Who Invented the Long Putter?

Interesting question. Rest assured that it was not Johnny Miller, this guy (see comments section), or this guy (although I would like to see the picture of him with a parrot on his shoulder). The earliest patent I could locate on a belly putter was filed in 1961 and issued in 1965 to Richard T. Parmley as USPN 3188086 titled “Body-Pivot Golf Putter.”




If only he could have collected a percentage of the winnings! Good job Richard, you were decades ahead of most golfers.

Dave Dawsey  - Monitoring Belly Putter Inventions
 
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