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• docflash9 47 Posts

  Wed, Dec 7 2016 5:00 PM

  At St Andrews  #2 there is a magnet somewhere near the hole that stops putts on the lip. I can't see the magnet but can see it working on nearly every putt. You can see the gravitational pull as the ball rolls. It's uncanny.

• plumbology 1,123 Posts

  Wed, Dec 7 2016 5:09 PM

  Hit it harder Alice.

• ostfriedel 2,052 Posts

  Thu, Dec 8 2016 2:20 AM

  Not a magnet. That are ants on steroids defending their hole.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Dec 8 2016 5:10 AM

  Use non-ferrous balls.  Problem solved. ;-)

• borntobesting 9,696 Posts

  Thu, Dec 8 2016 5:14 AM

  Guess he needs the old liquid filled center balls.

• fairground11 1,211 Posts

  Sat, Dec 10 2016 2:41 PM

  be careful in case the magnet pulls your tin foil hat off your head

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2016 1:35 PM

  Aluminum, or as PaulTon prefers, al-you-min-ee-um, is not magnetic.  Nor is stainless steel so when your neighbor shows off their brandy new stainless steel refrigerator with magnets stuck all over it, you'll know. LOL :-)

• garyk49 2,330 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2016 3:26 PM

  YankeeJim:

  Aluminum, or as PaulTon prefers, al-you-min-ee-um, is not magnetic.  Nor is stainless steel so when your neighbor shows off their brandy new stainless steel refrigerator with magnets stuck all over it, you'll know. LOL :-)

  Thanks for that info, Jim.  Never realized that.  In fact have a stainless and black stove. Only the top part where the controls are looks like stainless,(top of stove above burners), a magnet doesn't stick to.  Front of stove they stick, also looks stainless. Blower hood over stove supposed to be stainless they stick to also.  So Hmmmmm.

  Strange indeed.

  EDIT...On that note i became curious, seems yes and no whether they will stick. Depends on the type.  Here is a read for all.

  Will magnets stick on stainless steel?

  But still don't think WGT has implanted magnets near the holes on the greens.