He helped such organizations as the Chicago-based adoption agency, The Cradle the Make-A-Wish-Foundation the Special Olympics’ organization Best Buddies Herbert E. Traveling across continents, he hand-delivered food and medical supplies to such needy sites as the Harapan Kita Hospital for Children in Jakarta, Indonesia the street children of Morocco and Sister Beltran’s orphanage for Liberian refugees on the Ivory Coast, to name just a few.Īt home, he visited countless numbers of soup kitchens and hospitals. His refusal to be inducted into the United States Army anticipated the growing antiwar movement of the 1960’s. His early embrace of the Nation of Islam and his insistence on being called Muhammad Ali instead of his “slave name,” Cassius Clay, heralded a new era in black pride. Muhammad’s life and career played out as much on the front pages of national and international newspapers as on the inside sports pages. But there was always far more to Muhammad than what took place in a boxing ring.
His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend. Over fifty years after he burst upon the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics, in Rome, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world.Īs a boxer, Muhammad brought unprecedented speed and grace to his sport, while his charm and wit changed forever what the public expected a champion to be. So, the next time you see a PING putter in the hands of a champion on TV, know that the PING Gold Putter Vault will be making room for a new addition.MUHAMMAD ALI, CO-FOUNDER OF THE ALI CENTER New putters are added to the collection almost weekly. There’s also a replica of the Eye2 sand wedge used to win the 1986 PGA Championship with a dramatic hole-out from the greenside bunker. They include the 52-degree Tour W wedge Bubba Watson relied on for a miraculous recovery shot on the decisive hole in winning the 2012 Masters. You'll even find a few gold-plated wedges in the collection. As more professionals continued to win with PING putters, his collection quickly grew, requiring several moves into increasingly larger rooms. He didn't know it at the time, but he was in the process of creating golf's version of Fort Knox. The PING Anser occupies the most space in the vault, with more than 500 wins to its credit. The collection includes winning putters from 106 major championships between the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and LPGA Tour, including all four men’s majors in 1988. The oldest belongs to John Barnum, who won the 1962 Cajun Classic with a model 69.
There are now nearly 3,000 putters in what is referred to as "The Gold Putter Vault". Both were engraved with the professional's name and the name of the tournament he or she won. The other he kept at the company's Phoenix, Ariz., headquarters. He decided to commemorate each victory by creating two gold-plated replicas of the winning putter.
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In the 1970's, Karsten Solheim was looking for a unique way to thank and reward the professional for using a PING putter en route to victory. What began as a way of saying thank you has grown into perhaps the most valuable collection of putters in the world.
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