Martsy
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I came home from the golf course yesterday to two exciting packages from Cobra/Puma Golf. The first package was a beautiful pair of red, white, & blue Titan Tours. I haven't had a chance to wear them outside yet but the feel is just incredible and greatly looking forward to trying them out on the course. I'll give my feedback on these over time in the existing thread over here http://www.thehackersparadise.com/f...olf-TitanTour-amp-TitanLite-Golf-Shoe-Preview
I could have stopped there and my month would have been made, but alas, there was a long narrow box also included....what could it be? :act-up:
First, a little background. A day or two after I found out I was the lucky winner of the THP US Open contest (http://www.thehackersparadise.com/f...amp-Official-Thread-Amazing-Cobra-PUMA-Prizes), I received a call from Mike Yagley, Director of Innovation, Research and Testing at Cobra PUMA Golf. It's weird, I talk to directors and executives every day, but his call brought butterflies to my stomach. I guess when you're a golf geek like the rest of us are, it's kind of like a kid receiving a call from Santa. Especially since at one point last year my entire bag sans putter was entirely Cobra.
Thankfully Mike is about as nice a person over the phone as you could hope for, and we quickly got in some initial golf banter and he congratulated me on my contest win. Slight early awkward point when he asked me who I chose, and I felt guilty for saying Oosthuizen and Reed, two staffers of other OEM's, but to be honest I figured I'd have to go out on a little limb to have a shot at this and assumed everyone would be taking Ricky anyway.
After that we discussed my golf game, he asked if I knew any of my launch or spin numbers, and thankfully i still had screenshots from a trip to Golfsmith last year with my BioCell+, so we had that as a baseline to work with. Being a high handicap though, i really do get intimidated discussing things like swing weight, CG and contact time, but he understood where I was coming from and really gave me a better idea of what kind of driver he was building for me and how it would help my game. He also offered me to get in touch with him if it didn't work out and they'd tweak it if needed. We discussed shafts and I went with one that was similar to what I have used previously in the Motore Speeder 6.1 shaft, as well as length, grip size, etc. Originally the plan was a blue head, white shaft, and red grip.
A few days later I received another call from Mike, as well as Andy Heroy, a test technician with Cobra and the gentleman who actually built my club. Apparently the shaft I selected was blue, not white like we had thought...but that was easily remedied by switching the head to white...which I was actually all for as I previously have owned a blue Amp Cell, blue Bio Cell, and blue Bio Cell+...so maybe looking down at a different color isn't such a bad idea. We spoke for a few minutes and then they ended the call with "you're club will be on it's way in a few days"...more goosebumps.
Ok, by now I'm sure you've had enough of my blabbering...how about some pictures? First though, the note included from Andy that I will keep forever. The explanation of the creation of my 1 of 1 'Murica driver! I especially love the end remarks...and yes, I do plan on hitting the crap out of it!
And now the club itself:
It bears repeating, but I can't thank THP or Cobra/Puma enough for having this awesome contest and providing a one of a kind prize like this. Special shout out to Mike Yagley and Andy Heroy for taking time out of their day to call me, and build this unique club. I haven't hit the driver yet but plan on trying to today if the rain holds up, and I'll use this thread as my method of giving feedback on it, and hope to have a chance in the near future to try it out on THP's Flightscope, and let some other THP'er give it a swing as well. I feel like while I've been given custody, this is truly something that belongs to all of THP and hope many people can give it a whirl at some point during future outings or events. Thanks for reading, and if there's something I missed in my relaying this story or a question you have, please feel free to ask.
~ Geoff
I could have stopped there and my month would have been made, but alas, there was a long narrow box also included....what could it be? :act-up:
First, a little background. A day or two after I found out I was the lucky winner of the THP US Open contest (http://www.thehackersparadise.com/f...amp-Official-Thread-Amazing-Cobra-PUMA-Prizes), I received a call from Mike Yagley, Director of Innovation, Research and Testing at Cobra PUMA Golf. It's weird, I talk to directors and executives every day, but his call brought butterflies to my stomach. I guess when you're a golf geek like the rest of us are, it's kind of like a kid receiving a call from Santa. Especially since at one point last year my entire bag sans putter was entirely Cobra.
Thankfully Mike is about as nice a person over the phone as you could hope for, and we quickly got in some initial golf banter and he congratulated me on my contest win. Slight early awkward point when he asked me who I chose, and I felt guilty for saying Oosthuizen and Reed, two staffers of other OEM's, but to be honest I figured I'd have to go out on a little limb to have a shot at this and assumed everyone would be taking Ricky anyway.
After that we discussed my golf game, he asked if I knew any of my launch or spin numbers, and thankfully i still had screenshots from a trip to Golfsmith last year with my BioCell+, so we had that as a baseline to work with. Being a high handicap though, i really do get intimidated discussing things like swing weight, CG and contact time, but he understood where I was coming from and really gave me a better idea of what kind of driver he was building for me and how it would help my game. He also offered me to get in touch with him if it didn't work out and they'd tweak it if needed. We discussed shafts and I went with one that was similar to what I have used previously in the Motore Speeder 6.1 shaft, as well as length, grip size, etc. Originally the plan was a blue head, white shaft, and red grip.
A few days later I received another call from Mike, as well as Andy Heroy, a test technician with Cobra and the gentleman who actually built my club. Apparently the shaft I selected was blue, not white like we had thought...but that was easily remedied by switching the head to white...which I was actually all for as I previously have owned a blue Amp Cell, blue Bio Cell, and blue Bio Cell+...so maybe looking down at a different color isn't such a bad idea. We spoke for a few minutes and then they ended the call with "you're club will be on it's way in a few days"...more goosebumps.
Ok, by now I'm sure you've had enough of my blabbering...how about some pictures? First though, the note included from Andy that I will keep forever. The explanation of the creation of my 1 of 1 'Murica driver! I especially love the end remarks...and yes, I do plan on hitting the crap out of it!
And now the club itself:
It bears repeating, but I can't thank THP or Cobra/Puma enough for having this awesome contest and providing a one of a kind prize like this. Special shout out to Mike Yagley and Andy Heroy for taking time out of their day to call me, and build this unique club. I haven't hit the driver yet but plan on trying to today if the rain holds up, and I'll use this thread as my method of giving feedback on it, and hope to have a chance in the near future to try it out on THP's Flightscope, and let some other THP'er give it a swing as well. I feel like while I've been given custody, this is truly something that belongs to all of THP and hope many people can give it a whirl at some point during future outings or events. Thanks for reading, and if there's something I missed in my relaying this story or a question you have, please feel free to ask.
~ Geoff
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