Steve White

Hello golfers,

In this week’s email, we look at the impact of a study by the University of Edinburgh on your golf game, we feature some exciting new product that has just landed in-store, and we look at what happened during last weekend's PGA Tour event in Phoenix.

Enjoy the read.

Shop news

Rogue Part 2...

Last week I reported on Liz Hay’s success going through our Custom Fit Process with the Callaway Rogue Drivers. This week Ken Riley kindly offered to try out the New Callaway Rogues.

Whilst we were doing this exercise to review the Rogue Drivers, it quickly became apparent, as with Liz last week, that it was the ‘Custom Fitting Experience’ that was adding the real value to the session.

Ken admitted his current Callaway XR Driver was an impulse buy from EBay so there wasn’t a huge amount of science involved with his purchase. Whilst the Callaway XR is an excellent driver, it was apparent that Ken and his internet buy were not a match made in heaven.

Whilst Ken is a steady 14 handicapper he felt that if he could gain an extra few yards from the tee it would help him reduce his handicap further. But when he was only averaging 197 yards he felt he should and could do better.

What I noticed straight away with Ken's own driver was that he spun the ball massively (nearly 4,000 rpm on average) and this is why when the ball landed it didn’t have any run on it at all.

So we tried a couple of the Callaway Rogue heads with the weights in different positions. We settled on the Sub Zero head which has the weight closer to the face which nearly halved Ken’s backspin rate to 2,400 rpm. Whist all the rest of Ken’s figures stayed fairly consistent by simply reducing the backspin we were able to find Ken an extra 20 yards of distance.

Ken said “the moral of the story is that I should have come for a fitting first and not gone with the ‘lucky dip’ approach online”

Ken also noticed that the Rogue Drivers were really forgiving. Ken admitted that he hadn’t “caught that many out of the middle of the Club”. This is not uncommon when I am changing the shafts and heads and therefore the feel, but it didn’t really matter because ALL of his ‘less than perfect’ shots were longer than before.

Ex- rental trolley's for sale

You may recall a few weeks back I mentioned that we will be replacing our rental Trolley fleet at the end of February with brand new Motocaddy and PowaKaddy trolley’s, so I have a small number of ex-rental trolleys that are for sale now.

The trolley's we have for sale are the Motocaddy S1 trolley with an extended range (36 Hole) battery and charger. The trolleys are only 1 year old and are serviced fully and cleaned before re-sale.

If you were to buy this trolley new it would cost £499.99. The ex-rental trolleys will cost only £299 each. Once again, we only have 4 of these trolleys for sale so if you would like to reserve one then please contact us in the pro shop as these too will be sold on a first come first served basis.

Click here and get in touch if you are interested

Upcoming events

Dates for your diary

Mizuno Fitting Day Thursday 8th March 12 noon- 4pm
AimPoint Putting Day 12 noon- 2pm
PING Fitting Day Tuesday 27th March 1.30pm- 5.30pm

If you would like to know more about any of these events, do not hesitate to click here and get in touch.

Pro's news

A new arena for golf?

Last week’s Waste Management Phoenix Open on the PGA Tour might seem like an ordinary event on the surface, but it has one particular aspect that no other event comes anywhere near to.

The 16th at TPC Scottsdale is turned into a sporting arena with grandstands lining the entire par-3 to create space for 16,000 spectators on the 163-yard hole, referred to by many as the Colosseum.

It’s easily the closest that golf comes to being played in a stadium like football or rugby, and the atmosphere surrounding the 16th is like nothing else on the golfing calendar. But don’t just take our word for it, watch this video of Matt Kuchar almost acing the par-3 on Sunday – just listen to the crowd’s reaction.