Equipment

10 mind-blowing images of Tiger Woods’ putter, created with A.I.

Published

12 months ago

May 10, 2023

Tiger Woods’ custom Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS putter has been in his bag for 14-of-his-15 major championship victories, and it’s one of the most famous and valuable golf clubs of all time.

Here at GolfWRX.com, we take photos of golf equipment. And, since Woods still uses the putter, we recently took some up-close photos of the putter face.

For more photos of Tiger Woods’ clubs, check out his full 2023 WITB here.

As the photo shows, he has a wear mark directly in the center of the face. In order for a wear mark like that to show on GSS metal, just from impacting a golf ball, it likely takes thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of center strikes.

Yeah, he doesn’t miss the center of the face often.

I wondered, to myself, what this photo might look like when enhanced, manipulated, and re-imagined by Artificial Intelligence. Honestly, I don’t know exactly how A.I. works, but I had a blast running Tiger’s photo through a combination of utilities to see what it came up with. Entertainment value aside, the A.I. photos also helped to highlight the pronounced wear mark.

Let’s get right to it. Here are 10 of my favorite A.I.-edited photos of Tiger’s famous Scotty Cameron putter.

(They get progressively weirder as we go!)

For more photos of Tiger Woods’ clubs, check out his full 2023 WITB

Isolated and enhanced: Look at all the scratches, dents and dings!

Abstract art anyone?

Yeah, that’s a lot of scratches (I think A.I. may have added just a few)

A.I. is starting to recognize the center mark…

Cherry bomb: Scotty Cameron would be proud

The Lost City of Birdies

Tiger Woods x Space Jam

Throwing darts

Is… that Arnold Palmer?

A.I. started getting a little bit out of hand at the end, but it’s still pretty cool nonetheless. Somehow A.I. even seemed to know that Arnold Palmer was a pilot who reportedly flew over 18,000 hours.

Wild stuff.

What do you think of the A.I. images of Woods’ famous putter? If you want to see more, let us know in the comments below!

For more photos of Tiger Woods’ clubs, check out his full 2023 WITB

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Andrew Tursky

He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

4 Comments

J

May 13, 2023 at 5:59 pm

The obsession that grown men have over everything about this man is hilarious, but mostly it’s just pretty sad.

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Rob

May 12, 2023 at 2:09 am

Throwing Darts is more of a watch theme, looks like the inside of a mechanical watch.

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Drew Carlson

May 11, 2023 at 10:14 am

Are you able to provide High Resolution files of these images you created!?!?!
I would love if you could email them to me!

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Ben

May 10, 2023 at 11:15 am

Arnie did over 19,000 hours. Not 18,000 miles.

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Whats in the Bag

Rasmus Højgaard WITB 2024 (April)

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13 hours ago

Apr 23, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Rasmus Højgaard what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.

Driver: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX

3-wood: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Prototype (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX

Check out more in-hand photos of Hojgaard in the forums.

Utility: Callaway Apex UW (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 85 TX

Irons: Callaway Apex Pro (3), Callaway X Forged (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS $-Taper 130

Check out more in-hand photos of Hojgaard in the forums.

Wedges: Callaway Jaws Raw (52-10S, 56-10S, 60-06C)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X

Putter: Odyssey Ai One Milled Eight T DB

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

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Whats in the Bag

Rory McIlroy WITB 2024 (April)

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13 hours ago

Apr 23, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Rory McIlroy what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.

Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X

Check out more in-hand photos of Rory McIlroy’s WITB in the forums.

5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X

Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9)
Shaft: Project X 7.0 (4-9)

Check out more in-hand photos of Rory McIlroy’s WITB in the forums.

Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-K @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)

Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour

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Ball: 2024 TaylorMade TP5x

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

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Equipment

Spotted: Nate Lashley’s Ping PLD “Wolverine” putter

Published

14 hours ago

Apr 23, 2024

Brian Knudson

Ping PLD putters have been a very common site on profesional tours. Pros seem to gravitate toward the PLD line’s custom options and precision milling. We have seen the PLD line expanded over the years, but we haven’t seen too many, if any, large mallets.

This week we spotted a PLD putter in Nate Lashley’s bag that has a similar look to the old Ping Wolverine head shape. This putter is a large mallet with the famous “claws” on the outside and oval center that housed the alignment aid.

Nick’s putter has the PLD logo on the back but also looks like it might have an insert installed on the face. It is hard to tell but at the address picture, it looks like the face is a lighter material than the rest of the putters. The putter is center-shafted and should be face-balanced with a high MOI for stability and forgiveness on mishits. The sole is completely milled and has no markings of name or technologies that might be present in the head. A single white site line is on the top of the putter for alignment.