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
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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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05:21putter 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
06:31this one
06:33yeah
06:33do
06:37yeah
06:40yeah
06:45yeah
06:54yeah
06:57so 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 that
07:22was actually a really nice trip down memory lane and actually quite nostalgic I felt like Seve at
07:27points there hitting those putts which is really really cool but the point of this video was
07:32actually 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
08:10for 67.99 you can get a piece of history and a piece of history that still really performs
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