For those of you who know, Bobby Grace was known for his hand-milled mallet putter named “The Fat Lady”. It was a huge hit during the early 90s since Nick Price won the PGA Championship in ’94 as he is became the No. 1 player in the world, and Annika Sorenstam gets the putter and wins her first seven events with it, with back-to-back U.S. Opens. Karrie Webb comes out of the box and wins with our putter right away. “The Fat Lady” was a victory goddess.
So who is this “Fat Man”? Here’s a little story behind the Mystery:

A friend was over for dinner and I started talking about this big mallet that I was making. I said it’s along the lines of the Big Bertha. I tried to tell this guy who is a 25 handicap, so he hardly understands where I am going with the design.

So I explained the club to him and told him about the Big Bertha and I explained how Cobra Golf’s Tom Crowe — remember the driver he had called the Long Tom? Well, those were all real catchy names because they had double meanings. They had meanings of a military weapon back during the war that had long and precise accuracy, so we need something with the catchy name, double meaning and all this good stuff.
When I described it to him he said how about the Fat Lady, it ain’t over till the fat lady signs. It just really fit so that’s what happened there. In fact it was voted the best name of any golf product in 1995.
We started making different-sized mallets because not everybody wanted the biggest, most forgiving for looks.

I also knew I had to go out on the ladies tour and I wasn’t going to go out on the ladies tour with a Fat Lady putter and not a Fat Man putter. So I had to make a Fat Man and a Little Lady and a Cute Kid.