Your history - more drivers or more putters

[2Down]

Putters vs drivers.

Where has your money gone?

For me putters. Had far more though my time in golf than drivers. I have about seven putters laying about right now but only two drivers and one of those is an old j33 head without a shaft. (It’s a someday project).

 

[ZAP]

Drivers for me by a Loooooooong ways. Sad really. Or not.

[CDLgolf]

Thats a really good question. At the moment I have 4 putters and 2 drivers. Over the last 25 years I'd have to say I've bought more drivers.

[The Mad Hacker]

I don't change clubs very often, but I've definitely had more Drivers than putters. Started out with a Mizuno T-Zoid, then moved to a Taylormade R580, a Taylormade Burner, an R15 and the current Callaway GBB Epic. During that same time, the putters have been the starter (Wilson Harmonized), and the current Rife 2 Bar Hybrid. I've tried a few other putters over the years, but nothing has knocked the Rife out of the bag.

[bird_4_3]

Drivers and it is not even close.

[platgof]

I would say 24 drivers and 12 putters thereabouts. Took a long time to find what I wanted. I am still looking all the time though, it's a disease, totally incurable. Now it is the wedges, and the SM7's have my eye for now!

[jvincent]

Drivers, not even close.

[JLew27]

I’m with you OP, I’ve had a lot more putters. I tend to find drivers I like and stick with them for years. Putters I will change just for the look of something else and just to tinker. Don’t have that urge with drivers for some reason.

[Yuck]

New driver every 8 to 10 years. Putters I cannot count that high. Guess what, I am a pretty good driver and a pitifully cr*ppy putter.

[gsrjc]

More drivers as I have a custom Bettinardi.

[nitram]

Drivers

[getitdaily]

Putters, but I change drivers more frequently...how does that make sense?

When I change putters I will go through 7-10 of them until I find my bride. Then I stick with my bride for a while. I've had 2 brides...an old scotty newport beach studio stainless. Took about 10 putters to find it and then played it for like 12 years. Current bride is a spider tour plumbers neck. It's been in the bag for 1.5 years now. Took about 8 putters to get to it, including a somewhat long term relationship with a 2ball fang.

Since 1996 I think I've had 10 drivers total. 4 in the last 4 years.

[Roejye]

I have purchased more drivers than I have putters. However I have more putters at my disposal than drivers. A big part of that is until recently all of my clubs have been inherited and my dad bought a bunch of putters when we started playing. I've purchased a couple drivers because at my home course on the lone par 5 there's a creek that was at driving range. I had a driver that was probably from a no name box set and I wanted to upgrade so I could clear the creek. I got a Taylormade r7 superquad and it performed well for me, but I was slightly worried about having a now 13 year old driver, so I was testing out some newer drivers for research and the sales clerk found a Taylormade r1 in the clearance bin for $20. I am hoping to game that this year.

I see a lot less putters available 2nd hand than I do drivers. I assume part of that is when someone finds a good putter they try to hold onto it, and probably part is how much money you can get by trade-in.

[mizuno player]

Drivers.

I've played the same model pitter for 20 years. Cameron Newport. I've had three different model years in that time span.

[Hat Trick]

Drivers - because the technology has changed so much since my Tony Penna persimmon driver (which I still have). I have only had four putters since 1978 - a Wilson something or other, Ping Anser 2, Ping Darby and now a Odyssey 2 Ball for the last 20 years.

[CKalma]

Drivers for sure. Ive only used 5 putters over 20 years of golf. I should have kept my previous putter, but of course I sold it to fund my next putter....

[RogerinNewZealand]

Over Two Years

Same Putter.

Drivers same two years

Ping G5 G20 i15 i20 Rapture

910 913 915 917 TMR7Quad

[Ghostwedge]

Putters have been strewn across the GW landscape. Greens are finicky, some putters feel better on fast and/or slow greens. I rotate a few, they know they can be replaced.

Never have more than two drivers (gamer n backup) total and complete trust has been earned once i find the right shaft/head combo.

 

 

[cwilk]

Drivers.

[Volnut]

Driver, by far.

[calfan36]

I've played for around 14 years now. Have had 3 drivers and 2 putters. My dad now uses my old putter and my first driver

[Albatross_Ace]

Putters. With how often these new drivers with thin faces and crowns break nowadays, I'm sure that'll change eventually though.

[skraly]

Putters out number drivers about 10 to 1.

[Ray Jackson]

Definitely drivers as have used the same putter for at least the last 5 years. In that time frame I've probably had 4 drivers.

[KevinKegman]

I have purchased 4 putters in a month. I have a problem. I sold one Scotty Phantom X 8.

[Boricua Golf]

Drivers by far, even though I have more putters than drivers at this time, I tend to change drivers every 2 years or so, putters, however, I don't tend to change often, since it's more of a "once you find it, why change it" type thing, my current gamer (Scotty) is staying in the bag for a long while, my current driver (G LST) is also staying in for a while (I do have the G400 LST and G410 LST heads), I get better overall performance with it than the other 2... 

[SBH9458]

Drivers. For sure.

[Malc]

Deffo drivers for me. Always looking for a blaster, especially as i'm getting older and starting to lose distance. Used to get the yips with a putter anyway so it did'nt really matter which flatstick i used. Tried everything to try an escape route. Think the only thing i did'nt go to was a long left handed backstryke with one eye closed.

[dekez]

Drivers for sure. I go 6 - 7 years before even thinking about a putter switch.

[MattyO1984]

It’s definitely drivers but not in a massively excessive way I wouldn’t say.

 

Since getting into golf seriously, I have had 9 drivers and 7 putters over the space of 22 years or so nothing excessive at all I wouldn’t say.