Putters: art or science? The minds that make the most important club in the bag mull one of golf's eternal mysteries

Golf Digest, Dec, 2002 by Mike Stachura

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KEVIN BURNS
Chief Designer
Kevin Burns Golf

"The successful putter designs not only feel great and roll great, but really, they're beautiful. So I think it's more art than science. Let's face it, anybody can machine a putter. But the finish work is the beauty. Sure, there are certain parameters that have to be met in making a good putter, but anything over and above that is just a waste of time. If you can make something where someone gets fired up about the way it looks, then it gives someone more confidence. And as we all know, putting is all about confidence."

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SCOTTY CAMERON
Chief Designer
Scotty Cameron by Titleist

"The beauty is that putter design today can be a perfect marriage between the science and the art. It's understanding what you need to make a putter work and then creating the art around that idea. I have theories, but I need to prove them into fact in the studio here before they end up in a design. There's no doubt that everybody borrows from everybody. It's a form of flattery if you do it a little better than the next guy. But if you do it a little worse, that's bastardizing."

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