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PING Golf Factory Tour

By Judy Hedding, About.com

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Something You Won't See on This PING Tour

PING Golf Factory Tour

Special Gold Putters

© 2008 Judy Hedding
You'll get a thorough introduction to the world of PING Golf on this free factory tour, but there's at least one thing you won't see --"the vault." What is it? That's where PING keeps some very special clubs.

Every time a pro golfer wins a tournament using a PING putter, the company makes two gold-plated replica putters, engraved with the golfer's name and the tournament name and date. One is sent to the golfer as a congratulatory memento. The other is kept in the vault. What if a professional golfer wins a major with a PING putter? Then it isn't just gold-plated, it's a solid gold putter head.

This tour group was very lucky to find that four gold putters were being made on this day. Although we tried, we couldn't convince them to let us put them away in the vault!

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