Arizona Gold

In the 1970s, Karsten Solheim was looking for a unique way to thank and reward golf professionals for using a PING putter en route to victory. He decided to commemorate each victory by creating two gold-plated replicas of the winning putter. One he gave to the champion. The other he kept at the company’s Phoenix, Ariz., headquarters. Both were engraved with the player’s name and the name of the tournament he or she won. The collection quickly grew, requiring several moves into increasingly larger rooms. There are now more than 3,400 putters in what is referred to as “The Gold Putter Vault.”