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Bill, if you build them (the clubs), they (the shots) will come. hehehehe You’re conspiring with Sabatke and Dalecki, aren’t you?
I’m insulted by your insinuation. No! I *won’t* build my own clubs! I refuse!
Right. not yet, anyway
Aha! Gotcha. – still gotta learn how to swing em’ better. next goal is to make friends with my wedges.
Making friends with wedges that someone else has made can’t compare to the deeply gratifying relationship available with a wedge of your own manufacture…it’s the difference between being on speaking terms with the neighbor’s kid, and the intimacy between you and your very own child! <Confession: I use a store-bought sand wedge. We’re close, but at arm’s length. When it screws me, I have no recourse. It’s not really "mine". Bad situation. But my pitching wedge? Mine, all mine. We get along famously. Father and son kinda thing. I treat it like family, it is very loyal to its Dad. See you at the tool shop? Peter
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*I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.* I dunno….I see a shitload of discarded Callaway C-4 drivers.
I just picked up a couple of Callaway Steelhead drivers (8* and 12*) for a song out of a discount rack. I love those drivers! While my friends use those really huge headed drivers and knock them into the trees, I can hit those Steelheads long and keep ‘em in the fairway. I love that! By the way, here in Orlando, I have seen Nike drivers hit the discount bins, and it happened shortly after Tiger took his Nike driver out of his bag. Coincidence?
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message : *I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love : the : club, : but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company : in : the : discount bins.* : : I dunno….I see a shitload of discarded Callaway C-4 drivers. : : I just picked up a couple of Callaway Steelhead drivers (8* and 12*) for a : song out of a discount rack. I love those drivers! While my friends use : those really huge headed drivers and knock them into the trees, I can hit : those Steelheads long and keep ‘em in the fairway. I love that! : : By the way, here in Orlando, I have seen Nike drivers hit the discount bins, : and it happened shortly after Tiger took his Nike driver out of his bag. : Coincidence? : : There’s a bunch of Nike 350cc drivers at my local Sam’s club, right next to the TaylorMade 300 series drivers. About the same price too (~$165 US). — http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=oinesroald Please remove the under_scores if sending me mail.
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*I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.*
I dunno….I see a shitload of discarded Callaway C-4 drivers.
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*I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.* I dunno….I see a shitload of discarded Callaway C-4 drivers.
This raises an interesting question for me. I saw a guy at the practice range Saturday bombing straight shots downrange with Nike’s fairway wood – can’t remember which, but it was red – he said it was like a rescue club. Are Nike clubs good clubs? Is the quality there? I certainly like the aesthetic appeal but cannot justify the cost of their clubs. -b
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – *I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.* I dunno….I see a shitload of discarded Callaway C-4 drivers. This raises an interesting question for me. I saw a guy at the practice range Saturday bombing straight shots downrange with Nike’s fairway wood – can’t remember which, but it was red – he said it was like a rescue club. Are Nike clubs good clubs? Is the quality there? I certainly like the aesthetic appeal but cannot justify the cost of their clubs. -b
Bill, if you build them (the clubs), they (the shots) will come. hehehehe
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Bill, if you build them (the clubs), they (the shots) will come. hehehehe
You’re conspiring with Sabatke and Dalecki, aren’t you? No! I *won’t* build my own clubs! I refuse! not yet, anyway – still gotta learn how to swing em’ better. next goal is to make friends with my wedges. -b
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – *I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.* I dunno….I see a shitload of discarded Callaway C-4 drivers. This raises an interesting question for me. I saw a guy at the practice range Saturday bombing straight shots downrange with Nike’s fairway wood – can’t remember which, but it was red – he said it was like a rescue club. Are Nike clubs good clubs? Is the quality there? I certainly like the aesthetic appeal but cannot justify the cost of their clubs. -b
I play (or did until this disk / vertabrae hassle) with a Nike Forged 350CC driver. The rest of my set is Taylor Made except for a 2 ball putter. I bought the Nike after trying the new Taylor Made drivers & a whole bunch of others at the pro shop driving range. I was shocked that just could not get a good feel from any of the Taylor Made drivers — I am a straight to slight draw hitter & I kept hitting everything right or sliced with the Taylor Mades — probably my swing & not the clubs. I never even thought of buying a Nike (not really a Tiger fan or even a Nike fan) but when the pro said try this thing I hit it great. I can’t say I got any distance boost but my misses were so much better than my Titanium Burner Bubble that I had to have it & it has not disappointed me. I will have to look at the irons next year after my surgeon is done putting me back together. P.S. I like the 2 ball but the main reason I bought such an expensive putter was to break my habit of throwing my putter!! (It worked — I had a $15.00 putter but I don’t don’t throw $170.00)…. Steve F – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –
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August 6, 2003 – Based on monthly market information provided by Golf Datatech LLC, a leading Golf Market Research Company, sales of Nike Golf Metal Woods and Irons more than doubled in June of this year compared to June of 2002. Category Director for Nike Golf’s club division, Mike Kelly, credits the popularity and Tour validation of the company’s 400cc and 450cc Forged Titanium Drivers and Forged Pro Combo Irons for the major sales increases. The announcement comes on the eve of Nike Golf’s grand opening of a 28,000 square foot research & design facility in Ft. Worth, Texas – slated for Friday. Nike Golf’s Metal Woods sales jumped 176 percent, reaching a 4.6 unit market share. This increase was accomplished while the sales of woods in the on and off course market was up just 9.9 percent for June 2003 over the same period in 2002. Nike Golf’s worldwide Tour Staff has had tremendous success over the past 12 months with the company’s bigger, faster, longer drivers including Nick Faldo, Trevor Immelman, Grace Park, Rory Sabbatini, Stephen Ames, Michael Campbell, Spike McRoy, Jason Gore, and Kyle Thompson. Nike Golf’s Irons sales increased 378 percent, while the industry as a whole was up only 3.7 percent in June 2003 compared to the same period in 2002. Nike Golf now has more than a dozen Tour professionals playing the progressive-set Forged Pro Combo Irons. Kelly was pleased with the first June figures for Nike Golf’s Blue Chip Putter Series that captured 2.9 percent market share in June 2003. Nike Golf first introduced the series including the popular Oz putter in April 2003. *I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.*
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – August 6, 2003 – Based on monthly market information provided by Golf Datatech LLC, a leading Golf Market Research Company, sales of Nike Golf Metal Woods and Irons more than doubled in June of this year compared to June of 2002. Category Director for Nike Golf’s club division, Mike Kelly, credits the popularity and Tour validation of the company’s 400cc and 450cc Forged Titanium Drivers and Forged Pro Combo Irons for the major sales increases. The announcement comes on the eve of Nike Golf’s grand opening of a 28,000 square foot research & design facility in Ft. Worth, Texas – slated for Friday. Nike Golf’s Metal Woods sales jumped 176 percent, reaching a 4.6 unit market share. This increase was accomplished while the sales of woods in the on and off course market was up just 9.9 percent for June 2003 over the same period in 2002. Nike Golf’s worldwide Tour Staff has had tremendous success over the past 12 months with the company’s bigger, faster, longer drivers including Nick Faldo, Trevor Immelman, Grace Park, Rory Sabbatini, Stephen Ames, Michael Campbell, Spike McRoy, Jason Gore, and Kyle Thompson. Nike Golf’s Irons sales increased 378 percent, while the industry as a whole was up only 3.7 percent in June 2003 compared to the same period in 2002. Nike Golf now has more than a dozen Tour professionals playing the progressive-set Forged Pro Combo Irons. Kelly was pleased with the first June figures for Nike Golf’s Blue Chip Putter Series that captured 2.9 percent market share in June 2003. Nike Golf first introduced the series including the popular Oz putter in April 2003. *I just purchased a new Nike driver for 100.00 USD on eBay. I love the club, but I have never seen the mass of that many drivers from a big company in the discount bins.*
This report compares Nike’s June 2003 sales vs. Nike’s June 2002 sales. Thats a poor comparison because the Nike equipment…Pro Combos and Metal woods were very new in June 2002. In addition, they can now compare the Nike woods category ( Drivers and fairway woods) to the June 2002 category which only comprised of Drivers. Therefore all fairway woods equate to incremental sales and affect the category’s increased sales. Lastly, this is the first year that Nike has had a full year to sign PGA Tour pros to their brand. Early last year virtually all PGA tour pros were already under endorsement contracts that were signed or extended in fall of 2001 prior to the Jan 2002 PGA Equip show. A better comparison will be to compare June 2003 to next June 2004.