly different.
“Both models have been very successful on tour and these are the putters that I worked on in the garage before we moved into a building of our own and took them from raw casting to completed putters”.