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Scott Becker

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391 total appearances

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Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

I don't know.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

At the end of the day, swinging the club better

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

and making good decisions on the course.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

Those are the two things that really take your handicap down, but swinging the club well and making good club choices, but making good decisions.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

But again, so many people are fixated on clubs.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

So about two to four million putters are sold a year in the U.S.,

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

$550 million in putter sales a year are made.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

Throughout the world, the estimated number of putter sales by dollar volume is $3.5 billion.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

So that's a lot of PT Barnum suckers out there buying new putters every year.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

In terms of the big brands here,

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

Callaway Odyssey, TaylorMade, The Spider, Titleist, Scotty Cameron's in their line.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

Fourth, Ping, and fifth, Lab.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

Lab Companies is a putter company that started about eight years ago.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

It was more the center, you know, I don't pronounce it right, but the center-facing putter.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

But Lab Company has really hit it out of the park recently.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

Many of the estimates show that they've probably surpassed Ping in sales.

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

I cannot tell you the amount of people that we go off with

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

that now thinks that they are the next scotty scheffler because they have a lab putter it's literally gone to a lot of people's heads i know a friend of mine recently got one for his wife and we talked about a a project trying to get his wife to put better and she's actually a very good putter and she's actually the most brilliant person in that family that family actually created a son who's a valedictorian and we generally give that woman the credit

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

for that creation of the son who's a valedictorian the other son is actually brilliant and fantastic too and as good as they come but i but i segue but this is how bad this putter thing has gotten my friend feels compelled by the lab putter for his wife i don't know if that's because she thinks she's going to be better putting with it or he thinks she's going to be happy with him because of it the old concept happy wife happy life must live on in that family of valedictorians in that event

Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
A Sucker is Born Every Minute: The U.S. Putter Market 7-31-25

That's the U.S.