I had a nice chat with the local Cleveland rep a few days ago. Cool guy. Some reps that work for really big golf companies that start with the letter “T” don’t even seem to want to give you the time of day. This guy not only have me the time of day, he and I swapped golf war stories for a good half an hour.
The two of us came up with a fun new game to try on the course. The “18 hole, press every hole” bet. If your normal bet is $2, then you start a new $2 bet on each hole.
I told the rep about my web sites and what I do and he asked if Cleveland ever sent me gear to review. I gave him some grief on that. I let him know that plenty of the other manufacturers do, but all Cleveland provides me with is press releases.
I asked him if Cleveland had any cool new stuff coming out this year. He said they were standing pat with the success of their current lineup. They’re moving the price down on their Launcher 460 comp so that it would be in the range of the very successful G2 and G5 by Ping.
I asked about Vijay’s driver. This is the one he just switched to and is supposedly knocking it even farther. Is that even possible? The rep told me there was nothing really going on with that club for now, but perhaps there might be some news in the summer.
Cleveland update complete.
I’ve gotten to know the local Bridgestone rep over the last half a year or so. He’s not your prototypical golf rep. He’s a young dude, shaved head and one of those Vijay under the lip hair things. He looks like he could be the vocalist for Disturbed.
He got me some Precept Laddie Extreme balls last summer and I did a small post on them. The best $20/dozen balls I’ve played for sure. The word is now that they’re $15. Smokin’.
I mentioned the Extreme’s to him and he told me they were coming out with two more balls, the e5 and e6. One is a “distance” ball and and the other a “distance & spin” ball. I asked him how you could have both distance and spin since most opinions are that you can’t have both. He told me that the ball was as long as any he’d hit, and it had major spin around the greens.
The kicker, is these going to be priced in the CHEAP category. Even poor hackers can afford good golf balls these days.
Kiwi’s blog “Kiwi Hacker” is up and running! Kiwi is a good guy and active on many of the golf forums. He’s got a nice, original way of presenting his takes from down under. Go check it out.
“The Daly Planet” on The Golf Channel… This is the highly anticipated John Daly reality show.
TGC missed the boat (or should I say double wide). Where are the real behind the scenes clips? You know, the ones where strippers are flashing their breasts, drunk people are pounding beers, mini JD’s are at the barber getting their mullets trimmed, or perhaps JD is rolling out of bed after a “long” night.
I’d have to grade this program barely above the Natalie Gulbis show. That would be an F. The NG show was an F-. I may watch the 2nd episode to see if it’s any better, but I may opt to go get a prostate exam.
I just found out today that my former best friend’s Masters tickets were pulled. That would be the friend that was TAKING ME for 4 days.
Apparently his tickets were originally his deceased father’s. He was going to the tournament posing as his father or something like that. Someone apparently tattled on him and he lost the “privilege” to be a “patron.”
Talk about letting the air out of the balloon. I’m deflated for sure. But I’m still hoping to get my letter back from Augusta National informing me that I made the lottery for practice round tickets….
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