'Goofy' putter that helped Jack Nicklaus win 1986 Masters is reimagined
Jack Nicklaus's 1986 Masters win with a MacGregor Response ZT putter created a golf equipment frenzy, selling 350,000 units.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Before J. J.
Spaun won the 2025 U. S. Open with a LAB putter, Wyndham Clark the 2023 U.
S. Open with an Odyssey Jailbird and Payne Stewart the 1999 U. S.
Open with a SeeMore FGP bronze putter, Jack Nicklaus may have sent off the biggest frenzy for a golf club from one tournament when he won the 1986 Masters with a MacGregor Response ZT. “Up until that point it was a novelty, a goofy putter,” Clay Long, former head of research and development for MacGregor Golf and the designer of the oversized aluminum putter once told Golfweek , “but it got serious real quick(ly). ” MacGregor had forecasted selling 6,000 putters for the year.
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