Just wondering if these old style putters still remain in play...

I know in the early days it seemed like this was the dominant putter...

I think Pavin is still using one. Can't think of anyone else off the top of my head.

Mark McNulty still uses one on the Champions tour, Bob Estes? maybe as well, Pavin swithces between one and a anser style.

steve jones used a bullseye for a long time
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I think that putter has been in McNulty's bag since the year dot. He will probably be buried with it alongside him...

An asian player on tour plays one I know. I think it is Ryuji Imada or something.

I saw Pavin using his at the Turning Stone Championship a couple weeks ago

Notah Begey---He had the plain, no offset since he putted from both sides of the ball.

Yeah, I think he putts right handed on right to left putts and left handed on left to right putts.

I think Bob Estes still uses one.

And he is deadly accurate on the moss.

Bob Tway uses one I know.

does Dudley Hart still use one?

Hard to believe someone would still use it.

Why would that be? I mean, I know the MOI on one is way low compared to others, but putting is after all, all about personal preferance and confidence. If the person putting thinks they will make the putt in front of them with one, why not?

They still use them at the putt-putt mini-golf here.

I have several brass and 5 Scotties; I love them and use them.

I use a Scotty flanged version of one, see avatar, and I think it is the best putter for me I have ever used. My version is slightly larger and heavier than the old school ones, but I would use and old school bullseye before some god awful ugly 3 ball putter. I have never understood why you need a high MOI with a putter? If you cant hit the sweat spot with a putter only one thing will save you-practice! Plus lookimg down at a bullseye just seems to unclutter the mind for me, and the straight lines seem to make alignment much easier for me whereas the MOI alognment systems seem to make things much more "cluttered". Just my opinion YMMV.

Because there are lots of us that have jobs where we work 45+ hours every week and have 2 kids at home. We're lucky to get to play golf at all, much less practice. (Are we talkin' 'bout practice!!! - )

And yes, I do miss the sweetspot sometimes. And it's much better to have a 3' after the first 30 footer, rather than a 7 footer.

Yeah what is it about putt putt mini golf places and bullseye putters?

I pulled out my old bullseye offset for a club tournament today. It probably is a 1960's model, rusty shaft, all dinged up, I got it out of a lost club bin at a course I used to work at in 1983, and it looked really old then. I putted with it for about 15 years after that, then just seemed to lose it with it. I probably haven't used it in close to 10 years. My stroke was suffering with my Yes putter, and I thought why not after about a 1/2 hour on the practice green.

It did show some of the old magic, made a nice 15 footer on the first hole for birdie, and a nother nice about 15 footer on 7 for a birdie. Alas, on the back nine, after making a nice 10 footer on 11 for another birdie to go 3 under for the day, I feel apart in the wind and missed 2 greens from 100 yards and air mailed another one down wind and made 3 bogeys. Then my bullseye let me down, missed a 6 footer for birdie on 16, then three putted from long distance on the par 5 17, missed a 3 footer at most on the second putt, but it wasn't the putters fault, I miss read a little slider.

But it was encouraging, I stroked it well, had a pretty good touch, and was hitting it on the sweetspot of the putter almost all the time, which I was not doing with anything else I've been trying lately. It may stay in the bag for what little is left of the season.....