Redwood Anser

The 2008 PING Redwood Anser is the Anser head as it appeared in Ping's Redwood Series, the line putterzone.com describes as PING's inaugural move into the milled putter field. Putterzone.com places the putter in what it calls the ultra-premium putter category, with an MSRP of 250 USD, and describes construction as 100-percent milled, with a face material of 303 stainless steel, though masterofthegreens.com describes the materials more broadly as stainless steel and aluminum. Putterzone.com also notes the design carries heel-toe weighting and a plumber's neck, and traces the name to Redwood City, California, writing it as a nod to Redwood City, California, where Karsten Solheim crafted his first putter, elsewhere simply named for Redwood City, California. The same source notes the Anser design has been around for ages and, at the time of its writing, describes the putter as launched three years ago.

On the course, putterzone.com reported that the hottest putter of the tournament through Saturday's third round isn't Tiger's Method putter, but rather the PING Redwood Anser wielded by Louis Oosthuizen, who sank numerous key putts to remain in the driver's seating heading into the final round. That's the putter's clearest moment on record: a hot week in the hands of one player, as one outlet saw it, set against Ping's own description of the Redwood line as its first entry into 100-percent milled steel.