Traveling Made Easier with Porta-Putter  

- Traveling with your golf clubs these days can be cumbersome and expensive. As such, a San Diego-based company has developed a process that transforms your favorite putter into a traveling portable putter, or Porta-Putter. “Our simple and compact solution allows traveling golfers to avoid the limits of rental putters,” said founder Bob Blumberg. “The putter is responsible for almost half of the golfers’ score. The ability for golfers to travel with their favorite, familiar putter gives them a great advantage over their fellow golfers who are stuck using rental putters.”

According to Marketing Coordinator Jennifer Villalobos, the Porta-Putter has been designed for regular sized putters with metal shafts. At present, belly-type putters or putters with graphite or wood shafts are not available. However, the company is evaluating the feasibility of including these types in the future.

How it works

The Porta-Putter method transforms a personal golf putter into a portable putter that easily fits into a suitcase. The Porta-Putter service works by inserting a sleek precision insert in the center of a traditional golf putter shaft. This streamlined and lightweight insert enables the golfer to take their favorite putter apart into two pieces and pack it along when traveling. “Our patented traveling golf putter insert has been thoroughly tested and approved by golfing professionals and conforms to the highest quality standards that you would expect for such a golf-related product,” said Blumberg.

The idea of cutting your putter in two seems a little off-putting, at first anyway. But listen to testimonials from those who have tried it and you quickly agree that the process used is very reliable. By partnering with the leading aerospace precision machining company, Porta-Putter has the unique ability to precisely transform your personal golf putter. Blind performance tests, which included PGA professionals and golf enthusiasts, verified there was virtually no difference in the touch or feel of their original putter and the same style putter that it was transformed into: their own personal Porta-Putter.

“It doesn’t feel like there is any vibration difference, or torque,” said PGA professional Steve Vaughn, Director of Instruction at The Crossings at Carlsbad in southern California. “The Porta-Putter shaft feels like a normal shaft. In fact, you don’t have to have two putters, you can just have the Porta-Putter as your original putter.”

The company owners are so confident in their Porta-Putter process that they guarantee customers 100 percent satisfaction. Blumberg explains: “If for any reason you are not completed satisfied with your Porta-Putter, simply return it to us with a note explaining why, and we will immediately issue you a check for $150; no questions asked.”

For more information about Porta-Putter, visit the company Web site at www.porta-putter.com or call toll free at 877-99-ONEPUTT.