Ping Golf Born Out Of Putting Frustration
July 10th, 2007Based on the sound the golf ball made when it was hit by his newly designed putter, Karsten Solheim named his custom-made invention Ping. The engineer from General Electric had been frustrated with his putting game, blaming it on the putters available in the late 1950’s so he designed his own, giving birth to Ping Golf equipment.
Working in his garage in 1959, the Redwood City, California resident designed the Ping 1A putter with a heel-toe weight, setting the golf equipment world on its ear. Sports Illustrated fell in love with the sound the putter made when used, and Ping Golf was moved to Phoenix, Arizona where it is headquartered today. After resigning from GE in 1967, Solheim continued for the first few years making his putters individually by hand.
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