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Yururi Wedge Builds Part 3 – Completed Clubs

  • Categories: Club Making, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, Shafts
  • Posted on: August 11th, 2010 by: gocchin

We put together the Yururi Tour and Seida Rupas wedges yesterday so it’s time to report back on the blog. When building clubs you can really learn about all the different components that make a club feel and perform the way it does. Especially once the club is completed it’s like putting the pieces of [...]

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Yururi Tour or Seida Rupas Wedge Builds – Part 1

  • Categories: Club Making, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment
  • Posted on: August 6th, 2010 by: gocchin

Keigekiku Yururi was kind enough to send me some wedges for a start to finish build and some testing. They sent me two of their new 2010 models, the Yururi Tour Wedge and the Seida RuPaS. Both Premium Japan forged wedges are popular choices for any player looking for feel and spin in a great [...]

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New 2010 Callaway Legacy Forged Iron – Pics of the Day

  • Categories: Gear Sneak Peaks, Image of the Day, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment
  • Posted on: July 7th, 2010 by: gocchin

(Callaway Legacy Forged Iron and Odyssey Tri Hot iX #3 – Pic of the day – thanks to GDO)

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New Taylormade Limited Edition Tour Caps and Visors

  • Categories: GTI Exclusive, Gear Sneak Peaks, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, New Equipment
  • Posted on: June 24th, 2010 by: gocchin

Taylormade Japan has just released a few new caps and visors that are Tour Professional models. These are the same caps worn by Taylormade Pros on the Japanese tour.  They are all limited editions and numbers are very limited. Like most Taylormade items in low supply they will sell out fast.  So this is a [...]

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Introducing Grind Studio and Masahiro Tomaru

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  • Posted on: May 11th, 2010 by: gocchin

In this day and age of mass produced golf clubs, there are very few TRUE masters that still craft a club by hand. I have had the pleasure of watching Masayuki Sasaya of Gold’s Factory hand make all his wedges, putters and irons and in the process learning what it takes to make a golf [...]

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Top Shafts in Japan – Popularity and Sales Trends

  • Categories: Club Making, GTI Exclusive, Golf News, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus
  • Posted on: April 22nd, 2010 by: gocchin

It’s time to countdown the top selling and most popular shafts currently in the Japanese market. As always these rankings are based on a number of criteria including TSG sales as well as sales throughout  Japan, user reviews and feedback, media hype, and overall buzz and demand. Here are the shafts that have been grabbing [...]

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PRGR GN502 Tour 440 Driver Review

  • Categories: Featured, Golf News, Golf Tech Talk, Golf Videos, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, New Equipment, Product Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Posts
  • Posted on: March 28th, 2010 by: gocchin

Pro Gear or PRGR as most of us know Yokohama Rubber’s golf wing as, was kind enough to send me a few demos including the new Tour Driver and Forged irons as well as the RED 505 driver and irons. Having both the new RED 505 and 440 Tour side by side really showed what [...]

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Titleist VG3 Driver Release at Japan Golf Show!

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  • Posted on: February 21st, 2010 by: gocchin

With the official showing to the public of the new Titleist VG3 driver at the Golf Fair this weekend here in Japan, I thought I would go into a bit more detail on what will most likely turn out to be one of the most in demand drivers of 2010.
Titleist has long been known as [...]

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Best Selling Golf Shafts of 2009

  • Categories: Featured, GTI Exclusive, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Recommended, Recommended Posts
  • Posted on: January 9th, 2010 by: gocchin

Lots of data are now coming in for the 2009 season when it comes to sales and trends in Japan’s golf market. Today I’m going to talk about shaft trends from 2009. Overall in general, we saw the trend move away from high launch max carry type of shafts to shafts that produce a lower [...]

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Optimal Distance = The Right Club PLUS Perfect Impact

  • Categories: Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf
  • Posted on: October 14th, 2009 by: gocchin

Give me your longest driver…

I get tons of emails every day asking for recommendations on clubs from the Japanese market. As I mentioned in previous posts, one of the questions I frequently get is, “What’s the longest driver you guys have?” And as I have always answered, there is no such thing as the [...]

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PRGR Pro Model Golf Glove

  • Categories: Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment
  • Posted on: September 10th, 2009 by: gocchin

The right golf glove is a very important part of your swing. Many people take gloves for granted and buy the cheapest gloves they can find or do not replace their gloves when needed. It doesn’t matter how fast you swing, or how great your clubs are if your equipment twists and turns or slips [...]

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Japanese Tour Player Scotty Cameron Putters

  • Categories: Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus
  • Posted on: August 27th, 2009 by: gocchin

The annual Scotty Cameron Museum and Gallery meeting and tournament is upon us here in Japan.  Every year Scotty Cameron comes to Japan in the fall to Hamamatsu Seaside Golf Club in Shizuoka for a meeting and day of golf with his Japanese Scotty enthusiasts.  I was checking out Golf Style which was promoting the [...]

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Asics Shoes are Coming – Challenger One Tourstage

  • Categories: Featured, Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, Recommended
  • Posted on: August 26th, 2009 by: gocchin

With the imminent release of Asics’ flag ship golf shoe, the Gelace Top, dominant Japanese golf shoe makers like Tourstage and Mizuno are preparing to have a bite taken out of their market share.  Already having to contend with overseas makers like Footjoy, ecco, Adidas and others. Asics with years of shoe experience enters the [...]

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PRGR EGG Spoon Fairway Wood Review

  • Categories: Featured, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Japanese Golf, Product Reviews, Recommended
  • Posted on: August 22nd, 2009 by: gocchin

Living in Japan, I follow the Japanese tour even closer than I do the PGA tour. All the websites here and magazines cover pro players and the gear they use extensively. One thing I noticed at the beginning of the season was the number of pro players on the JPGA carrying the PRGR Egg Spoon [...]

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Chie Arimura – Tourstage Pro Swing Video

  • Categories: Golf Videos, Japanese Golf, LPGA Tour
  • Posted on: August 21st, 2009 by: gocchin

I’ve posted previously about Tourstage Pro Chie Arimura on the blog here. One post about what’s in her bag and another about her detailed course note taking. Chie, 21 years of age and now in her third year on the Japan Ladies tour is still coming into her own as a player with 2009 being [...]

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ONOFF Pro Division Clubs Now Available at TSG

  • Categories: GTI Exclusive, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment, Recommended
  • Posted on: July 3rd, 2009 by: gocchin

Tourspecgolf – Golf to Impress is proud to announce the availabilty of tour drivers from ONOFF Golf’s Pro Division. These drivers are built to spec by ONOFF’s top tour craftsmen from the Pro Division tour support team.  We received a brand new driver today from them, an ONOFF Red with 1* open face, Roddio’s new [...]

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Who’s this Azuma Yano guy at the US Open? A look at one of Japan’s Top JPGA Pros

  • Categories: Golf News, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, Recommended, The Majors, What's in the bag?
  • Posted on: June 20th, 2009 by: gocchin

With all the focus on Tiger and the rain and mudballs at this year’s US Open, most people probably haven’t noticed or had the time to ask who is that guy from Japan tied for 4th after the completion of two rounds? Shigeki Maruyama? Shingo Katayama? No it’s PRGR Pro Azuma Yano.
While well known in [...]

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GTI WITB FOCUS: Shingo Katayama JGTO Pro

  • Categories: Featured, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, Recommended, What's in the bag?
  • Posted on: May 24th, 2009 by: gocchin

Today I’m going to take a closer look at what’s in the bag of ONOFF Pro Shingo Katayama. Katayama has long been one of the top Japanese players on tour here in Japan. Last year Katayama won his 25th tournament automatically qualifying him for a lifetime exemption on the Japanese tour.  He’s now up to [...]

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Chie Arimura’s Bag: A new trend signalling the end of the Tourstage ViQ line??

  • Categories: Featured, Golf News, Japanese Golf, Rumors, What's in the bag?
  • Posted on: April 24th, 2009 by: gocchin

A few months ago, a fellow TSG forum member from Hawaii was talking to me about what’s in the bag for serveral JLPGA pros and he noted that many of the Tourstage pros were no longer playing the ViQ line, the most dominant line on the Japanese ladies tour which also happens to be one [...]

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Shingo Katayama moves from Nike to ONOFF

  • Categories: Featured, Golf News, Japanese Golf, Recommended, Recommended Posts, What's in the bag?
  • Posted on: April 12th, 2009 by: gocchin

Widely regarded as one of Japans great all time golfers along with the likes of Jumbo Ozaki and Tommy Nakajima, Shingo Katayama has made the move from being a long time Nike pro to the much smaller ONOFF brand. Widely regarded as the face of Japanese Nike, it is a surprising move but a good [...]

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