upsidedown
Tour Winner
Many many thanks to the guys from Golf Monthly and TaylorMade for organising today and in particular, Jake from GM, Dan from TM and Matt the TM fitter , all recorded on the day by Mike the photographer :thup:
Spent the night before about 30 mins away in Hook so was up bright eyed and bushy tailed ready for the off and met the guys in the car park at 7.15 and fair play to Smigger79 ( Mick I think , apologies if wrong ) who left at 3.30 am
Bit rainy and cool but thankfully West Hill have a very good range and all under cover, even if a 5 min walk from the clubhouse.
I was up first and warmed up with trusty 7 iron and then my driver.
Matt got me to hit some balls with my Titleist 913 D2, regular shaft and 9.5 to get some ideas of my shot shape and my bad shot !!
Started off with the M2 but after 5-6 balls we realised this wasn't the one for me so changed to trying the M1 in a regular shaft and by now I was really warmed up and starting to swing round the 101 mph which for an old grunter like me guess isn't too bad Matt was not happy with the numbers so we swapped to stiff shaft but a tad lighter than mt Titleist. Hit some more and some tinkering really tightened up my dispersion and pretty much eliminating my bad shot , which it a block right.
By now I was flagging from lack of breakfast so let Mick come in for his fitting and I was very happy to tuck into the bacon roll and tea which Jake had fetched from the clubhouse.
Chatted to the guys and did the picture thing for the mag then it was time for the Longest drive comp between the old and the new . Hit 3 with the old then one with the new when Matt stopped me and swapped my M1 for another one and BOOM hit probably the best drive of the day and certainly one of my best of the year and followed it up with two corkers What did he tweak/change? Well all will be revealed in the mag in hopefully next but one issue
All in all a great 3 hours spent and can't wait to get the new M1 to try out on the course, alas due to other commitments had to head home .
Once again many thanks for all those who put today together :clap:
Spent the night before about 30 mins away in Hook so was up bright eyed and bushy tailed ready for the off and met the guys in the car park at 7.15 and fair play to Smigger79 ( Mick I think , apologies if wrong ) who left at 3.30 am
Bit rainy and cool but thankfully West Hill have a very good range and all under cover, even if a 5 min walk from the clubhouse.
I was up first and warmed up with trusty 7 iron and then my driver.
Matt got me to hit some balls with my Titleist 913 D2, regular shaft and 9.5 to get some ideas of my shot shape and my bad shot !!
Started off with the M2 but after 5-6 balls we realised this wasn't the one for me so changed to trying the M1 in a regular shaft and by now I was really warmed up and starting to swing round the 101 mph which for an old grunter like me guess isn't too bad
Matt was not happy with the numbers so we swapped to stiff shaft but a tad lighter than mt Titleist. Hit some more and some tinkering really tightened up my dispersion and pretty much eliminating my bad shot , which it a block right.By now I was flagging from lack of breakfast so let Mick come in for his fitting and I was very happy to tuck into the bacon roll and tea which Jake had fetched from the clubhouse.
Chatted to the guys and did the picture thing for the mag then it was time for the Longest drive comp between the old and the new . Hit 3 with the old then one with the new when Matt stopped me and swapped my M1 for another one and BOOM hit probably the best drive of the day and certainly one of my best of the year and followed it up with two corkers
What did he tweak/change? Well all will be revealed in the mag in hopefully next but one issue All in all a great 3 hours spent and can't wait to get the new M1 to try out on the course, alas due to other commitments had to head home .
Once again many thanks for all those who put today together :clap:
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