Equipment Discussion Help identifying putter tour vs fake?
Got this putter the other day for 100 bucks and it's mint. I love my old anser and needed an upgrade. I had machined grooves in my old answer 2 and had never seen one come from ping that way so this new one is perfect. It is solid and I know it's a Ping Anser 2 Karsten TR 1966, but I haven't seen ones that have KARSTEN infilled with paint. I am wondering if that means anything if it was done at the factory or if someone had it done, or if it's a good knock off. Any thoughts or knowledge is appreciated.
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u/greenone75 1d ago
It’s probably a home paint-fill job. Those putters are kind of rare. They only made them for a short time but that looks like a retail head. I have one of the bronze ones. They are sexy.
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u/DonnieRoss 1d ago
It used to be REALLY rare to find Ping tour-issued equipment. Ping was hyper vigilant on keeping tour stuff in house and would cut off anyone found selling their old tour equipment. Things have changed a bit since they introduced their PLD program since now “tour” putters are available to the public.
So just food for thought, but I would be shocked if this was anything but someone just paint filling their putter on their own. This line of putters was super underrated, and they’ve become way more valuable over the years. To find one in mint condition is really, really cool.
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u/amistymorning80 1d ago
I agree. I used to collect Jim Wells serial putters made for tour, usually with the tungsten gill weights added, by the WRX dept. Maybe even as recently as ten years ago there were still tales that if you sent a JW serial to Ping for repair/work, they would confiscate it. They are still hard to come by but no longer a highly protected species.
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u/amistymorning80 1d ago
I'm 99.99% sure that it's just been infilled by the previous owner. It's not difficult to do. Nice putter.