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Welcome
The Jimmy Flowers Putter Company was started in 1936 when my grandfather was having, what is commonly referred to as, a putting slump. No matter what putter he tried, he was still missing puts which he felt, he should have been making. So, if he could not find a putter that was working for him, he would design his own. And thus, was the beginning of over 50 years of hand crafting one of the finest precision Golf putters sold in that era.
His first model was the model #555 of which over 100,000 were sold. He would often tell me, "Charlie, you drive for show, but you have to putt for the dough!" Your short game is where the money will be won or lost in any Golf tournament!
During the lifetime of the company, Jimmy Flowers designed over 40 models of putters which
were sold exclusively through Golf Professional. The list of pros who have used Jimmy Flowers style putters could easily qualify for any Hall Of Fame. Chick Harbert, Cary Middlecolf, Ed and Marty Furgol, Jimmy Thompson, Porky Oliver, Horton Smith, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Bryon Nelson, Julius Boros and everyone's favorite Arnold Palmers
Note: Putter shown above is model #33 and features a design without the normal ferrule and uses what was called a sweat-shaft method. Putter was very popular in the 50s and 60s.
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Going through some of my grandfather's papers, we discovered an interesting and funny bit of little-known golf history. In 1950, my grandfather, was involved with the 1950 March of Dimes Golf Tournament
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The Port Arthur Refinery was a direct by-product of the January 10, 1901, Lucas gusher and the resulting Spindletop oil boom at Beaumont. Storage tanks and a pump station were constructed at Garrison station near Spindletop with a pipeline completed in August 1902 to the present refinery site, which was on open prairie next to an old brickyard.