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Ok a post in another thread about Bob Vokey (who I may have redubed Wedge Yoda out of respect and adoration) got me thinking. Is there someone, they could be alive or dead, in the golf world you would love to get a chance to sit down and have a chat with. A real talk whatever you want to pick their brain.

Who would you pick and what would you want
To talk about?
 
GolfSquatch said:
Ok a post in another thread about Bob Vokey (who I may have redubed Wedge Yoda out of respect and adoration) got me thinking. Is
There someone could be alive or dead on the golf world you would love to get a chance to sit down and have a chat with. A real talk whatever you want to pick their brain.

Who would you pick and what would you want
To talk about?
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Dead or alive? Ely Callaway.
 
It’s my question I am going to start with alive and I think that for me would be the golden bear himself Jack Nicklaus I love clubs and engineering but I think to talk about the swing and all his stories in terms of the golden age of completions would be amazing
 
This is going to seem like sucking up, though it's not and i'm sure he know it's not. But guys like @JB are really interesting to me because of all the contacts in the industry, all of the products he's seen launched and proposed. the ones that failed , succeeded etc. All of the behind the scenes stuff from various vendors

I'd sign an NDA to hear JB tell stories for like an hour.
 
Dead I am going with the father of the modern putter Karsten Solheim because I love putters
 
MtlJeff said:
This is going to seem like sucking up, though it's not and i'm sure he know it's not. But guys like @JB are really interesting to me because of all the contacts in the industry, all of the products he's seen launched and proposed. the ones that failed , succeeded etc. All of the behind the scenes stuff from various vendors

I'd sign an NDA to hear JB tell stories for like an hour.
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I can see that I love when we get a chance
To pick @JB s brain when he throws up those AMA opportunities always great tidbits being thrown out left and right and honestly all the staff posts are great and look at all the greatest this week that they have going
 
GolfSquatch said:
I can see that I love when we get a chance
To pick @JB s brain when he throws up those AMA opportunities always great tidbits being thrown out left and right and honestly all the staff posts are great and look at all the greatest this week that they have going
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Again, i am sure many will see that as sucking up.....but i don't know......I have met a few big club designers in the industry and it was amazing. It really was.

But guys who have been in the forum space for 15-20 years, all the companies they've seen, the marketing ideas that have been pitched, the highs and lows of that.

To me that is just more interesting
 
Well, since he owned a club company and made good stuff, I’ll say Ben Hogan.
 
Mr. Hogan and Mr. Palmer.
 
cjroman said:
Mr. Hogan and Mr. Palmer.
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If we are picking two together which I say go for it by the way I want Vokey and Cleveland in the same room to argue wedges
 
Bobby Jones

Industry- Ely Callaway/ Bob Vokey
 
Karsten Solheim if we are looking for a historical choice. He designed so many revolutionary clubs.
 
Vokey
 
Dead - Bobby Jones

Alive - @DR has my vote; would love to pick his brain on 3DP and golf club design.
 
Off the record and they will answer truthfully? Tiger, and I wasn’t even a big Tiger fan in his prime.
 
Katsuhiro Miura or really any club designer. Im constantly thinking about ways to improve or change clubs. I prob have half a dozen drawings of putter ideas and irons that allow quick changes and variables to change flight.
 
Geez, tough question. Open discussion, probably Tiger. Second choice probably Arnie, I’d bet he could tell some crazy stories.
 
Dead - Ben Hogan.

Alive - The perfect instructor for me, whoever that is.
 
Long Gone; Bobby Jones on how the idea came about for Augusta National, the architectural ideas for the course
Alive: Jack, his motivation at a early age, he mental toughness when contending and how he approached competition on different courses .
 
Hmm all time - I think I’d go Ben Hogan
 
GolfSquatch said:
If we are picking two together which I say go for it by the way I want Vokey and Cleveland in the same room to argue wedges
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That'd be a pretty awesome conversation, though I wonder if they'd "argue" all that much.

I'll take a similar tangent for putters and ask for a discussion panel with Scotty Cameron, Sean Toulon, and Guerin Rife. The intersection of form and function is endlessly interesting.
 
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