Ping Anser Gold Putter Award

Derek Murray with John Solheim

We've been busy making some interior changes to the Tour Truck so we can house the new custom fitting equipment for the coming season. With our nine suppliers onboard, we can offer a wide product choice to our customers - to be honest it's a lot of club heads and shaft solutions to organise. Recently, we re-discovered a memento of our hardwork - our Ping Anser Gold Putter has been quietly sparkling in a glass case, just waiting for it's story to be told.

In 2002 Derek Murray, ForeGolf received the Ping Anser Gold Putter Award, for outstanding services to custom golf. What began as a way of saying thank you has grown into perhaps the most valuable collection of putters in the world. In the 1970s, Karsten Solheim was looking for a unique way to thank and reward the professionals for using a Ping Putter en route to victory. He decided to commemorate each victory by creating two gold-plated replicas of the winning putter. One he gave to the champions, the other he kept at the company's Phoenix, Arizona headquarters. Both were engraved with the professional's name and the name of the tournament he or she won. As more professionals continued to win with Ping Putters, his collection quickly grew, requiring several moves into increasingly larger rooms. There are now more than 2,300 Gold Putters in what is referred to as "The Gold Putter Vault". Derek Murray is one of only a few people in the world, who haven't won a golf tournament, but who have been awarded a Gold Putter.

The award is in recognition of his services to the golfing community and his unique philosophy that has brought so much joy to golfers who play with his custom made clubs