Old v New Ping Anser Putters | Retro Review - video Dailymotion

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In the third episode of Retro Review, Joe Ferguson is throwing it way back to when one of the original Ping Anser putters was created - it went on to become one of the most iconic and successful golf club designs in history, but can it still compete with its modern day equivalent? We took an original Ping Anser and tested it against Ping's latest PLD Anser to find out...

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00:00Welcome back to another retro review from Golf Monthly and this time we've

00:04gone back we've gone way back and I've got an absolute titan of the putting

00:10game I have got the ping answer now this thing has won over 500 tour events so

00:18I'm really looking forward to seeing if it's still got the magic on the greens

00:22now we've teamed up with golf clubs for cash one of the leading retailers of

00:26pre-loved equipment and they provided us with some absolute gems to test so

00:30please go and check them out in the description below now this is one of the

00:33most iconic golf clubs of all time and we picked it up for the bargain price of

00:3867.99 now with some putters touching the 400 pound mark and beyond that don't have

00:43the major heritage that this thing does we could have a bargain on our hands now

00:47the answer was designed by ping founder Karstom Solheim in 1966 and just about

00:53every putter that's been designed since features some elements that come from

00:57the ping answer it was the first of its kind it had an offset hosel which give

01:02you a really clean clear view look of the face that hadn't been seen before and

01:06its cavity back design produced a lot of forgiveness again hadn't been seen before

01:11in putters now this thing went on to win multiple multiple tour events over 500

01:16tour events 19 major victories recorded and even the great Tiger Woods has won all

01:2215 of his majors with an answer style putter albeit wrapped up in a Scotty

01:26Cameron bow so in terms of the looks of this putter it's actually really hard for

01:30me to create a discussion on it because it's just so familiar it's like an old

01:34friend it's the really is the blueprint that all of the other modern putters

01:38have been designed around whether it's the Scotty Cameron Newport line whether

01:42it's the Odyssey numbers one and two they all come back to this putter so in

01:47terms of testing and seeing if it still stands up over time I brought its modern

01:51day equivalent the answer PLD and now we're gonna hit a few putts and find out

01:55if it still has the magic right so I really do want to see how this

01:59performance stacks up against its modern day equivalent it's actually

02:02really difficult to find a fair test for putting so I'm gonna do a couple of

02:06things I found out here at the beautiful Paliero golf course in Madeira here on

02:10the 17th green and I found a really difficult 80 foot putt really long narrow green here up and over it's here

02:16so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit six putts with each to find out how they

02:20perform from long range see if there's any more forgiveness or stability in the

02:24newer model for example and then I'm gonna add each putt up and get a total

02:28distance away from the hole for those six putts and we'll compare afterwards so

02:32let's get going I'm gonna start with the PLD first

02:36felt really solid nice and soft actually it's on a great line that's a promising

02:47start it is milling on the face of this PLD whereas the original answer doesn't

02:52have that milling so that actually felt really soft so it'll be interesting to see

02:55how that compares that bobbled a bit and a little bit under here I think it's doing

03:04okay probably about six feet that which isn't horrendous that's a little bit more

03:14like it again on a decent line it's jumping around a little bit but that's pretty

03:19tight I'm happy about I'm gonna get those and go again

03:31okay that was a decent first effort with the PLD my first three totaled 13 feet

03:37and my second bunch was 11 feet so I got a bit better so the overall total to

03:42beat for the answer is 24 feet let's see if I can do it

03:49looking down behind the ball it's a really really almost identical profile

03:52it's just the color that's different noticeably different feel so the soft

04:02milling of the face it's a bit harsher off the face of this there's a little

04:05slot in the bottom as well makes it a little bit tingier which is actually quite

04:08nice that was really well on line that was

04:13another decent putt there if it rolls out a bit okay happy with those

04:20that's got every chance if it misses that ball miss it

04:30oh just shy I'll see how far those are and I'll come back and hit three more

04:35wow that was very interesting so that was actually a dead tie so it's 24 feet on the

04:53first one and then on my first go with the original answer I was 11 and a half

04:58feet was my total distance and my second effort there was 12 and a half feet so

05:01that comes to precisely 24 feet so it's a dead tie from long range so we're gonna

05:06have to split these somehow so let's go and hit some short putts

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05:17of our upcoming videos also comment down below if you ever played the ping answer

05:21putter where there's anything else you want us to review that'd be great so I've

05:25come here to eight feet away and that is the PGA Tour average point where it

05:30becomes 50-50 pros on the PGA Tour hold 50% of the eight foot putts so anything

05:35above that with this would be really really successful so I'm gonna hit 10

05:39with this 10 with that and we're gonna see the difference let's go

05:46it's just outside the right

05:51just like that all right we're gonna speed it up and I'm gonna hit all 10 let's

05:55see what we get

06:02that was nine out of ten from that 50-50 range I'm have to say I'm very very pleased with that let's see what the PLD can do

06:31here

06:36what you

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06:50so that is for the PLD seven out of ten so on the short range putts the original answer can still

07:16very very much cut the mustard right well I really enjoyed that like all of these retro reviews

07:22that was actually a really nice trip down memory lane and actually quite nostalgic I felt like

07:27savvy at points there hitting those putts which is really really cool but the point of this video

07:32was actually to see whether this could stack up against a modern day equivalent and the answer

07:36forgive the pun is a resounding yes on the longer putts that I hit and I know it was kind of a crude

07:44test but it's kind of the best you can do with a putter on the longer putts it was identical they

07:49were both 24 feet in total the feel was very different this was a little harsher a little

07:54tingier but I actually quite liked that feel to be perfectly honest and then as you saw from the

07:59shorter putts I was an absolute machine with this nine out of ten from eight foot I was chuffed to

08:04bits with the PLD performed well as well but unbelievably the original answer took it so for

08:10$67.99 you can get a piece of history and a piece of history that still really performs

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