WHAT'S NEW IN OUR BAGS.Byline: The Register-Guard Here's our monthly look at what area golfers are buying, as reflected by sales over the past 90 days at Fiddler's Green For other uses, see . Fiddler's Green is the happy land imagined by sailors where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing and dancers who never tire. Golf Center, the highest-volume golf retailer in Oregon. This month, we look at the putter, the club that not only accounts for more strokes than any other, but is among the most often replaced. (A recent Golf Digest Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Advance Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. survey found the average golfer owns five putters.) Once upon a time, virtually all putters were blades. Now they come also in a variety of odd-looking "mallet mallet, n a hammering instrument. mallet, hard, n a small hammer with a leather-, rubber-, fiber-, or metal-faced head; used to supply force or to supplement hand force for the compaction of foil or amalgam and to seat cast " shapes. TOP SELLERS 1. Odyssey White Hot 2-ball Putter Price: $129.99 Sales pitch: Unique two-ball alignment pattern that touched off a putter revolution. 2. Titleist Cameron Studio Style Newport 2 Price: $239.99 Sales pitch: German stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. inlay inlay /in·lay/ (-la) material laid into a defect in tissue; in dentistry, a filling made outside the tooth to correspond with the cavity form and then cemented into the tooth. in·lay n. 1. , in a style good enough for Tiger Woods. 3. Nike OZ Black T130 Price: $129.99 Sales pitch: Soft-polymer insert provides true roll; perimeter weighting boosts stability. - Sources: Fiddler's Green Golf Center, Golf Digest 2006 Equipment issue. CAPTION(S): Top putters, clockwise from top: Titleist Cameron, Nike OZ, Odyssey 2-ball. |
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