Winners: UTC Golf Event
I had a lot of fun in this year’s UTC Golf Tournament at Talon’s Cove. I enjoyed getting to know three new guys that I had not met before the event. It was a team effort all the way around. Lee who put up with me as a cart partner and took off pressure when [...]
My Son’s on the AF High Golf Team
Dallen qualified for the American Fork High School Golf Team as a Freshman…. Excited for all the experience he’ll get in tournament settings. Glad he will find others to play with that he can learn from and compete against.
Message From the 2007 Open Championship Web Site
As they say, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
Couple of my Cell Phone Snapshots on Schmap
Snapped a couple of shots of the Carlton Oaks golf course in San Diego area…. Now they are on Scmap, some shopping / map application. Images were used with my permission.
TaylorMade Golf’s CTO: The Inside of Club Design
Today technology and science are pushing distance and performance for both tour players and weekend warriors. Benoit Vincent, TaylorMade Golf’s Chief Technology Officer, talks with Brad Baldwin about how technology and innovation are driving golf club design. Computer Aided Design (CAD) and sophisticated analysis and monitoring tools allow designers to create, “play” and even hear a club in a digital world long before it’s crafted into titanium or steel. Borrowing manufacturing processes from the aerospace industry, TaylorMade is stretching the limits of what a driver should look like and how it will perform.
TaylorMade Golf’s Product & Brand Man, Sean Toulon
Working with tour players like Sergio Garcia, Retief Goosen, Darren Clark, John Daly, Paula Creamer, and on and on. Working with an engineering team that pushes the limits of aerospace materials and design strategies to create 460cc marvels of art and function. As Sean said, “golfers are a pretty passionate group.”I learned that Sean was the guy behind the product, business, and marketing plans to create and launch the R7 driver. As he said in the podcast, he arrived at a European tour event on a Monday night with drivers in hand for testing.
Brad at TaylorMade
I interviewed Sean Toulon, EVP of Product and Brand Creation, and Benoit Vincent, Chief Technical Officer for a story I’m doing over at Rocky Mountain Voices…. He is one of the key guys (if not the key guy) responsible for creating the single driver head and customizing for each player with the Moveable Weight Technology (MWT)…. His background in aerospace design is coming to use with the new materials and manufacturing processes to create golf clubs and balls on computers first and then prototype second.
The Medialist: Final Scoring
Looks like I finished the event with the following:
Gross Scores: tied for 20th place (39 people entered)
Net Scores: 16th place (39 people entered)
WeKoPa, an 89 and high score for the year!
My 8th shot was a tiny 6 incher, and I was off to the 10th hole with fire in belly and as swirling of swear words in my head.
My favorite part of the event: reserved parking
But nothing can compare to a guy in a tie meeting you in the parking lot, asking your name, and then directing you the the “second space to your right” where I found my “reserved” parking spot…. Finished the back at +6 by chipping and putting like a fool and hitting one long birdie putt.
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