Hakusa Golf

alwaysunderpar - do you know this ebay seller? You may save yourself a few quid....and they are in France (unless this is you )

Hasuka Ebay

Good luck with the wedges :cool:
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Nice one, will drop him a line.

Question about Geek, I go over the states alot and was lucky enough to attend the Remax world long drive, what a day! ended up with their clubs. The driver is 7° and god does it go! Quality is fantastic and pricing is good. As per my original comments the shaft is the expensive bit.

Why are you guys so negative about trying new products? I find it bizarre you have to make sarcastic unfounded comments on something. If you can't afford to buy something and try it why slag it off? Hand made clubs are something special. I drive what I think is a nice motor, although some people choose a banger right?

All I have heared is "overpriced" etc etc, People pay £100 for a brand like Titliest that are manufactured by the million, so who's the mugs then? could it be the consumers buying something that costs £2 in China to make?

Take a look at hirekogolf.com email them for a pricelist "consumer" You will see that "cast" iron heads like Ping cost approx $5 for YOU to buy, so we all know Ping spend millions and millions every year on Tour players and marketing, where does that money come from?

Please stop replying with inanae comments to factual posts. The village championship is coming up soon and several of you have already started practising :)

I suggest to the negative people who don't agree with quality of hand made forged clubs, go and try one with your pro. It's a myth that blades are harder to hit than cavities, complete myth.
 
At the end of the day no doubt this fella has worked hard to earn his money over the years (or if he hasnt then good on him :D
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Cheers johnboy, Thats exactly what I will do! A golf forum I always thought was supposed to be a place to exchange sensible comments and opinions, My original post simply asked for comments. I then received some clown telling me more money than sense, got to laugh...

Your first in line johnboy :)
 
Well I have been on many forums for many different hobbies; I have yet to go on one where arguments or hostile posts or however you want to put it did not appear. This being a golf forum I considered that it would be pretty inert.

I’ll be pretty clear about my stand point on this post. The author starts the post with “Hakusa Golf is now in Europe, anybody tried the wedges or blades? thinking of investing in it. Ideas guys? “

I read it and had never seen the brand before so I pop to the website and what is see is pure beauty. The wedges just look so nice and so well made. I read a little about how they are made and it makes me think of a few programs I have seen about making “real” samari swords, real quality time consuming handmade metal work.

Then I see the guy’s bio and I don’t know any of the brands in there either so I look them up and it seems to be more of the same. Later in the post the guy tells us that he has worked in the golf industry for 20+ years.

So he has made his money (I guess) he knows allot of people in the industry he has a passion for quality and this quality club style clearly gives him confidence. I would guess he has tried everything else.

If I had the money to buy what I wanted when I wanted I would. I used to be a PC nut and was not married so I would buy a new graphics card every few months and overclock the HELL out of it till it blew up, then I would get a new one. It’s the same.

What makes more sense than spending your well earned money on something you love? For me I have to wait till birthdays for new equipment, this year my wife went to our place in France and I did not as I wanted a new putter, but If I was a wealthy man I would try every new club on the market then I would come on here and tell what I found.

The only difference between boys and men is the price of their toys.
 
"It's a myth that blades are harder to hit than cavities, complete myth"

explain please?
 
I don't see what the big deal is. There has always been a market in Japan for high end craftsman equipment, and I am sure this stuff is as well qualified to be in that market as most of the better recognised names such as Miura.

It is also not true that none of the Tour players use this stuff. In Japan, many Tour players do, and as stated above, a lot of the sets of clubs seen in US and European Tour players bags may resemble the stuff you see in American golf, but it isn't.

TM Golf is possibly the biggest offender. You can but a set of TP irons, which look nice. None of the Tour players use these. They use a set which looks similar, but is known as the B set. There is also a C set for those who don;'t like the B set. Both are made in a different factory from the retail set. Even some of the top amateurs who get fitted for TM get offered this set rather than the retail set. Also, many TM Tour players use shafts that are not available to the public as custom options from TM. Surprise surprise, all of these get painted in the standard TM colours so the viewer thinks the pro is using the same shaft as they can but.

If anyone doesn't want to buy a custom Japan wedge, there is no compulsion for them to do so. But if someone else wants to do so, good luck to them. I hope they lay well with it.
 
Nice post Alex. I am a self confessed golf equipment nut. I try everything (everything) I was in the Golf industry for over 20 years, been almost everywhere (just Japan left)going in October for a few weeks..

My comments about blades: My personal experience is that high handicappers do shoot better golf with a correct fully fitted set of decent bats. Custom fitting is the key. There are two types of custom fitting. The first is a Pro who gets you to hit balls of a plastic board, then sells you 1 degree down + regular shaft, then there's proper custom fitting. Search podcasts for "Tom Wishon" very very good, it explains everything in detail, I recommend £1 spent on that download from itunes would open alot of peoples eyes. I gaurantee somebody thinking of buying a set of mass produced bats won't after they listen to it!

I am very fortunate that I get to play the top courses, I even played San Roque 2 the first week it opened. Again my personal experience and the club makers expereince is that a well fitted (full fitting shafts etc weights) will allow anyone to play better golf with blades. More feel etc etc.

Again, my personal view is I would never even dream of buying a set of casts clubs in a million years. One thing I can say is if the tour players did not received obscene amounts of money for using the manufacturers clubs what would they play with given free run? Now theres an interesting question.

I struggle to maintain a handicap of 4 purely because I play alot of different courses, but if somebody regulary (twice a week) plays the same course and is not improving then should be asking the questions why.

I have a pal of mine over here who runs a driving range, he is an EGTF Pro and plays off scratch (he won everything at Vigiers for 10 years) he is a specialist in lessons and plays blades. No he isn't a PGA pro (that will open a new set of arguments I reckon) but his students play far better golf as he makes custom sets using custom components for them.

So, to sum up, Blades are no harder to work with than cavities (IF) they are fully properly fitted, any they look better. Toys for boys is right Alex and why not..

(Now expecting a backlash on EGTF) lol
 
I don't see what the big deal is. There has always been a market in Japan for high end craftsman equipment, and I am sure this stuff is as well qualified to be in that market as most of the better recognised names such as Miura.

It is also not true that none of the Tour players use this stuff. In Japan, many Tour players do, and as stated above, a lot of the sets of clubs seen in US and European Tour players bags may resemble the stuff you see in American golf, but it isn't.

TM Golf is possibly the biggest offender. You can but a set of TP irons, which look nice. None of the Tour players use these. They use a set which looks similar, but is known as the B set. There is also a C set for those who don;'t like the B set. Both are made in a different factory from the retail set. Even some of the top amateurs who get fitted for TM get offered this set rather than the retail set. Also, many TM Tour players use shafts that are not available to the public as custom options from TM. Surprise surprise, all of these get painted in the standard TM colours so the viewer thinks the pro is using the same shaft as they can but.

If anyone doesn't want to buy a custom Japan wedge, there is no compulsion for them to do so. But if someone else wants to do so, good luck to them. I hope they lay well with it.
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Nice post Ethan, wish I had ne' started this post now :) lol, horses for courses as you say quite factually. Why I get mad is when somebody originally goes off topic talking shi**
 
And so it would appear that the OP may or may not be selling them.

Though the price argument is an interesting one.

I used to sail with a chap that wore a very expensive Breiting watch, that was his cheap watch! Excessive? For me it would have been. But as a percentage of his income, it cost less than my Casio did for me.

In that context. These handmade clubs may have cost the OP less than what's currently in my bag!
Whether or not I'd be able to do such expensive clubs justice is very debatable though.

Especially if he got them at cost. :-)
 
Alwaysunderpar,
Ignore the posters slagging you off for buying expensive equipment. I took a look at the Hakusa website and they are a thing of beauty.
If they perform as well as they look, then it's money well spent in my book.

Good luck with them.
 
Alwaysunderpar,
Ignore the posters slagging you off for buying expensive equipment. I took a look at the Hakusa website and they are a thing of beauty.
If they perform as well as they look, then it's money well spent in my book.

Good luck with them.
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Cheers Rick, It will be an interesting point of discussion when they arrive next week. Get yourself on itunes and search for "Tom Wishon" about an hour long but hey really informative :)
 
Alwaysunderpar,
Ignore the posters slagging you off for buying expensive equipment. I took a look at the Hakusa website and they are a thing of beauty.
If they perform as well as they look, then it's money well spent in my book.

Good luck with them.
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Cheers Rick, It will be an interesting point of discussion when they arrive next week. Get yourself on itunes and search for "Tom Wishon" about an hour long but hey really informative :)
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yep this sounds right up my street!! geeky golf fitting chatter!
 
I cant wait for the review to go up next week when you get the wedges, can just imagine the comments you will get if you say they are cr*p, lol.

Best thing to do if you dont like them is just lie and say they are great :D. Although looking at them, I dont think you will have to lie
 
Why I get mad is when somebody originally goes off topic talking shi**
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Oi!!

If I wasn't allowed to do that, I'd have nothing to say.

:p

PS

You keep having an off centre view - it gives my brain something to ponder.

Not saying you're right.

But that it's interesting.

;)

PPS

If someone has already got dibs on the wedges, I'll settle for the Geek stuff. :D
 
Whats the difference between spending 170£ on a wedge or 170£ on a scotty cameron putter or even the new oddeseys? think about it some of the clubs in our bags are worth 170£ brand new i no there not in the same catergory but my driver was worth 200£ when new and no one think thats expensive its the same price as other drivers.

At the end of the day i think am with alwaysunderpar you get what you pay for and if you have money then why not most people work hard for the money they earn.
 
£165? .. cant get a decent bottle of wine for that at Vigiers lol
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As you can usually only get French wine in France, that would be the reason I suppose :p :p

:D :D :D :D
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our spar is doing 3 bottles for a tenner!!! :D
its all about what you can afford. it seems that always under par is on another level compared to most of us.if i could afford it i would have hand made clubs, hand made cars, hand made shirts, and stuff it a hand maid!! there are certain cars that a lot of us would buy (dream cars) if we had the means.
now always under par, im an only child no living relatives and need a father figure! yours hopefully bigslice age 37. :D
 
£165? .. cant get a decent bottle of wine for that at Vigiers lol
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As you can usually only get French wine in France, that would be the reason I suppose :p :p

:D :D :D :D
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our spar is doing 3 bottles for a tenner!!! :D
its all about what you can afford. it seems that always under par is on another level compared to most of us.if i could afford it i would have hand made clubs, hand made cars, hand made shirts, and stuff it a hand maid!! there are certain cars that a lot of us would buy (dream cars) if we had the means.
now always under par, im an only child no living relatives and need a father figure! yours hopefully bigslice age 37. :D
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Steady now... :)
 
the clubs look stunning but it's Les Bordes I'm interested in! it has become the course I'd most like to play - you can keep Augusta :D. absolutely the best website too.
 
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