Steve White

Hello Golfers,

Hello and welcome to another edition of our newsletter. This week, we take a look at a fan-favourite's second win on tour this season, whilst giving you the rundown on how we can help you get the most out of your game through our coaching and fitting services.

Enjoy the read.

Equipment news

Callaway Epic Flash

As many of you will know from reading last weeks newsletter we have a Callaway Demonstration Day coming up on Thursday 24th January from 10am-2pm and as expected the fitting times are filling up fast!

Callaway have been our best selling brand for a number of years now, and in particular last years Rogue Drivers and Big Bertha Irons have been unbeatable in our Swing Studio for most.

Secret to Success

The reason for Callaway’s recent success was the breakthrough of a new technology called Jailbreak. These are two vertical bars placed behind the face effectively add to the stability of the club and enhance energy transfer to the ball.

This technology started in the 2017 Epic driver which we found that the golf ball came off the Club face really quickly which gave lots of our customers plenty of distance but sadly it wasn't all that forgiving.

The Rogue Driver came next in 2018 which was really forgiving but sadly hadn't gained any notable yardage gain from the Epic. So Callaway have been looking for more speed coming off the Club face combined with forgiveness and I think they could have done it with their Brand New 2019 Epic Flash which has been designed by a super computer.

Yes, robots are taking over the world and golf is included!

So what is the Flash?

The Flash Face in these clubs, is a very advanced take on driver faces, crafted to life from thousands of virtual prototypes created by the “super computer” Callaway invested in four years ago.

This new form of golf club engineering allowed Callaway to test roughly 15,000 club face optimisations to find a winner, as opposed to its previous method of vetting just a handful a common scenario for most Club manufacturers out there today.

The result was a face with dozens of subtle ripples, or waves, flowing from heel to toe to work in unison with Jailbreak and elevate COR (ball speed) in the face’s centre region.

It’s Callaway’s thinnest centre of the face to date and I have the feeling it's going to be even greater than Rogue!

Call us on 01548 560715 to book into our demo day or click here and get in touch.

Coaching news

Off to the Perfect Start

With Christmas and New Year all done and dusted, now is the time to focus on your game, building up to the start of the 2019 season.

You may see the colder months as a time to put off practice or playing but it’s the perfect period to be working on the areas of your game that need most work. It's important to have your game in the best possible shape when the start of the season arrives.

If you have any particular area of your game that would like to work on then get in touch clicking here.

Tour news

Not all plain sailing

It was a 9th PGA Tour win for tour favourite Matt Kuchar, as he claimed victory at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Kuchar carded a final round of 66, finishing on -22, four shots clear of Andrew Putnam in second place. It wasn’t all plain sailing for Kuchar, with bogeys in three of his first five holes on Sunday, but a resurgent back-nine saw a comfortable win in the end.

It was Kuchar’s second win on tour this season, just 64 days after winning the Mayakoba Classic in November; a real change in fortunes, when you consider he had to wait four years between his seventh and eighth PGA Tour victories.

On the Ladies European Tour, England’s Charley Hull took a wire-to-wire triumph at the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open in Abu Dhabi, for her second win on tour. It was a real test of nerve at the finish, with Hull splashing out of a bunker on the 18th, before saving par with a great putt to give her the win by one stroke.

The perfect layers

There’s no such thing as bad weather for golf – just a poor choice of clothing. You might have got away with the old ‘raincheck’ excuse a few years ago, but golf clothing has come a long way since then. All you need to do is make sure you’re properly layered up with golf-specific garments and you’re good to go.

First layer
Playoff stripe polo

Mid-layer
Storm SF Snap Mock pullover

Outer-layer
Storm Daytona vest

One such garment is the Storm Daytona vest from Under Armour; with internal air pockets and double-knit insulation panels for added warmth, this bodywarmer is a serious force to be reckoned with. To complete the look, try UA's Playoff Stripe polo and Storm SF Snap Mock layers underneath.

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Nothing but progress

When you’re working out how you want to take the first step to improving your golf game, you can often hit a roadblock straight away. After all, you might have heard every piece of advice from your golfing mates about how to cure that nasty slice, but you’re still carving it right off the tee. Well, we’ve got two foolproof ways of getting your golf ball in play and that handicap tumbling...

Golf Lessons

Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is foolish. So, if there’s a part of your game that always lets you down, come and have a lesson with a member of the team – we’ll be able to tailor the session to your exact needs and make sure you leave happy.

Custom Fitting

Lots of new products will be getting released over the coming weeks, so if you’re after something new, make sure you come for a custom fitting to get the most out of any new purchase. You'll really get the VIP treatment and will leave with a much better understanding about your game.

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Hope you enjoyed the newsletter and have a great weekend. Steve, Lorraine, Joan, Duncan and Glenn.

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