Late-season victories by Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott and Webb Simpson put extended flatsticks front and center in the public’s eye. A similar boom is mushrooming now in the belly and long putter market. In the 2 ½ years following Nicklaus’ sixth Masters victory, MacGregor sold an astounding 350,000 Response ZTs. Specifically, sales of the mammoth-headed MacGregor Response ZT putter Nicklaus used to make all those back-nine bombs. Most have forgotten the explosion of putter sales that followed his win. Every golfer of a certain age remembers Jack Nicklaus’ stunning Masters triumph in 1986.
