Equipment Updates from the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles

August 27th, 2010

It was a very busy week here on the Titleist Tour Support Vehicle (TTSV) at the Johhnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. Tour Technician Scott Morrison, the newest addition to our Leadership team, was enjoying his first week on the TTSV. He did a great job in the back this week managing to get all builds done on time.

• Titleist Brand Ambassador Gaganjeet Bhullar was using a 909D2 8.5 with an aldila VS 80 X shaft and he does hit it great. Gaganjeet hasn’t tried the 910 yet so we did a driver fitting in the afternoon.

We started of with him trying the Oban 80 gr shaft x stiff and the first drive he hit ended up 318 yards down the practice range, 14 yards longer than his gamer. But G didn’t like that it felt whippier than his VS 80, so we made up a shaft to his old specs and had a go. Straight away he was commentating on how good the driver looked when he addressed the ball and how good the shaft felt. He hits the ball really high so we tried a 7.5 head instead of an 8.5 to bring the flight down a little bit and to get that penetrating flight we all look for. It didn’t take more than 7-8 shots before he knew this was going to be the driver for him. With the new 910 head we managed to increase his ball speed by 3-5 mph, lowered his flight, increased his carry and also increased his roll out. In total, we managed to give him an average of 14 yards. Needless to say, Gaganjeet walked away with a big smile on his face

• Titleist Brand Ambassador Kenneth Ferrie tried out some Titleist 710 CB irons this week. He also went back to his old shaft which is a Rifle 7.0. Tour Technician Phil Dimmock compared the CB’ to his current gamers, 710 AP2s, on the TrackMan to check which irons performed the best. The CBs with the Rifles didn’t have the desired effect on his trajectory so they are going keep working on different shaft options.

• Recent Irish Open winner and Titleist Brand Ambassador Ross Fisher made a tweak to his 910 prototype driver. Same shaft as before (a PX 7A3) but this time we went for 8.5 instead of a 7.5. Ross felt he needed a higher trajectory and longer carry this week.

• Titleist Brand Ambassador Jose-Filipe Lima came by asking if it was possible to try a lower-lofted head in his new 910 prototype driver. Off course it was, so we took his 910D2 9.5 head, checked the weight on it, grabbed an 8.5 instead, made sure it had the same headweight as his gamer, swapped the head on his Oban revenge shaft and it was ready to hit. In all, it took 4 minutes. We gave Jose a tool for the head so he can change it back if he ever needs some more loft again.

• Titleist Brand Ambassador Sören Hansen is keen on trying out some AP2s, and a set will be made up to his specs: S400 shafts, 1.5′ flat and strong lofted. And then we will ship to his home address in Monaco and follow up with him after he has had a go with them in between events. Soren also put in some work with the 910 prototype driver, testing out the club with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7X shaft.

• Titleist Brand Ambassador Gregory Bourdy’s bag went lost in transit this week. But fortunately we carry extra sets on the TTSV so he could still get some practice done. New wedges, driver and putter was made up for him just in case he doesn’t get his bag back until Thursday.

Next week we go to Switzerland, a week of stunning views and usually a great field.

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