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April 28, 2008
Australia's Karrie Webb rode a hot new putter to a course-record 64 and a share of third in the Stanford International Pro-Am, her highest finish on the LPGA Tour in almost a year.
The seven-time major winner slotted five straight birdies on the front nine and could have forced her way into a playoff if a birdie putt had a dropped on the final green.
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Baird birdies No. 2
Briny Baird was able to birdie the par 5, 2nd hole during the first round of the 2008 Verizon Heritage.
By DERBY JONES, Publisher
djones@williamsonherald.com
Front Row: Jim Grundberg (owner) and Stephen Hodge (club tech) Second Row: Greg Montgomery (National Sales Mgr.), Sam Howard (Operations Mgr.), Ted Gallina (Customer Service) and Jeremy Ritz (Territory Sales Mgr.)
This time last year, few people outside of the industry knew the name of a quiet professional golfer from Iowa named Zach Johnson, and even fewer knew the name of a golf club company based in Franklin named SeeMore Putter Company.
Fast forward one year. Johnson is now well known as 2007 champion of The Masters and SeeMore Putter Company is now the company whose putter made the winning shot.
“Our company is the American dream,” said Brentwood resident Jim Grundberg, co-owner of SeeMore Putter Company.
Golf fans may remember Payne Stewart winning the 1999 U.S. Open with a SeeMore FGP putter. Stewart completed the final round of the U.S. Open with only 24 putts in what some considered the greatest putting performance in history.
Three months later, Stewart died in a plane crash, and, instead of riding the momentum of Stewart’s victory, SeeMore mourned the loss of a great golfer in the prime of his career.
“After Payne’s death, the former owners just moth-balled the company,” Grundberg said. “They just put the company on hold, and focused on their other business interests.”
At that time Grundberg was working for Odyssey putters in Southern California. Soon his path led him to Tennessee, where he took a job with Gibson Guitar.
A change in jobs couldn’t keep his mind out of the game. Grundberg kept his industry connections open, including one with putter industry veteran Jason Pouliot. They were already looking into the SeeMore brand when they were contacted about reviving the company.
