LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Karsten Solheim: Designs
built 218 days ago
In 1962 Solheim received a patent on the heel-toe weighting design on his putter, but continued to work on improving the design while ... beginning to develop irons. Because he lacked access to a wind tunnel, he had a son drive him 100 miles an hour in the desert in order to hold his prototype irons out the window to check the drag caused by a typical swing. In January 1966 an idea for a new putter came to him in a flash of inspiration. Unable to wait to get the concept down on paper he grabbed a record sleeve and sketched the design. His wife Louise thought the new putter should be called "answer," a name that Solheim liked but that possessed too many letters to fit on the club. She then suggested that the "w" be left out.
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Phoenix, Arizona: John Solheim loved the engineering genius of his father, Karsten. He was consumed-even as a youngster-with the idea of helping his dad design and manufacture the best their ingenuity could produce.
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It was in 1966 that Solheim had an idea for a new putter design and using the sleeve of an old 78-RPM record sketched his idea. When his wife came up with the name of the new putter as being the “answer” to putting problems, he found it would not fit on the club so it was shortened to “Anser” and became what is now considered the standard for putters.
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