The Seniors Open at Turnberry

John Letters Tour Ambassador Andy Gorman, fresh from working on the practice putting green at the Open Championship at Royal Lytham, spent two practice days at Turnberry host for this year’s British Senior’s Open. Conversations were had with many of golf’s legends including Gary Player, a former Letters Staff Player, discussing the Open Championship & the putting stroke. Andy even managed to glean Gary’s valuable insight into the putting stroke of the great Bobby Locke. Andy took full advantage to discuss the Golden Goose putters & the putting stroke with former Ryder Cup player & multiple European Tour winner Gordon Brand Jnr, as well as discussing the virtues of the extended two thumb grip used by Eamonn Darcy.

John Letters prescence on the putting green

Players were complimentary of the line of John Letters Tour Black & the new MM Grind wedges. After discussions & some recommendations from Andy the Tour Support staff custom made wedges for several players including: Constantino Rocca, 60* Tour Black, Jeff Sluman 56* Tour Black, Mitch Adcock 52* & 56* MM adjusted to 53 & 57*, Graham Bannister Tour Black 52 adjusted to 49*, 52 adjusted to 53 & 56 & 60*both adjusted to 58.5* offering differing bounce angles.

The Open at Lytham

Swapping the European Tour for the Royal & Ancients 141st staging of the British Open, John Letters Ambassador Andy Gorman spent 3 practice days inside the putting green ropes at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s this week showcasing the latest MasterModel & Golden Goose putters & MasterModel & Tour Black wedges to the world’s leading players. Former Masters Champion Angel Cabrera expressed his approval of the wedge designs trialling the MasterModel 60 degree wedge whilst Adilison Da Silva put a Golden Goose putter in his bag after experiencing the role of the ball from the GG3 putter.



Open 2012 - Thursday Update

After torrential showers last night the range and most of the tented village is flooded, but again low winds and soft conditions will make this another low scoring day setting a subpar cut.

This morning we had Kim Braily the designer and founder of KBS shafts on the van. He had seen the tour grind wedge and was a massive fan of the aggressive true tour grind shape. He showed us some of his new prototype white steel shafts that we will get into the wedges as soon as we can.

James Graham - Product Development Executive

Open 2012 that was close

A perfect day for golf calm winds, warm weather, soft fairways and greens conditions that play straight into the hands of the players. However there was some definate nerves on the range as the players prepared for the day ahead. The nerves became clear as not one but two balls were hooked on to the roof of our tour vehicle which is postitioned 40 yards left of the 150 yard marker. No such nerves for Tiger he was on the range practicing a high risk fade shot where he aimed over the line of tour vehicles and the range boundary fading the ball back to the 250 yard marker, any slight error of judgement would have meant a damaged tour vehicle or an injured spectator. 

John letters are also aiding the development of Junior golf at the Open by teaching the next generation the Seve way, on the beach. Seve learned how to strike the ball perfectly and get the most out of a golf club, as a youngster he only had a 3 iron however practicing everyday he was soon able to hit flop shots with it.

James Graham
Product Development Manager

Lytham 2012 final practice day

The weather is bearing its teeth in lytham, heavy rain harsh winds make this tough course a fabtastic challenge for the worlds elite. Our new tour van is positioned on the left hand side of the tight range and some of the nervier golfers have pulled the ball almost through our door, one of the culprits was John Daly as he practiced late last night however his efforts could have been intentional. We are also useing this week also as a focus group for 2013 product, emalgamating the feedback of the world press. So far feedback is very positive. James graham Product development manager