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Special
Ops Hits Target with new Golf Putter
Former
Special Forces weapons expert Charles A. "Mickey" Finn
trades camouflage for the green with his newest creation, the T-Bar™
Putter. This CNC-milled putter has a patent-pending T-Bar weighting
system that makes it the most balanced and consistent putter in
golf today.
For
thirty years Finn designed and produced state-of-the-art weapons
systems for the U.S. military. His expertise includes knives, sniper
rifles, riflescopes, silencers, and bayonets. Finn worked directly
with top military brass and 3-letter agencies. When U.S. forces
retrieved the hostages from Iran, invaded Grenada, and captured
Manuel Noriega in Panama, they relied on Mickey Finn for state-of-the
art, reliable weapons systems. In the industry he is referred to
a "Q", after the special weapons supplier Q in the James
Bond movies.
Access
to Finn's expertise was limited to top military and government agencies
on a need-to-know basis. After extensive research into black military
operations, author Tom Clancy used Finn's name to add an extra measure
of realism to The Cardinal of the Kremlin (page 466). Retiring from
the defense industry, Finn set out into the business world creating
an award-winning line of military and hunting knives. In 1987 Arthur
Young Entrepreneurial Services honored Mickey Finn for his ingenuity,
hard work, and innovation.
Finn
won the U.S. Army contract to design and build the M-9 bayonet for
the M-16 rifle. Out of 49 companies that bid on the contract, Finn
won because his bayonet was the only one tested that had zero percent
test failure -No other company was even close. (See article in below
Blade Magazine)
"Everything
I design is the best, regardless of cost. In the weapons industry,
if what you make has defects it costs lives. I couldn't live with
that type of guilt," says Finn.
Finn
entered the golf industry three years ago when long-time friend
Eddie Maldonado complained that his putting was terrible. Finn,
who has never golfed a day in his life, put his mind to work after
watching Maldonado putt. "I noticed two things when I watched
Eddie and other people putt. Their club faces were not squaring
at impact, and the balls were not rolling top-to-bottom. Instead
they were scooting off these soft material (insert) putters."
From
those observations Finn designed the T-Bar™ Putter with a patent-pending
T-Bar™ weighting system that squares the club at impact, allowing
every golfer to hit the ball straight even if he hits the ball on
the toe, center, or heel. The T-Bar™ initiates a pendulum-like
putting stroke and gets the ball rolling top-to-bottom better than
any putter on the market.
When
asked how someone who has never golfed a day in his life could have
designed the perfect putter Finn responded, "It's quite simple
actually. It's a matter of proper utilization of mechanics, dynamics,
and harmonics applied in conjunction with sound engineering. This
is the formula that provides a superior product. That's what I do."
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