Jimmy Flowers Putters 1938 - 1972
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Jimmy Flowers was an Amateur Golfer who turn  semi-pro in the 1930s winning many local and regional Championship Golf Tournaments from 1935 to the 1950s.

As a results of a putting slump in 1937 Jimmy Flowers  designed and built his own golf putter. Thus the Jimmy Flowers Putter Company was founded  and operated  until 1972.

The first Jimmy Flowers putter model was the #555 designed and produced in 1937.  The #555 was to become the most popular model of which over a 100,000 were sold  from 1937 to 1967

In 1940, the Spaulding Sports Company concluded a deal with my grandfather for the model 555 which they were going to manufacture under the name "Lyne of Flight".  But due to the start of the second World War and to the shortage of bronze the deal was canceled.

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

For more information on The Jimmy Flowers Putter Company

Charles Flowers
Phone: 214-701-2661

 

Jimmy Flowers putters were unique in their time period because they looked like they were precision handcrafted golf clubs. But most important, they performed. Pros and amateurs agree that when you have a long put to "birdie", or short roll-in to "par" a Jimmy Flowers putter was the weapon you wanted to have in your arsenal of clubs. Jimmy Flowers putters were custom made to personal specifications. Weight, balance, length and flex of shaft, choice of grips, and width selection.  The finest materials were used,  TRUE-TEMPER shafts, No.1 grade of Bronze and aluminum and they came hand painted in  the popular colors of the 30's, 40s and 1950s

 

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