Durango
Challenge Tour Pro
Jut want to say a big thanks to Golf Monthly, Taylormade and Wentworth GC for a great day on Thursday. When I entered a few days prior I thought I'd have no chance, especially with me living 'oop North.' So I was pretty stunned to say the least when I saw the email from Joel saying I was in, good job I check my junk mail!
I traveled down on the Wednesday evening and took the missus for my sins and stopped in a devere hotel about ten minutes away. Didn't fancy setting off at 5am on the Thursday morning. Some of the properties around that area are incredible, not quite as incredible as the ones I saw near the golf club though. Wow!
Arrived at the Club slightly early (parked up in the members only area) but soon saw Jezz and a couple of the Taylormade lads. Must say I was pretty nervous so pleased I was given a couple of tokens for the driving range next door to the fitting bay to try and warm up a bit. A fella called Luke did the fitting,really nice guy and obviously knows his stuff! It's a really impressive place and they had all the driver combinations I suppose anybody would need.
As to the fitting, I started off hitting my titleist and was hitting that nicely. It's always interesting to look at the figures on the trackman and I was swinging at about 100mph, spin was slightly high though which seemed to rob me of some yardage. I tried the M1 first with the same rogue silver shaft as the titleist and the spin immediately dropped which saw some good distance gains. I wasn't getting as good a dispersion as I wanted though with a few too many shots leaking off right. I tried the M2 for a few shots and couldn't really feel much difference to the M1. I ended up getting fit for the M1 though with the Kuro Kage stiff shaft. The ability to just get it dialled in with the moving weights swung it for me and I felt I could just get it turning over right to left a bit easier. Plus it costs more!
Lovely to meet Jezz and the other two lads. It really is a great place to get fitted if you're after some TM gear, I can't recommend it highly enough. The only downer for me was being videoed at the end of the fitting and my brain turning to mush looking like a nervous wreck...erm ahh errrrr if any of that is usable then they are miracle workers haha! Oh and being at such a great course and not being able to play a few holes but you can't have everything! Canni wait to get the club now and put it into action. Thanks again for a brilliant day :thup:
I traveled down on the Wednesday evening and took the missus for my sins and stopped in a devere hotel about ten minutes away. Didn't fancy setting off at 5am on the Thursday morning. Some of the properties around that area are incredible, not quite as incredible as the ones I saw near the golf club though. Wow!
Arrived at the Club slightly early (parked up in the members only area) but soon saw Jezz and a couple of the Taylormade lads. Must say I was pretty nervous so pleased I was given a couple of tokens for the driving range next door to the fitting bay to try and warm up a bit. A fella called Luke did the fitting,really nice guy and obviously knows his stuff! It's a really impressive place and they had all the driver combinations I suppose anybody would need.
As to the fitting, I started off hitting my titleist and was hitting that nicely. It's always interesting to look at the figures on the trackman and I was swinging at about 100mph, spin was slightly high though which seemed to rob me of some yardage. I tried the M1 first with the same rogue silver shaft as the titleist and the spin immediately dropped which saw some good distance gains. I wasn't getting as good a dispersion as I wanted though with a few too many shots leaking off right. I tried the M2 for a few shots and couldn't really feel much difference to the M1. I ended up getting fit for the M1 though with the Kuro Kage stiff shaft. The ability to just get it dialled in with the moving weights swung it for me and I felt I could just get it turning over right to left a bit easier. Plus it costs more!
Lovely to meet Jezz and the other two lads. It really is a great place to get fitted if you're after some TM gear, I can't recommend it highly enough. The only downer for me was being videoed at the end of the fitting and my brain turning to mush looking like a nervous wreck...erm ahh errrrr if any of that is usable then they are miracle workers haha
! Oh and being at such a great course and not being able to play a few holes but you can't have everything! Canni wait to get the club now and put it into action. Thanks again for a brilliant day :thup:
