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Absolutely wasted that opportunity. I do remember a couple of commercials about them but that was it. Really disappointed too, I would have loved to been able to read a review or even get a chance to hit them.
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Absolutely wasted that opportunity. I do remember a couple of commercials about them but that was it. Really disappointed too, I would have loved to been able to read a review or even get a chance to hit them.
bobcat
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Anything called a driving iron...
mikedean441
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And the new callaway shoes will be
Cobra wedges
And the new callaway shoes will be
Wicked Cool Bearded Man
4thegolf+4thefriends
I fee like this has been remarketed as a utility iron for pretty much all companies
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- #55
Ddec and I were literally sitting at the Kingdom (and TaylorMade HQ) during that launch.
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- #56
Hogan is an interesting one. They built some hype before release. Remember the emails about buying before even seeing pics. I still would be surprised if they are still in business in a couple years.
I think TM has done well with the M1 marketing. The product has more buzz than the R15 did. That's without a doubt not a DOA driver. But they dropped the ball on the iron release.
They could change it and pump some life in to them. Hope they do.
Def not a reflection on performance.
I'd say the Callaway X2Hot irons. I think just about anyone who could hit those could just as easily hit the Apex irons that were released only 2 months before...except the Apex irons were sleeker, thinner, and generally better to look at.
JetSpeed line from TaylorMade had trouble getting off the ground despite a fair amount of marketing being poured into it.
Despite being really nice, IMO, every Cleveland iron line seems doomed from the outset. The CG Black CB irons are outstanding, but Cleveland just doesn't generate buzz for much outside their wedges.
JetSpeed line from TaylorMade had trouble getting off the ground despite a fair amount of marketing being poured into it.
Despite being really nice, IMO, every Cleveland iron line seems doomed from the outset. The CG Black CB irons are outstanding, but Cleveland just doesn't generate buzz for much outside their wedges.
Wicked Cool Bearded Man
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Crazy how disconnected some recent TM releases have been after they killed it for do long.
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bobcat
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Anything marketed via Infomercial on the Golf Channel...The Perfect Club and Peter Kessler come to mind, not to mention the Hammer and Jack Ham...
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The irons have been out 6 days. Is that enough time for them to fall by the wayside? They personally don't appeal to me but I don't think they can be in this discussion yet unless I'm missing something.
Even though I have long been a TM fan, it seems like all of their releases for the past 3ish years have been DOA. Having liked a number of their iron sets, Speedbladez for example, those were announced with a touch of hype and then launched...then immediately moved on to the next release.
Seems like TM is throwing ideas out there as fast as they can come up with them.
Seems like TM is throwing ideas out there as fast as they can come up with them.
Wicked Cool Bearded Man
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Do you think this is due to over saturation still?
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Seems like, except for the SLDR driver, most of the rest of that line was DOA, the SLDR C or S lines and the SLDR irons.
Wicked Cool Bearded Man
4thegolf+4thefriends
It's almost like no matter what they do they can't compete with their past.
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Exactly.
Just keep throwing out clubs hoping to recapture what they did years ago.
Wicked Cool Bearded Man
4thegolf+4thefriends
Maybe the problem is the people who used to answer those questions (or prevent them from needing to be asked) aren't at TM anymore.
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Wicked Cool Bearded Man
4thegolf+4thefriends
And maybe marketing plays a larger role than we'd like to admit.
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Outside of the Del Mars I'd say most of the previous callaway shoes as well.
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And that's possible, but it's a response I would have with any company not just TM. I feel bad kinda for picking on them a bit, but they're not really helping things here.
Wicked Cool Bearded Man
4thegolf+4thefriends
Yup. But I think they are fair to pick on- based on their prior success. It just seems to me that when the old guard left, they took all of the TM mojo with them.
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I thought they were going to turn a corner with the X-Cage line, but then Callaway went back to making awful looking shoes.
For general sales, marketing might be more important than the product itself. People will make excuses for numbers or anything else if they think it's the popular choice. Happens in absolutely everything, and golf is no different.
