Went shopping with my wife today, and decided to stop at our Eddie Watts store and poke in their used club section. Played yesterday and was unhappy with my putting (lotsa 3 jacks) and my sand play left a lot to be desired. Hit 10 of 14 fairways and fairways and wedges were good to my credit. So I was looking at a set of Ping G400 irons (used) for $500, but couldn't pull the trigger. So instead, I got a used TM Ghost Spider putter for $ 65, and a Cally BB sand wedge for $10. Life is good, and no noise from the old girl.

    Good strategy. It's like the daughter that comes home from her 1st semester at college and tells her parent she's pregnant. They react in total shock and grief until she tells them that she's kidding and that actually she failed 2 classes. They say "oh thank God!" 🙂

    Bigborgel
    My "theory" on changing putters has evolved......I used to use a putter until I had a couple of bad rounds with it, and then I would begin to find all kind of things wrong with it, so I could change. Then we started spending a month in Florida about 4 years ago. We are near Orlando, where they have an Edwin Watts, a PGA Super Store, and a couple of other golf stores. I came home with two new and fairly expensive putters in those 4 years. They met with a similar fate as every other putter I ever owned! The one has become my backup putter, and I just traded the other one in for a new golf bag at the store it came from (it pays to save receipts, BTW!).

    What changed my mind about expensive putters was an experience I had back home last summer. I was in a Play It Again Sports on a "scouting trip," grabbed a bronze Rossie II out of a bag of old used putters, and this baby sat perfectly to my eye. It had a price tag of $15 on it....I offered them $10.....settled for $12! I have putted lights out with that putter ever since!! When I told my golfing buddy I had bought another putter, he gave me an eye roll, and I told him, "From now on, my only new putters will come from Play It Again Sports!!"

        One of the guys who has competed regularly for the championship at our course has a putter he paid 75 cents for at a garage sale. The thing still has some flecks of yellow paint on it. We think it was a putter someone stole from a miniature golf place. He's purchased Scottys and Odysseys and nothing works for him like the 75 cent garage sale gem.
        I've got an old Anser 4 back in the bag and putting extremely well with it... while my Scotty resides in the basement.

        fatshot It probably helps that the putter you picked up at PIAS is one of the best putters ever made, though.

          fatshot the PIAS around here would probably be asking new, retail for that used putter with no haggling. They're a bunch of clueless idiots when it comes to golf gear. Owned and ran by a woman, btw.