A Publication of Tom Wishon Golf Technology   •   August 2004
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August 2004 TWGT eTECHreport

Summer's almost over. Let's think warm thoughts for fall...

In August's issue of the TWGT eTECHreport:

[NOTE: the complete August TWGT eTECHreport pdf version is available by clicking here - 650KB (requires Adobe Acrobat 5 or newer )]

Common Sense Points to Use in Fitting

Because clubmaking and fitting are technical subjects, it is all too easy to get caught up in the ‘minutia and details’, and in the process not be able to “see the forest for the trees.” [continues below]

The Smoooth 6 & 7 Putters (promo)

Clubmakers and their golfers are raving about the combination of soft feel and off-center forgiveness, with the custom weighting capability of the new TWGT Smoooth Model 6 & 7 putters. [continues below]

A Helpful Change for your Clubmaking Assembly

TWGT’s weight bore, which is included in each original TWGT woodhead, ironhead and wedge head design, has proven to be an extremely easy and effective way for clubmakers to achieve the final desired MOI or swingweight. However, if you ever need to remove one of the tungsten weights from the weight bore... [continues below]

MOI Matching – This IS the Real Deal

Since TWGT completed work on the first ever system for truly matching the Moment of Inertia of all clubs within the set, several hundred clubmakers have invested in the program and have been using it in their custom clubmaking. In complete honesty, not one clubmaker has reported to us that a golfer for whom they MOI matched their clubs has not liked the difference MOI matching made in the swing feel of all of the clubs in their set. Not ONE! [continues below]

New Models (updated)

Formerly referred to as 'Black Cobalt', the new Wishon PCF Wedge is actually a stunning Platinum Nickel... [continues below]

SAY “HI” TO A REAL HYBRID (by Matt Mohi)

I have to admit that I am somewhat of an equipment snob. While I enjoy the sense of accomplishment in pureing a muscleback 3-iron, that pleasure drops and fades (which perfectly mirrors the shot I hit most of the time) when I have to reach into my pocket at the end of a round to settle a bet! [continues below]

Parting Shot – How I Sell TWGT Custom Made Clubs in My Shop (by John Moorman)

Pretty darn easy, that’s how, and a lot easier than any other components I have ever worked with in my clubmaking. Like all of you, I have a ton of choices for components that I can use in my custom fitting, actually too many choices. [continues below]

 

Common Sense Points to Use in Fitting

Because clubmaking and fitting are technical subjects, it is all too easy to get caught up in the ‘minutia and details’, and in the process not be able to “see the forest for the trees.” As many of you know who have followed, read and learned from my golf equipment and fitting research over the years, I much prefer to use a “practical” or “common sense” approach when it comes to advising what combination of head, shaft, grip and assembly specifications are going to make the most difference in shot performance for the golfer. The following is a collection of some of the common sense points of clubfitting that clubmakers can keep in mind when things become too complicated in a fitting session with a golfer.

  1. The longer the length, the heavier the total weight, the lower the loft and the stiffer the shaft, the harder the club will be to hit for 99% of the golfers you fit.
  2. Unless the golfer has a proven preference otherwise, fit your golfers into the lightest, most flexible shaft that they can control. And remember to spend some time determining what each golfer’s definition will be for “control.”
  3. Face Angle is by far the most powerful fitting specification for addressing accuracy problems. Club Length is right up there behind it.
  4. Set Makeup is your most powerful fitting specification for actually lowering the golfer’s score through wood and iron fitting. Obviously short game and putting control the score more than the right clubhead, shaft, grip or assembly specifications. But because so many golfers are focused so heavily on their woods and irons, a real change in set makeup–replacing hard to hit clubs with clubs that are easier to hit solidly and get up in the air for the same shot distances–will have a greater effect on score than any other wood or iron fitting change.
  5. The golf swing can negate any fitting specification you may recommend. In other words, know when the golfer’s need for a major fundamental swing correction cannot be overcome with a fitting change.
  6. To forego learning what swing mechanics affect which fitting specifications is to bring more guessing and more trial and error into the fitting process.
  7. For 99% of the golfers who play the game, to err on the side of more flexibility in the shaft is to do the golfer a favor.
  8. The slower the swing speed of the golfer, the more loft is required to maximize the golfer’s potential for distance with the driver. The only exception is when the slow swing speed golfer has a swing move, or ball position that results in a very high flight. In such cases, point (5) above must be remembered.
  9. Never overlook putter fitting in your work with a golfer. And while putter fitting, do not neglect putter loft fitting, isolating your focus to only length, lie, putter headweight, head and grip style.
  10. The most important wood and iron specifications to address for a real change in ball striking performance are length, set make up, wood face angle, wood loft, iron lie, club total weight, grip size and the correct MOI of the assembled golf club for the golfer.
  11. A launch monitor can be an extremely helpful tool in fitting, but ONLY if you know how to process the feedback into proper fitting specifications.
  12. Proper wedge fitting for loft progression, length, and sole angle can lay the foundation for a golfer to score better, but will not guarantee it because wedges are clubs in which technique and manipulation are so important. However, proper putter fitting for loft, length, lie, grip and headweight can bring about an automatic improvement in score.
  13. Hosel offset on woods may address trajectory and accuracy for players who fade and hit the ball lower. Hosel offset on irons should be fit primarily from an “appearance” standpoint.
  14. OK, call me prejudiced, but even if we had not developed the GRT (See page 24 of the Spring 2004 (printed) TECHreport for the Wishon 515GRT - available as a 6.3MB PDF here.) Design Highlights. face design, excessive vertical roll radius on drivers is not a good design parameter for any golfer.
  15. Taking the time to learn how to build your custom clubs to be MOI matched is definitely better than swingweight matching. But if you stay with swingweight matching for your assembly, it is far better to err on the side of a little higher swingweight for the vast majority of golfers than it is to err on the side of a lower swingweight. Of course this is based on your fitting for the best total weight of the clubs to the strength and tempo requirements of the player.
  16. Very long drivers will only work for players with a smooth backswing-to-downswing transition, smooth tempo, and who do not have an upright swing plane.
  17. Any golfer using a driver with less than 11° loft who has a swing speed under 90mph with a level-to-downward angle of attack to the ball definitely has at least 10 more yards of driver distance that is untapped, if you fit them with a higher driver loft.
  18. Never make the length of the clubs longer than what the wrist-to-floor measurement chart (See page 16 of the Spring 2004 (printed) TECHreport for the article entitled “Fitting Club Length.” - available as a 6.3MB PDF here.) would indicate unless the golfer has 1) smooth tempo, 2) normal to flatter swing plane, 3) good ball striking skills.

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The Smoooth 6 & 7 Putters

Clubmakers and their golfers are raving about the combination of soft feel and off-center forgiveness, with the custom weighting capability of the new TWGT Smoooth Model 6 & 7 putters. Available in RH and LH, this putter is true forged from high grade 6061 aluminum which is the secret to its very soft feel with any ball construction type. Hit these putters off-center intentionally and you’ll feel the other reason for their great performance – virtually no loss of distance with the putt when you make a slight mistake with your stroke.

Large rear sole weight cavity allows customizing putter headweight from 335g to 405g to fit virtually every golfer. Medallion cover for weight cavity included. 14g lead weight disks to be purchased separately.

Smoooth 6&7 promo for August 2004

(*Grip, tax and shipping not included. Offer good until August 31, 2004 only. Subject to change and availability.)

Kudos for the Smoooth Series putters:

“I make custom putters, and have used many many component putter heads over the years. Brand recognition is a huge selling factor for most golfers, too bad the brand name doesnt put the ball in the hole. Wishon is a name most serious golfers recognize, and lends us builders some of that brand recognition we need in order to sell higher end products.

“The Smoooth series, especially the the 6 and 7, have a feel unlike most I’ve ever used. And they have a look that really works. I work in a small area that requires art as well as function, and these heads are the perfect compliment to that.

“Thanks Tom for a great product!!!”

– Jim, from the TWGT Forum

“I’ve heard the term ‘point and shoot’ a lot over the last several years, but the Smoooth 7 is the first putter I’ve ever used (and I’ve used all the OEM stuff) that actually fits that description.”

– Ken Davies, U.S. Embassy, Rabat, Morocco

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A Helpful Change for your Clubmaking Assembly

TWGT’s weight bore, which is included in each original TWGT woodhead, ironhead and wedge head design, has proven to be an extremely easy and effective way for clubmakers to achieve the final desired MOI or swingweight. However, if you ever need to remove one of the tungsten weights from the weight bore, this task has proven to be in the range of very difficult to almost impossible. Tungsten is an extremely hard metal and as such, the tungsten weight plugs cannot be removed by drilling.

New grooved tungsten weights allow
for easy removal when necessary.

While the incidence of having to remove one of the tungsten weights from a TWGT clubhead are rare, the need may arise if the customer wishes to change shafts or change MOI or swingweight of the club(s) you built for them. To make that possible, TWGT has now completely converted all of our stock of the 6g and 9g tungsten weights so that each tungsten weight we sell has a groove cut into one end. The groove will allow clubmakers to use a flathead screwdriver to twist the weight loose, after heating the side of the hosel in the area of the weight bore to soften the epoxy holding the tungsten weight in place.

TWGT is the only component company offering this unique, common sense alteration to its tungsten weight plugs. Speaking of common sense, the groove for removing the weight is only cut on one end of the tungsten plug – thus when you use our new grooved weights, don’t forget to install them with the groove on the TOP side!

100-6g – package of twelve 6 gram tungsten weights with groove - $9
100-9g – package of twelve 9 gram tungsten weights with groove - $12

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MOI Matching – This IS the Real Deal

Since TWGT completed work on the first ever system for truly matching the Moment of Inertia of all clubs within the set, several hundred clubmakers have invested in the program and have been using it in their custom clubmaking. In complete honesty, not one clubmaker has reported to us that a golfer for whom they MOI matched their clubs has not liked the difference MOI matching made in the swing feel of all of the clubs in their set. Not ONE!

We know there are thousands of clubmakers out there, all of whom have a desire to build the best custom clubs possible for each golfer they serve. MOI matching is without question one very good way to achieve that goal. Look at it this way. If we or any other clubmaking company were able to magically develop a head or a shaft that automatically hit the ball much farther or straighter for all golfers, there is no doubt thousands of clubmakers would all immediately begin offering that head or shaft to their golfers. While MOI matching is not going to add 30 yards or ensure hitting 14 fairways and 18 greens per round, it can definitely improve the percentage of solid, on-center hits for all golfers – and it will bring a more pleasing sense of feel to all golfers with all of their clubs.

MOI matching has long been recognized among golf equipment engineers and technically minded clubmakers as being superior to swingweight – it will make all clubs in the set swing with precisely the same effort from the golfer and with the same swing feel. Thus what it offers to the golfer is the chance to play the game with greater swing consistency.

MOI matching is not a TWGT discovery. All we have done is to recognize its superiority to swingweight matching of clubs and develop a system to finally allow clubmakers to build real MOI matched clubs. Please do not think of our MOI matching system as being a “product” that we are “hyping” as if in competition with any other company’s products. It is real science that is proven to make all clubs in a set swing with precisely the same effort from the golfer to deliver the same exact swing feel.

You may ask the question, “If MOI matching is so superior to swingweight, why don’t the big brand name companies do it?” Major manufacturers of standard made golf clubs do not and likely will not offer MOI matched clubs because MOI matching is individually custom fit to each golfer, same as length, driver loft, or any other fitting specification. In other words, one standard MOI cannot fit all golfers. The major manufacturers can never build every club they make to custom specifications, thus they would never offer MOI matching in custom form.

We know that swingweight matching has been around for nearly a century. We also know that traditional methods of clubmaking can be difficult to give up, because we all dislike change to some extent. But MOI matching is superior to swingweight matching, it will deliver better clubs to your customers, and it will provide you with a valuable point of differentiation to enhance your clubmaking reputation in your local market.

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all new TWGT models

New Models Now Available

 

New PCF model Platinum Nickel finished wedges (formerly known as Black Cobalt)

 

New 321-5 iron hybrid

 

New 939H Iron Additions

 

 

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SAY “HI” TO A REAL HYBRID

by Matt Mohi

I have to admit that I am somewhat of an equipment snob. While I enjoy the sense of accomplishment in pureing a muscleback 3-iron, that pleasure drops and fades (which perfectly mirrors the shot I hit most of the time) when I have to reach into my pocket at the end of a round to settle a bet! The reality is that I don’t have the same swing I did when I was a kid and was constantly hitting balls and playing golf without a care in the world. Ah, the good ol’ days!

While I have enjoyed playing the cavity backs in my longer irons, and admit to feeling more at ease over the ball looking down knowing that I have the forgiveness of a Cavity Back design, it finally dawned on me last fall that there was an even easier way to go – and it took only one swing to open my eyes.

When we received the first testing samples of Tom’s redesign of the long iron hybrid, the 321Li, I quickly agreed to participate in the human side of the testing. I hurried through my regular warm-up routine and wasn’t fully in the groove when I took my first swipe with one of the 321-3 iron test clubs with the GI-335 graphite shaft. The ball soared way up high into the air – so much higher than my conventional 3-iron that I had time to turn to Tom and yell “Winner!” before the ball hit the ground.

Immediately, I knew that this club was in the “VERY easy-to-hit” category. Apparently a lot of clubmakers have found the same thing because the 321 hybrids’ success this year for clubmakers has proven that our initial experience was correct. I am convinced that if there were an award for the golf industry’s “Club of the Year”, no question the 321 hybrid with its matching GI-335 graphite shaft would give everyone a run for their money.

What is it that makes the 321Li so easy to hit? It really is a combination of several design features; some attributed to the design/performance aspects of the head, some which are the heads’ interaction with the specially designed shaft. Because the overall success of the 321 is a combination of the head plus the shaft, I would like to touch upon a couple of things to look for when fitting golfers – most of which comes up in the interview process.
First let’s take a look at the design/performance features that make the 321Li so unique in the broadly defined world of “hybrids”.

Headweight for True Long Iron Length and Distance

Many Hybrids on the market today are simply narrow-bodied fairway woods. They have the same headweight as fairway woods of the same lofts, and thus are designed to be built to fairway wood length. For golfers that just ends up being a duplication of their fairway woods’ performance, only with a different shape. Tom’s design concept was not to replicate what could be done in fairway woods, but to create a much easier to hit head that could fit into the bag by delivering real long iron distance. The 321s are designed at the same loft, lie, and weight as their traditional iron design counterparts.

Small Tip Iron Shaft321 weight bore

Since Tom inaugurated the practice of studying the bend profile over the entire length of the shaft to determine its total contribution to shaft performance, one thing that he knew is that the club would be much easier to hit with the shaft designed to have a .335” tip section as opposed to the .370” tip section diameter of conventional iron shafts. This smaller diameter allows for a much more active tip section to take advantage of the 321’s more rearward Center of Gravity. Additionally, Tom created a little longer tip parallel section than is found on traditional .335” graphite wood shafts, so that clubmakers would be able to custom trim to fit the particular golfer and also be able to use the GI-335 shaft with a special coiled shim in .370” bore long and middle-iron heads.

Clubhead Rear Center of Gravity (CG) 321 x-section

As Tom has addressed in previous TWGT technical publications, one of the most important effects of the CG in any clubhead is the effect it has on the forward bending of the shaft that takes place after the golfer un-hinges the wrist-cock on the downswing. Because of the more rearward CG in the 321 hybrid heads – far greater than on an iron – the 321 will hit the ball higher than its traditional iron counterpart even if it were used with a conventional .370” tip iron shaft. But with the .335” tip graphite shaft designed to match with the 321s, we have a deadly combination for golfers.

Face Progression/Offset/Onset

I speak with a lot of clubmakers who ask, “What’s the offset of the 321?” Well the 321 doesn’t have any offset but it still has the same hosel to leading edge appearance of an iron. The real offset measurement of the 321 heads is 0. Yet visually, it appears to the eye that there is a small “offset” because of the way the hosel blends into the face. Hybrids, which are designed with a similar “onset” to fairway woods, simply do not look good in the playing position because of their more narrow body shape. This subtle visual distinction allows a smoother transition to the irons.

The 321Li vs. Other Hybrids

In doing a little research, I looked up the specificaitons of one of the more popular hybrids froma major assembled club OEM. What I found was an interesting contrast to the design parameters that Tom created for the 321. I put together a little chart so that a side-by-side comparison could be made:

Club Loft Shaft Diameter Headweight Standard Length
321Li - #2 18° .355" 231g 39.5” steel / 40” graphite (or fit to golfer)
OEM - #2 16 .370 ? 40.5"
321Li - #3 21 .335 238 39” / 39.5” (or fit)
OEM - #3 19 .370 ? 40"
321Li - #4 24 .335 245 38.5” / 39” (or fit)
OEM - #4 22 .370 ? 39.5"
321Li - #5 28 .335 253 38” / 38.5” (or fit)
OEM - #5 25 .370 ? 39"

The first thing that really struck me was the strong lofts of the assembled OEM hybrids. We know that loft is the primary determinant in how high a ball will fly and strengthening them only makes this more difficult for the golfer. Additionally, the .370” tip minimizes how the Center of Gravity of the head affects the shaft bending. This isn’t to say that this club doesn’t produce good results for golfers, but it really isn’t a replacement for long irons as much as it is a toned down fairway wood with a larger tip diameter, which from an ease of hitting standpoint makes no sense for most golfers.

TWGT believes strongly that the purpose of a hybrid is to truly replace the conventional long irons with clubs that blend smoothly in with the other irons. Making hybrids as this major OEM does confuses the issues of distance between clubs.

Fitting the 321 Hybrid Long Irons

Now that we know the design/performance aspect of the 321, how do we incorporate that into the fitting process? How do we integrate hybrids with the total composition of the golfer’s set-make up? Whether low single-digit or 30+ handicapper, this is a club that will benefit all golfers as a replacement for their long irons. Of course some low handicap players may still want to have a conventional 3 and 4-iron in their set. But as witnessed at the British Open this summer, even some of the most skilled golfers are taking advantage of the design benefits. Personally, I don’t feel that I have lost any sense of control or “workability” using the 321 #3 (21°) as the replacement for my 550C #3-iron. In fact, from the mental side, I have more confidence in the 321 overall, so I know there is less tension in my swing when I set up for the shot.

Hitting conventional long irons properly requires the following swing mechanics for success: 1) a higher than average swing speed ( >80mph with the 5-iron) to generate more backspin to help keep the ball in the air. 2) Never allowing the clubhead to pass the hands before impact. 3) Keeping the head down and well behind the ball at impact. Obviously, these are swing moves that only the most skilled ball-strikers possess. Therefore, most golfers can and should replace their conventional low-loft irons with the 321 hybrids.

The most common sense way to fit the golfer for the 321 hybrids is first to determine what is the longest iron that they have the most confidence in hitting. Generally speaking with low handicap players that would be the #4 or even the #5. With middle handicap players that may be the #5 or 6-iron. With high handicap players it usually is the #6-iron or even the #7-iron (hmmm, does that mean Tom has a 321-6 in the works??). After all, TWGT is all about making shotmaking as easy as possible. With the stronger lofts that the golf industry has moved to for all iron sets today, even conventional 5-irons are tough to hit solid and high a high percentage of the time. Thus clubmakers should know to advise hybrids up to the point of the golfer’s longest conventional iron with which they have the most confidence in hitting.

For the length, the 321 hybrids should be assembled to continue in the same 1⁄2” length increment increase up from the longest conventional iron they will retain in their iron set. With the weight bore in each 321 head, building to the same swingweight as the other conventional irons is easily done.

If you are performing real MOI matching using the TWGT MOI Matching System, you will build the 321 hybrids’ MOI to match the same MOI you determine is best for the golfer’s irons.

If you haven’t yet exposed your golfers to how incredibly easy the 321s are to hit, you really are missing a golden opportunity to bring a whole new level of enjoyment in the game to a huge number of golfers. I know it’s made my game better and more profitable!

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Parting Shot – How I Sell TWGT Custom Made Clubs in My Shop

by John Moorman

Pretty darn easy, that’s how, and a lot easier than any other components I have ever worked with in my clubmaking. Like all of you, I have a ton of choices for components that I can use in my custom fitting, actually too many choices. And like a lot of you, I have known Tom Wishon and his too-numerous-to-count contributions to teaching us clubmakers the truths about fitting and clubmaking technology for many years. Truthfully, you could add up everything we have learned about clubmaking from Tom and it would be ten times what all of the other component companies have provided for us combined. And if you have not had the chance to meet Tom personally at any of the various clubmaking functions he has participated in, then for sure you have to know his technical writings and the innovation and quality he has stood for in each of his positions before finally starting his own company.

When I do a custom fitting, of course my first priority is to find out the game improvement goals of the golfer. What is it that they want to achieve with their new clubs? More distance, better accuracy, a change in ball flight, better feel with the club(s), or all of the above? These goals then stay in my mind as I take the golfer through the various measurements and swing analysis observations that I need to be able to start making decisions on the best specifications to allow the golfer to get to that point of achieving as many of their goals as possible.

At some point there comes a time in the fitting where the golfer is going to be very interested in what head, shaft, and grip I am going to recommend. After all, the golfer has to like what they are going to be looking at in the playing position, and have confidence in its performance and quality. Thus I have worked with Matt Mohi from TWGT to acquire a number of TWGT Demo heads, shafts and grips that I use in my shop for display to let the golfer look at while we talk about the custom clubs. Like most shops, there is no way that I can try to offer every design that a company like TWGT has. Not only is that too many models to stock or demo, but it becomes very confusing for the golfer as well to be able to keep things straight in their head. Matt did a super job of asking me questions about the clientele that I serve in my work, what types of players I generally see, and from that he made up his list of 2 models of irons and 2 driver and wood designs. This not only covered the design needs of my typical golfers, but it also makes things much less complicated to the golfer. If you’re not set up with TWGT Demo clubs yet, do call Matt at TWGT and he will not only guide you through to what you need without overloading you, but he’ll make you a heckuva deal on the DEMO clubs as well.

Since I have been a clubmaker for many years now, I am well aware of the fact that 99% of the golfers I serve will not have heard of the component clubhead model or brand I might be using. Sure, they’ve heard of all of the big OEM clubs from TV and big print ads in the magazines. So I am well aware that my job in talking to the golfer about the heads, or shafts and grips I am going to recommend to custom build for their game, is going to be one of trying to win their confidence. And this, I can tell you, is a very easy proposition with Tom’s designs as long as you know how to talk about them.

I always start out by saying, “I custom build with original designs from Tom Wishon Golf Technology. Most golfers have never heard of Tom because he has only designed within the custom clubmaking industry. But Tom is the ONLY designer from the component clubmaking industry whose designs have been used to win on the PGA Tour and in Ryder Cup competition.”

Usually at that point the golfer might say something like, “really, who has he designed for”? So I come back and say, “he has designed the clubs used by Scott Verplank, Ben Crenshaw, Bruce Lietzke and he had the honor of designing the last set of clubs used in competition by the late Payne Stewart”. I find that once the golfer hears something about the PGA Tour, that really goes a long way toward making them feel better about the components, since they will likely not have heard of Tom Wishon.

Then I usually talk about Tom’s design “firsts” to add further credibility. I will say, “I bet you don’t know who designed the very first Titanium driver first offered for sale by a US golf company? Well, it’s the same designer who came up with the graphite and metal wood design 9 years before Callaway came out with their Fusion driver this year!” And I inform them that happens to also be Tom Wishon.

Now at this point, 98% of the golfers I deal with are pretty well convinced that the Wishon Golf name on the head, shaft and grip of the clubs I will build for them is going to be pretty darn good, and I can go about showing them the heads I have in mind for them to use and start talking to them about the actual fitting specifications. But sometimes to drive the nail completely home in the mind of the golfer about the expertise behind the TWGT components, I will then tell them that Tom is a 10 year member of the Golf Digest Technical Panel (and every month you’ll see his name on the masthead of the magazine to prove it) and that he is the new Technical Advisor for the PGA.com on their web site.

And that’s it – that’s all I have to do with my customers to get them to not have one iota of doubt about the components I will be using to build their custom set. In the past, when I used other components, I always had to talk about the design style or say that these heads came from the same foundry that made heads for so and so company. But now it’s so easy to sell TWGT custom clubs by being able to talk about the experience behind the designs, that I really can focus most of my energy on the actual fitting for the golfer.

For you clubmakers who don’t consider yourselves much of a “salesman”, well neither do I. But I do know enough about sales in clubmaking to know that I have to take the first step in talking to my golfers. With all of the stories I can tell about the Tom’s background as the designer of TWGT custom components, it’s really easy – so if you’re not taking the approach I do with my customers, you need to start NOW. Believe me, it WILL make a huge difference in your business.

– John Moorman owns and operates Even Par Golf Company in Austin, TX. This is his first TECHreport contribution.

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