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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
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