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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00:33most 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
01:06it's cavity back design produced a lot of forgiveness again hadn't been seen
01:10before in putters now this thing went on to win multiple multiple tour events
01:15over 500 tour events 19 major victories recorded and even the great Tiger Woods
01:21has won all 15 of his majors with an answer style putter albeit wrapped up in
01:25a Scotty Cameron bow so in terms of the looks of this putter it's actually really
01:29hard for me to create a discussion on it because it's just so familiar it's like an
01:34old friend 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 this
01:51modern-day equivalent the answer PLD and now we're gonna hit a few putts and
01:55find out if 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
02:15here up and over it's here so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit six putts with each to
02:20find out how they perform from long range see if there's any more forgiveness
02:22or stability in the newer model for example and then I'm gonna add each putt
02:27up and get a total distance away from the hole for those six putts and we'll
02:31compare afterwards so let's get going I'm gonna start with the PLD first felt
02:41really solid nice and soft actually it's on a great line that's a promising start
02:48it is milling on the face of this PLD whereas the original answer doesn't have
02:52that milling so that actually felt really soft so it'll be interesting to see how
02:55that compares
03:00that bobbled a bit and a little bit under here I think it's doing okay
03:05probably about six feet that which isn't horrendous that's a little bit more like it
03:15again on a decent line it's jumping around a little bit but that's pretty tight I'm
03:19happy about I'm gonna get those and go again
03:32okay that was a decent first effort with the PLD my first three totaled 13 feet and
03:37my second bunch was 11 feet so I got a bit better so the overall total to beat
03:42for the answer is 24 feet let's see if I can do it
03:49so looking down behind the ball it's a really really almost identical profile
03:52it's just the color that's different
03:58noticeably different feel
04:01so the soft milling of the face it's a bit harsher off the face of this
04:05there's a little slot in the bottom as well makes it a little bit tingier which
04:07is actually quite nice that was really well on line that was
04:15another decent putt there if it rolls out a bit okay happy with those
04:26and that's got every chance if it misses that ball miss it
04:31oh just shy I'll see how far those are and I'll come back and hit three more
04:47well that was very interesting so that was actually a dead tie so it's 24 feet on
04:53the first one and then on my first go with the original answer I was 11 and a
04:57half feet was my total distance and my second effort there was 12 and a half
05:01feet so that comes to precisely 24 feet so it's a dead tie from long range so we're
05:06gonna have to split these somehow so let's go and hit some short putts
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05:24so I've come here to eight feet away and that is the PGA Tour average point
05:30where it becomes 50-50 pros on the PGA Tour hold 50% of the eight foot putts
05:35so anything above that with this would be really really successful
05:38so I'm going to hit 10 with this 10 with that and we're going to see the
05:41difference let's go
05:46it's just outside the right
05:51and just like that all right we're going to speed it up and I'm going to hit all
05:5410 let's see what we get
06:07so
06:24that was nine out of ten from that 50 50 range i have to say i'm
06:28very very pleased with that let's see what the prd can do
06:47so
07:02oh
07:03oh
07:08so that is for the pld seven out of ten so on the short range putts the original answer can
07:16still very
07:17very 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
07:43of a crude
07:44test but it's kind of the best you can do with a putter on the longer putts it was identical
07:49they
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
08:04with the pld performed well as well but unbelievably the original answer took it so for 67.99 you can
08:12get
08:12a piece of history and a piece of history that still really performs
