Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
I haven't read that name in any of the posts.
Are they available, there.
They're pretty good.
Are they available, there.
They're pretty good.
Are Epon golf clubs sold in the United Kingdom?
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GG26
Challenge Tour Pro
Never heard of that brand - I suspect that they haven’t made it over here. How are they perceived in the US?
yes at specialist fitters, one of the guys play with has a set... Jap forged for those that don't know what they are.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
More or less a custom-ordered boutique item similar to Miura, Epon clubheads are imported by Fairway Jockey and assembled into clubs as ordered by the fitter or the customer directly.
I have one of their driving irons--an excellent club on the tee of tight driving holes and a crutch for one of my iidiosyncrasies.
I like hitting driving irons into tight landing areas but prefer lofted fairway woods into greens.
Makes for unusual set configurations.
But I digree. Epon is not a big name in the US but is generally well-regarded among gearheads.
Parsaregood
Head Pro
Yes you can buy them from places that specialise in japanese forging, expensive for what they are though but they are quality irons
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
That Nairn course for which you post a link looks absolutely beautiful.
I'm sure it would eat me up and spit me out, but it does look spectacular.
you should see it after the course changes, the bits you see are the old course, thats a piece of piss compared to the M&E changes, now there are bunkers in the middle of every fairway..... to coin a phrase ..... was overrated
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Thank God that American course architects aren't enamored of fairway bunkers.
Nothing like being punished for hitting a fairway.
Nothing like being punished for hitting a fairway.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Strictly speaking, if you stuff it in a bunker, you haven't hit the fairway.
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
You haven't played the new Himaayas loop at Princes then murph; you might review that opinion if you had.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
The old layout was easy as. My worst round there was 2 under, gross. Shore and Dunes, got me every time.
Would still argue that a drive into a bunker isn't a good drive. If it is within range, you need to go tactical.
Would still argue that a drive into a bunker isn't a good drive. If it is within range, you need to go tactical.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
What if you hit it 250 yards into a bunker, that's not really 'stuffing' it.
For the record I don't really mind fairway bunkers, just makes you think more about what club you're hitting. My mate who plays off 30 absolutely despises them, and like the poster above, believes he is essentially being punished for hitting a fairway. He'll get furious if he goes in one - quite funny to be honest.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
It's still in a bunker. Or the rough, or a penalty area. None of these qualify as being on the fairway, however far they are from the tee.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I just mean I get why people wouldn't like them. If you go in the rough you've typically pushed/pulled/hooked etc so you've hit a bad shot. But with fairways bunkers you can hit a perfect long, straight tee shot and go in one. But all it takes is a bit of forward planning and hitting something that won't reach it of course. It's more of a course management error than a bad shot error I guess.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
For sure, but you have to think why the course designer put it there. For sure, it is no accident thst it is there. So either you were meant to go right of it, left of it, or short of it. If you end up in it, you played the wrong shot, and were not trying to play the hole as the designer wanted. In this instance, long and straight was not the answer to the question asked.
Scoobiesnax
Assistant Pro
Alas I was to play there this weekend but the weather has put an end to that one!
Russ_D
Club Champion
You can buy Epon clubs on Amazon. Don't think they'll be the top spec ones though.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Fair enough and quite true. But the vast majority of American fairway bunkers, which are fewer in number to begin with, are to the side of the fairways. Bunkers in the middle of fairways are a British thing. Makes playing a course for the first time quite exasperating, I would think. Maybe not so much now with GPS.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
You often see one 30-40 yards short of a green rather than in the driving area and particularly on very old courses. It was an old ploy before the days of yardage charts to make estimating the distance harder to do.
Our course was built in 1919/20 originally with a few cross bunkers, mainly designed to catch very poorly hit second shots rather than impede good drives.
our place over the years has had its bunkering changed 4 or 5 times. back in the 30's there were something like 170 bunkers on the course, went down to 130, then 120 then 96 back 120 again for the Walker Cup, now chanhing again with the Mackenzie and Ebert redesign goin on at the moment. I'm told most started on on the fairway with about 30 /40 ish on the middle of the fairway, as they narrowed the course some that were edge are now in the rough, i think we may be down to around about 120 again once the new layout is done
