Comments on: Where’s your gamer been?

By: evan g

evan g — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:19:34 +0000

my lh 33.5 in studio stainless Newport 2.5 has helped me putt on the speedy greens of Oakmont country club which is within 5 minutes walking from my house.looking forward to a productive season as a sophomore in high school…plan on sinking some great putts! Scotty has turned a passion for putters into something truly amazing!

By: Doug Greenberg

Doug Greenberg — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:23:09 +0000

I played the Plantation course as well. I hit a 460 yard drive on 18 (not with cameron.) I still somehow got up and down for bogey making a great downhill slider for par in the setting sun after hitting my second into the hazard. The memorable hole for me was the 18th at Poipu. I horseshoed a 20 footer for eagle and taped in for an easy birdie and hit the club house for buffalo wings. Little known fact, the clubhouse at Poipu Bay makes some of the best hot wings anywhere!

By: Steve Lovelace

Steve Lovelace — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:33:52 +0000

I had my gamer on my honeymoon in October of 2003 and played Poipu Bay with my wife and the club pro the week after the Masters of Golf Championship had been played there. The course was in awesome condition and we had a blast.
More recently in February 2007, I won the president’s sales circle for the company I sell for and took the same putter, Newport Mil-Spec PP, we played the Plantation Course at Kapalua just after the Meredes-Benz Championship. I am happy to report that I Birdied #18 after missing a 30 footer for Eagle.

This putter is pretty special to me not just because it was my first Cameron, but because I purchased it online in 2000 while I was hospitalized for spinal meningitis. It was the carrot on the stick for me, meant to be my drive to get myself well enough to get back on the course. I had only played a few rounds with it before being told I needed a follow up back surgery due to complications from the meningitis and hardware from a back injury and surgery that I had back in 1983. My surgeon said that the outlook was grim, but I always knew I’d come out on top because I knew I had more rounds left in me, I was only 38 at the time. It may sound corny, but the putter came with me to the hospital and I used it as a walking aid after my surgery. I got many different looks from people, but received compliments in my choice of canes from the golfers that were on the floor when I make the rounds through the hallway during therapy. Despite a few physical complications caused from the surgery, lower extremity nerve damage and a limp, I still play routinely and even out-play most of my able bodied friends.
This was my first Cameron and is still my favorite out of 13 Cameron’s and dozens of headcovers now in my collection. Needless to say, these putters can hold a lot of memories for a lot of different reasons, and this is one special putter that is still used during every round of golf and still serves as a part time cane when the hills pose a challenge to an old golf dog like myself.

Thanks for providing the tool for my inspiration Scotty.

All the best,

Steve

By: Doug Greenberg

Doug Greenberg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:48:19 +0000

Scotty,

My gamer (new gamer) is a Newport 2 Studio Select that my wife just purchased for me on our honeymoon in Hawaii at the Poipu Bay pro shop. I promptly put it in play and birded 16 and 18. I couldn’t resist…I put a hawaii 2008 headcover on it as soon as I got home. My wife wanted me to have something special to always remember the trip by and she chose a scotty. Did I marry a special woman or what!? Anything special we can do to it in the custom shop to make it a one of a kind keepsake to go with the headcover?

By: Mike Heaberg

Mike Heaberg — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:00:13 +0000

My gamer has had a great Summer so far – Merion, Pine Valley, and Mid Ocean (Bermuda).

By: Michael R

Michael R — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:22:38 +0000

Distance wise my gamer (last years) has probably travelled a little bit further. All the way from Kilmore Australia to Elk River MN, then to Columbus OH, then to Saline MI. This year my Newest gamer, with a few more “travelling” companions will be doing the Columbus, Saline trip again.

By: JARED BENDER

JARED BENDER — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:43:20 +0000

Mine has made it as far as the Awali golf club in Bahrain and into Umm qasr Iraq. I would not give up my Tei3 Santa Fe for the world. Great blog!!

By: Cole Marshall

Cole Marshall — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:52:50 +0000

I’ve been a member at the Yellowknife Golf Club since I was 13. I’m 20 now and have been working for the Club for the last 7 years. I heard about the article from my Head Professional that got an e-mail from Dave Degroot. On behalf of the Yellowknife Golf Club and all it’s members we’d like to thank both Dave and Mr. Cameron for giving us a little advertising. It’s always nice. Please come back next year Dave. Hopefully it won’t be so overcast and cloudy. It’s usually much brighter out.

Thanks Again,

Cole Marshall
Pro-Shop Supervisor
Yellowknife Golf Club

By: Ryan Crysler

Ryan Crysler — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:02:58 +0000

This is an awesome story. Has anybody gone away to a far away place with the clubs only to find their gamer…perhaps the entire bag…didn’t make the trip?

Knock on wood, and I’d be devasted.

By: Hector R Fernandez

Hector R Fernandez — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:04:09 +0000

Great story Dave! Thanks to Scotty and you for sharing with the members of Club Cameron. My current gamer is a GSS Newport Cameron & Co that has been to Japan, London, and Paris in the last year or so.

Hector