I just got your putter yesterday but took out today for a round. I have to say that this one is another one of your fine putters. The flow and the address were just great and easy. I do like smaller grip on this one better. Love the color. Thanks for making a great product.
In the mid 1970’s, I bought from a second hand store a MacGregor GB-1 George Bayer driver with a key hole insert for $5.00. I took it to a club repair shop in Columbus, Ohio to have it refinished. After a couple of weeks, the shop called me and said it was finished and a Japanese customer saw it and wanted to buy it and had offered $400.00. At that point I wondered why it was worth $400.00 to someone, so this started my journey into the club collecting world.
So we went to pawn shops, Goodwill stores, golf shops, thrift stores, golf shows and anywhere golf clubs would be found. Needless to say, some were quite interesting. At the Indianapolis golf show I met Bob Kent. Bob traveled with the PGA Tour and bought and sold classic clubs to many of the players. Andy Bean, Mike Hulbert, Fulton Allem were a few pros that Bob bought and sold from. Bob and I became very good friends over time and he was a wealth of knowledge. He was a soft spoken man and he taught me all about MacGregor, Wilson, Spalding and Ping collectibles. In the late 1980’s Bob became ill and I bought his entire inventory and brought it to Table Rock Golf Club and built a room to house them and it became a destination for people to find woods, irons, wedges and putters.
The classic business was very good. Kathy and I dragged our
kids, Jeff and Kelly around to many golf shows during the winter circuit.
Then in 1992 I was selling clubs in Augusta at gate 5 of the
Masters. That was when I met Scotty Cameron. He was a very young man just
starting out making a line of putters. I really liked his work and I bought his
putters and they were $200.00 each! Now in those days, Ping putters sold for
$25.00-$45.00 retail, so bringing a Scotty Cameron black carbon steel putter to
a show and asking $350.00 for them, made it a hard sell.
So our break came when Bernard Langer won the 1993 Masters
with a Cameron Classic I and that made the front page of the USA Today. Golfers wanted to buy a Cameron putter and
Table Rock had Scotty’s entire inventory. This started a 22 year career of
selling Scotty’s tour putters. It was a wonderful relationship. In 2014 Scotty
wanted his shops around the world to be the only carrier of his tour putters
and our distributorship ended.
This all has led me to July 2018 when I decided to design
and manufacture my own brand of putters.
Thus JMI Putters was born. I wanted to build my version of the classic
putters made by Ping, Wilson, Spalding and Cameron over the last 35 years. When
thinking about a name, Kathy wanted to somehow link her Dad into it. He was the
reason that Table Rock Golf Club was built and he was a tool and die maker, way
before CNC machines and he had a factory that was named Johnstown
Manufacturing, Incorporated and we always called it JMI for short. Now JMI
(stands for “Just my Input”) made its debut at the 2019 PGA Show.
All of my putters have a welded neck and are hand shaped and
hand stamped by me. They are made out of stainless steel and are available in
raw finish, black oxide, a flamed finish and two shades of gold. We manufacture them in Apopka, Florida.
To give you a background on the model names they are named
after our grandsons, Finn, Ronan, Reagan and Shea. The mallet was named after
Kathy’s dad, Clifford Wayne Lynn, it is The C.W. model. Cliff always putted
with an Otey Chrisman mallet.
These are not like the perfect CNC putters that most everyone has out, they are unique, a lot of hand work goes into each and every one of them. I can build a custom putter to your needs and our models are; Finnro, Finnro 2, Reashea, Reashea 2 and a mallet The C.W.
Table Rock Distributing will be back at the 2018 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando this year. It is January 24th to 26th this year and Table Rock will be in booth 2201.
After a few years away, Table Rock Distributing will be returning to the PGA Show in 2017. Come visit us at booth 2117. We will be featuring new Tyson Lamb tour putters and other unique items.
The newest TableRock.com launched in late 2016. Here’s how the site has evolved over the years:
1997 – First TableRock.com
Many created to promote the golf course, we also had our list of 7,000 new and used golf clubs:
1998: Power Ti Pod
Not much changed in 1998, but we would be remiss if we didn’t pay homage to our exclusive distributorship of the Power Ti Pod!
2000: Online Shop Created
We were finally able to sell online in 2000. Plus, if you spent $275 you got a free umbrella! We may need to look into bringing that promo back.
2003: Featuring Our New Golf Shop in Westerville
Customers could also book tee times online for the first time.
2006: Scotty Cameron Becomes Focus of Homepage
A major redesign put the golf course deeper into the website and our online store became the homepage.
2008: Major Redesign
2008 was our biggest redesign to date, with a complete rebuild of the back end.
2015: New TableRockGC.com
In 2014, a new website was created strictly for the golf course. We then changed the homepage to this website to clearly send the reader in the right direction.
