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19Apr/130

Customer Story: Steve M, From 12 to 9 handicap

Player Update Customer Story

Steve M, got in touch and we are delighted to share his story. Steve’s irons and fairway clubs were holding him back with a major loss of accuracy from poorly built clubs. He needed more stability from the shaft and his clubs needed to be built to suit him and balanced better to match his rhythm

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During the analysis, we could see Steve's swing is full and well rounded, but the ball is hit with the hands and arms rather than the body and is not generating as much energy as he probably could do. So to help the club to create more energy for distance, as well and helping with the distance control side of his game and accuracy

the problem

 

 

His old original set
Fazer Oversized Irons with 65g Regular Flex Graphite
Adams A7 Hybrid 2/3/4/5 with UST Mamiya Blue 85g Regular

  • The shafts need to come up a little in length to allow his to keep taller through the ball and encourage more rotation through the ball.
  • The shafts are lacking in a little strength to keep the ball straighter in flight
  • The clubs although already graphite are too heavy in head weight and need to be much lighter in balance for speed.

thesolution

 

 

His new ForeGolf Clubs

Cobra S3 Irons  with Aldila NV-3 Stiff Flex Graphite
Taylor Made Burner SuperFast 2.0 4 Wood (16.5*) with Oban Devotion 5 – 4 Flex
Taylor Made RBZ Hybrid 4(22*)  with Graphite Design Aura 65g Stiff

  • More balance from lighter weight clubs in both the head and shaft for more consistent rhythm from the swing and better deliveryof the club head to the ball.
  • With additional length in the clubs he can stand taller to the ball and create a better turn through the ball. This equates to more distance.
  • Increase the stiffness of the graphite shafts to produce more spin and accuracy control through the shaft creates massive gains in consistency of yardages and improved flight.

theresults

 

 

Since getting the clubs in stages from July 2011 onwards:

  • 2 Hole-in-one’s
  • Winner of his first Intermediate Scratch Cup – MoyValley – By 5 Shots !
  • Handicap reduction from 12 to 9 – First time ever into single figures.
  • Shot his lowest round ever of 73.

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We've told Steve's story before, when he shared his first bit of good news

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20Mar/130

The shortlist of the 2013 equipment

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The shortlist of the 2013 equipment available for fitting and building at ForeGolf

With the Masters looming, the golf season has officially started at ForeGolf. We have a full product range available in L/H and R/H Gents and Ladies. We have matched it all to a huge range of specialist shafts that we have tested to perform perfectly with each product and to suit every type of golfer but mostly spending time making sure we can get every ounce of performance from each brand by combining it with high performance shafts.

So what’s new to help you play better and get some crystal on the mantelpiece for 2013 ?

  • Taylor Made

The R1 driver
RocketBallz Stage 2 driver
RocketBallz Stage 2 Fairway woods and rescues
RocketBladez irons
RocketBladez Tour irons

  • Cobra

Amp Cell Pro driver.
Amp Cell driver, fairway woods and hybrids
Amp cell irons.

  • Wilson

D-100 Driver. Fairway woods and hybrids.
FG62, FG Tour and FG Tour V2 forged irons.

  • Titleist

913 Drivers, fairway woods and hybrids

  • Callaway

Razr-Fit Extreme drivers and fairway woods.
X-Hot Pro Driver and fairway woods.
X-Utility Prototype hybrid
Legacy Black forged irons
Razr XF irons
X-Hot irons.

  • Nike

VRS Covert Tour driver, fairway woods and hybrids.
VRS Covert driver, fairway woods, hybrids and irons.

  •  Mizuno

JPX 825 Fairway woods and hybrids.
MP-650 fairway woods and hybrids
MP-69, MP-59, MP-64, JPX 825 and 825 Pro irons.

  • Srixon Cleveland

ZTX Forged Limited Edition Tour Spec irons.

  • Shafts

Miyazaki Kusala and B.Asha White, Indigo and Black in 56, 61 and 72 grams woods.
Miyazaki C-Kua irons.
Aldila Phenom, Trinity and Magnum NV in 44 and 50 grams woods.
Project X Black woods.
PXi irons.
PXv Tour woods.
Project X 95 Flighted irons.
Grafalloy New Blue with speed coat technology woods.
True Temper Tour Concept irons.
True Temper BiMatrx Tour Prototype woods.
Nippon Modus Tour 120 and 130 irons.
NS Pro Regio formula woods.

  • Grips

Golf Pride Multi Compound White Out
Golf Pride VDR
Lamkin 3-Gen
Golf Pride Irish Patriot – Irish pride grip

 

  • The new adjustable product can perform differently so you need to be fitted to get the correct club set up.
  • If you’re a new customer let us show you how custom built clubs can out-perform your standard clubs.
  • If you have been to see us before, you will need another session so we can compare the performance of your current built by ForeGolf clubs and allow you make an informed decision before you make any changes.

30 minute custom fitting analysis: 1 Club (Woods) Costs €50 or
1 hour custom fitting analysis: Full Bag (every club) Costs €100

Phone 045 430660 to book an appointment

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Read the ForeGolf reviews of the 2013 product - read previous articles

 

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20Mar/130

Golf Digest Ireland Review: TaylorMade R1 Driver and Rocketballz Fairway Woods & Rescue

Golf Digest Ireland

As you know Derek Murray from ForeGolf is the Equipment Editor for Golf Digest Magazine, Ireland's only monthly golf magazine.

It combines the best all that is golf from around the world and Ireland. Packed with tuition from the best in the game, feature interviews with our favourite players, tournament previews, overseas travel and equipment reviews. We promised to give you the inside story, so here's Derek's equipment article just for you.

 

Read Derek's review of the new TaylorMade Golf R1 Driver and Rocketballz Stage 2 Fairway Woods and Rescue

 

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Golf Digest Ireland TaylorMade R1 Review

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19Mar/130

Can the wrong golf grip affect your game ?

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Have you seen the ForeGolf Grip Station in our WorkShop ?

The air vice, grip solvent squirter and tape dispenser are all designed to make sure your grips go on straight and exactly the way we fitted you. We made a quick video giving you a birds eye view of putting on grips.

 

It might sound crazy but if the grips are not the right weight and put on correctly it can affect the club.

We had a situation recently, where one of our guys changed his grips and struggled to hit his clubs. He had put on a heavier grip then we had on his clubs and changed the balance of the clubs. This back weighting changed the correct swingweight and feel of the head making it much lighter and that made the flex of the shaft much stiffer. The ball flight lowered, the lie angle went flatter and the the ball started to fade and cut to the right.

All because he put a different grip on !

Be careful and get your grips done by us, the experts. We're all about improving your skill set but this is not a simple DIY job and its not something worth getting wrong.

 

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8Mar/130

Outstanding Small Business at SFA Awards

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The SFA National Small Business Awards 2013 for Achievement, Innovation and Excellence 

This month we had a hugely rewarding experience, on Thursday 7th March 2013 in the halls of Trinity College in Dublin, we were happy enough to be shortlisted as a finalist in the SFA (Small Firms Association) Awards in the Outstanding Small Business category. To get dressed up and spend an evening with people who share a like-minded approach of great service, superb products and a hunger to succeed was good enough for us.

You can imagine our delight when our name was called and we were presented with Highly Commended in the Outstanding Small Business category.

Back in 2010, winning the World Clubmaker of the Year was a great milestone for us and now to be singled out as an Outstanding Small Business shows we are not afraid to keep punching above our weight as a small, independent family run business.

A massive thanks to every one of our customers and especially for all the "Good Luck"  messages on Twitter and Facebook, your support means a lot to us and we appreciate everyone who took the time to get in touch.

A tweet from @MarkPNeville summed up what we try and do everyday.

 

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Also many thanks to the SFA, all the sponsors, our fellow finalists and congratulations to all the category winners
For more detail SFA Press Release

ForeGolf Small Firms SFA Awards 2013

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25Feb/130

ForeGolf Review: Titleist 913 Fairway and Hybrid Woods

Titleist 913 Fairway Wood

Reviewed by Dave Williams

With the introduction of the new Titleist 913 fairway woods and hybrids to the market place, there is a new contender for the low handicapper or better ball striker. The product range includes two new Fairway Woods and a Hybrid

Fairway Woods

  • 913F.d low spin  (13.5* & 15*)
  • 913F  (13.5*, 15*, 17*, 19* & 21*)

Hybrid

  • 913H (17*, 19*, 21*, 24* & 27*).

All of the new woods feature a revised SureFit® Tour hosel technology. The hosel is physically shorter in length, in the fairway woods, and then shorter again in the hybrid clubs. This creates a much more solid feel from the clubs. All of the usual loft, lie and face angle adjustment still apply, just with a better feel from the more compact hosel.

  • The 913F.d low spin, is a front weighted, larger head profiled product design to produce low launch and spin.
  • The 913F is a traditional back weighted, high launching and low spinning pear shape head design, which looks fantastic.
  • As far as hybrid clubs go, there are very few prettier to look down upon in the market place, as it squares up perfectly to the ball.

Some points for you to remember

  • In a high speed player, this product rivals all of the contenders as it feels so solid and quick off the face. The ball speeds rival all the category leaders but it is a product that needs speed to get it to go.
  • If you are looking to pick up distance as a slower player this is probably not the product for you. Much higher ball speeds can be produced from the other products in their relevant product categories.
  • It is all very much designed like Titleist product of past with the good player in mind, who is looking for exceptional ball flight and launch control.
  • However, with pretty much everything in the golf industry there is a down side to this product, and in this case, it is cost. The product is super expensive even for Titleist, and getting the shaft correct to control the ball flight is essential, but shaft up-charges are very high.
  • There is the potential to get a hybrid club costing €290 and there are even more expensive shaft options than that as well.
  • Essentially a brilliant product for very good player, who generates high speed but this all comes at too higher cost in our opinion.

Available at ForeGolf

  • Available for custom fitting now and new orders from 8th February 2013
  • A custom fitting analysis to help find the correct set up and decide if the new 913 is suited to you.
    30 minute custom fitting analysis: 1 Club (Woods) Costs €50 or
    1 hour custom fitting analysis: Full Bag (every club) Costs €100

Phone 045 430660 to book an appointment

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13Feb/130

What would you pay to get clubs that made you a better golfer ?

How much would you pay for clubs that made you a better golfer
Do our clubs cost the earth compared to on-line or off the shelf ?  We took a recent order from a customer and researched it as if he bought the clubs elsewhere.

We are only €92.69 more, this includes the 1 hour custom fit analysis to guarantee that the clubs are correctly fitted, built to exact measurements and will actually work .... which the online shop can’t do or guarantee.

Online Golf Shop 

  • Taylor Made R1 with TP shaft and Multi Compound Grip:  € 455.75
  • Taylor Made RBZ Stage 2 Tour 3 wood with TP shaft and MCC Grip:  € 301.22
  • Taylor Made RBZ Stage 2 Tour Rescue with TP shaft and MCC Grip:  € 218.00
  • Taylor Made RocketBladez Gents 4-GW with Nippon 950 shafts and MCC Grips:  € 733.50
  • Cleveland CG15 Black Pearl 56* SW with MCC Grip:  € 56.80
  • Taylor Made MicroLite 3 Stand bag:  € 100.99
  • Taylor Made White Smoke Indy putter:  € 71.05
    Online Golf Shop Total: € 1,937.31

ForeGolf 

  • Taylor Made R1 with TP shaft and Multi Compound Grip:  € 470.00.
  • Taylor Made RBZ Stage 2 Tour 3 wood with TP shaft and MCC Grip:  € 290.00
  • Taylor Made RBZ Stage 2 Tour Rescue with TP shaft and MCC Grip:  € 245.00
  • Taylor Made RocketBladez Gents 4-GW with Nippon 950 shafts and MCC Grips:  € 770.00
  • Cleveland CG15 Black Pearl 56* SW with MCC Grip:  FOC with Irons.
  • Taylor Made MicroLite 3 Stand bag:  FOC with Full set order.
  • Taylor Made White Smoke Indy putter:  € 155.00
  • Full Bag Analysis and fitting:  € 100.00
    ForeGolf Total: € 2,030.00


Total Price Difference €93


Book a custom fitting analysis, phone 045 430660
30 minute custom fitting analysis:  1 club (only Driver or only Irons etc):  Costs €50
1 hour custom fitting analysis: Full Bag, every club:  Costs €100

Want to see how other we've helped other golfers ? read our customer stories

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* The clubs were priced 31/01/13 from an Irish online retailer and ForeGolf.

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11Feb/130

Customer Story: Nigel Doherty from standard to winning (via ForeGolf clubs)

Player Profile

by Dave Williams

If you've ever wanted to see a before and after story of how playing with ForeGolf custom built clubs can make an improvement over standard clubs, I'd like to share Nigel Doherty's story.

Nigel's Swing Characteristics

  • A well rounded swing, that can be a little over the top and steep at times, that is made worse by the current set of clubs that he is playing with
  • Good balance , and a decent ability to make a solid turn.
  • Lacking in power, hence the club needs to aid in producing it, with also aiding with consistency and control.

What was wrong
His current clubs, standard set of TaylorMade Irons
TaylorMade Burner 2.0 65g Regular Flex Graphite.

  • The shafts were too short in length creating a poor posture and more moving parts in the swing than he needs to have.
  • The shafts were too weak in flex meaning there is a miss right, as the shaft lags open at impact.
  • The swing weight of the clubs was too heavy especially in the head, creating a steep swing plane.

The Solution
What changes we made to improve his game, his new ForeGolf clubs
Cobra AMP Irons - Cobra Aldila AMP 65g Stiff Flex Graphite

  • Bring the shafts length up to get him into a better posture for swinging the club, and making a better shoulder turn
  • Bring the swingweight of clubs down to make it easier from him to swing the club, through better balance of the new weight.
  • Increase the stiffness of the graphite shafts to produce more consistent lower spin and accuracy control through the shafts deliverance!

The Result
In the first 10 rounds of golf, Nigel won

  • 2 First Places
  • 1 Third Place
  • One round @ 4 under which was beaten on BOT for 2nd and 3rd
  • Shaved 3 shots off his handicap – was 14 now 11.3

If you'd like to play with ForeGolf custom built clubs, book your custom fitting analysis 

30 minute custom fitting analysis:  1 club (only Driver, only Irons etc) Costs €50
1 hour custom fitting analysis: Full Bag (every club)  Costs €100
Phone 045 430660 to book an appointment

Nigel Doherty

 

 

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