Hello golfers,

In this week’s email, we ask you to consider what's most important to you in a golf shoe, we take a look at how you voted in January's poll, and we look ahead to what's coming in February.

Enjoy the read.

In order to maintain our reputation within the industry for quality custom fitting it is vital that we attend presentations from companies to keep up to date with the equipment we are fitting along with keeping up to date with fitting data and procedures. Over the past 2/3 weeks we have been getting ready for these new products with the last trip being last Thursday when TJ and Luke were away at the PING Headquarters.

As well attending Manufacturers seminars I also attended a Foremost business seminar yesterday at Harrogate which included me giving a presentation to over 50 professionals.

Click here to arrange a fitting to experience these very exciting new products.

Lots of boxes this week and lots of options of shafts to find your fitting specifications

We have also been busy this week preparing the ProShop for the season ahead with some exciting changes in store with great assistance from member/joiner Pete Hilton as well as member / electrician Dave Carrington.

Part of these preparations is moving stock on and we have some amazing further reductions on our January Sale so be quick if you wish to grab an incredible bargain.

In addition to the numerous sale offerings we are also selling our electric trolley rental fleet. These trollies are an absolute bargain and are strictly first come first served. They are all only 9 months old and are in excellent order along with also having been serviced this week ready for this sale. We have 2 x PowaKaddy Freeway 3 trollies and 2 x Motocaddy S1 trollies.

All are the 36 hole lithium battery option which sell for £499. Each trolley will come with 12 month warranty and the batteries will have 2 years warranty – all priced at £299. Click here and get in touch to reserve one.

Donate if you can

Please keep the donations of any unwanted balls coming as it is most appreciated. Whilst we will be introducing some new balls in the spring these donations are essential to helping maintain the fantastic value the range offers.

Rake the Bunkers

Those of you who have played recently will have noticed a tremendous amount of work being carried out by our green staff. Some of this work has included using the newly purchased whacker plate which will help improve the quality and consistency of our bunker presentation and playability.

This work however is pretty much to no avail when bunkers are not raked by those who play from them. This picture shows that the first golfer to play from this bunker on the 17th after it had work done made no effort to repair their markings.

Captain/Pro Matches

After four weeks of bad weather and course closures David and I managed to play our latest match on Wednesday against Dan Hodge and Joe Foggin. We had a fantastic game with nothing more than one hole in all the way until a birdie at the 17th secured victory for David and I.

Thank you once again guys for your great company and a most enjoyable game.
If you would like to challenge David and I we have two dates still available:
Friday 16th Feb 9am and Weds 14th March 10.30. There is no charge for these matches, all we ask is that you make a donation to the Captains chosen charity.

You will receive 3 TaylorMade TPX balls (as used by five of the world’s Top 10 players) and if you win the match you will receive another 3 balls after the game.

It's a new era

Our January poll captured the imagination of many of you as we asked you to consider whether Tiger Woods would make a triumphant return to the fairways in 2018. Here are the final results:

• 58% think Tiger will fail to win a tournament this year
• 33% believe the American will win a PGA Tour event
• 9% believe he’ll get one closer to Jack Nicklaus’ major victories record

As we head into February, keep an eye out for our new poll later this week. With lots of the major brands releasing new products over the coming weeks, we want to know which one you’d like to try the most. Of course, we will be receiving lots of exciting bits next month so be sure to pop your head into the shop next time you're at the club.