![]() ![]() The actual shaft in the Caliber Golf putter is hidden ingeniously inside the hockey stick. the stick) extends the length of the shaft, so it conforms to the rules because a putter grip may have a non-circular cross section. If the stick was the putter shaft, it would be nonconforming because it is not “symmetrical on all axes.” But the grip (i.e. If you’re wondering whether a hockey stick that doubles as a putter conforms to the United States Golf Association’s equipment rules, the answer is yes. For people who have trouble on the greens because they are too “handsy” or have the putting yips, the Wrights’ putter makes a lot of sense. Their design workshop is in the back of Tim’s wife’s dental office and the putting lab is in a converted garage next door.īut they think they’re on to something - a better and easier way to putt, using the big muscles of the shoulders to make the putting motion instead of the wrists and hands. The brothers are working on a shoestring budget. The Wrights’ company, Caliber Golf, is just getting off the ground. But if you read the green right, this takes your hands out of it. No one is going to read the green for you. “I was a 14 handicap until I came up with this,” Tim said. Brothers Tim and Chip Wright, who have a hockey background - their father, Chris Wright, played on the University of Wisconsin’s 1973 NCAA championship team and their grandfather was a practice goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks - have come up with a way to connect any putter head to a hockey stick, turning it into an effective putting instrument.īefore you roll your eyes and scroll down to the next story, hear them out. ![]()
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