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So me and a few other forumites (plus some guys from another forum!, Another forum?!! There is only 1 surely!!) were invited to the HQ of Taylormade by Jimbob Someroooooooo.
Met up in reception to see all sorts of memorabilia, most of note was Justin Rose's bag and clubs from his US open win. The 8 of us then went to one of their meeting rooms, surrounded by every club in their range, tons of bags, hats etc etc. We then met Sean (insert surname here) who talked tech to us, was a very open forum and he answered all questions very honestly, openly admitted that they have recently launched too many products etc etc.. went on the say that most of their R&D guys are pretty much all ex aeronautical engineers, so have some pretty radical ideas!!
We then went on a tour of the warehouse, saw some horrors in the returns bin, then went to the customer build areas, pretty impressive stuff!
then we met Daryl, whom i had met before, he took us through the tour story of the hows and whys, who is a diva on tour, who changes clubs the least etc etc, then we finally went back to the meeting room to be met by the commercial director of TM, who again was very open and honest.
They admitted that TM as an organisation have become a little disconnected from us, the consumer and they are trying to fix that with days like today, roadshows, etc etc.
All in all, a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, got to put faces to BT@Home and Hawkeye also.
Then finally we all tried to steal as much as we could, unfortunately James was wise to this and we left with nothing, except a nice little goodie bag including a cap, towel, sleeve of TP X balls, pen and keyring!
Thank you James for organising this, i think the session was really really interesting and i thoroughly enjoyed it!
Didnt manage to get any decent pics, was too busy talking or listening! But if James ever offers this up again, get on it people!!
Met up in reception to see all sorts of memorabilia, most of note was Justin Rose's bag and clubs from his US open win. The 8 of us then went to one of their meeting rooms, surrounded by every club in their range, tons of bags, hats etc etc. We then met Sean (insert surname here) who talked tech to us, was a very open forum and he answered all questions very honestly, openly admitted that they have recently launched too many products etc etc.. went on the say that most of their R&D guys are pretty much all ex aeronautical engineers, so have some pretty radical ideas!!
We then went on a tour of the warehouse, saw some horrors in the returns bin, then went to the customer build areas, pretty impressive stuff!
then we met Daryl, whom i had met before, he took us through the tour story of the hows and whys, who is a diva on tour, who changes clubs the least etc etc, then we finally went back to the meeting room to be met by the commercial director of TM, who again was very open and honest.
They admitted that TM as an organisation have become a little disconnected from us, the consumer and they are trying to fix that with days like today, roadshows, etc etc.
All in all, a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, got to put faces to BT@Home and Hawkeye also.
Then finally we all tried to steal as much as we could, unfortunately James was wise to this and we left with nothing, except a nice little goodie bag including a cap, towel, sleeve of TP X balls, pen and keyring!
Thank you James for organising this, i think the session was really really interesting and i thoroughly enjoyed it!
Didnt manage to get any decent pics, was too busy talking or listening! But if James ever offers this up again, get on it people!!
