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| edmp |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 15:13:19
How many lefties are out there that would buy the training club if a left hand model was available - put me down as number one.Also would you pay a reasonable premium if necessary ?
Chuck
p.s. My right handed wife got hers and loves it.Made two swings and said those are the two best shots I ever hit.Amazing what a proper grip can do!! |
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| mkelly358 |
Posted - 07/22/2008 : 12:18:02
Count me in. After a couple of years of frustration, I spent a couple of hours going over the training club / grip video on the web site. My game has improved as much in the last two months as it did in the previous 2 years. It would be nice to have the re-enforcement of the training club for lefties.
Wouldn't mind winning the driver so here is my entry. |
| kilick |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 17:46:03
I would buy one as well .... just remember guys we stand on the right side of the ball. I'm right handed but played all sports on the left side, I guess it was my hockey training. In Canada it seems about 30% of golfers play left handed. |
| nwnatural |
Posted - 05/13/2008 : 12:37:42
I would suggest you email Scott. We had one left hander in our april school and I think they had a training club for him. |
| hak |
Posted - 05/13/2008 : 09:11:21
Where did you hear that? It isn't shown on the website. I'd be the first in line to buy one if it is available. |
| Treetop |
Posted - 04/15/2008 : 21:06:52
Hello People...haven't been here in a while, but I heard that "we" have a left hand training club. Anybody got one yet? What's your views on it?
Treetop |
| pjavery |
Posted - 03/12/2008 : 21:52:50
Add me to the list. Lefty in Indy, |
| hak |
Posted - 06/29/2007 : 23:03:13
I play from the other side as well, and would love to take the guesswork out of the grip. My question is whether the huge production cost is just for the grip, or is it due to the fact that it is attached to a swingable club? If I had just a grip with a mark for say 12 o'clock, I could install it on an old shaft. Just trying to think outside the box for us lefties to get this grip correct. |
| Hitman1970 |
Posted - 05/26/2007 : 09:24:11
I would definately buy the training club or pretty much anything Graves Academy put out for left handed golfers. I have the leverage bag and the seven principles of golf DVD series. I looked at the NG training system. Do not need the bad and no LH availability there either. Hope this helps in making a decision for production. I realize you need a viable market base or the cost would be prohibitive for the company to manufacture. |
| Treetop |
Posted - 01/01/2007 : 16:41:24
Hey Lefties!!!
Anything on a practice club for us yet? I think those righties will be shakin' in their boots if we got hold to one. Hey Todd...no need in holding back the inevitable man.....it's got to happen and everybody knows it!! Hoorah!!
Treetop
(sorry bout the drama guys :-) |
| Lefty73 |
Posted - 03/04/2006 : 21:31:37
Count Me in..... Lefty's Anonymus..... |
| Treetop |
Posted - 01/22/2006 : 19:43:41
HAPPY NEW YEAR LEFTIES....
WELL, I'M BACK IN MY YARD AGAIN, HAD SOME 50* DAYS AND IT FELT REALLY GOOD TO SWING AGAIN. I'M FINDING MY ERRORS QUICKER NOW, AND CORRECTING THEM IS BECOMING EASIER. MY AREA GOLF SHOP SUGGESTED A PRO LAUNCH MONITOR SESSION TO MEASURE ALL OF MY MECHANICS TO SEE WHAT'S GOOD FOR ME. ANY SUGGESTIONS ON THIS VENTURE? RIGHT NOW I CAN'T AFFORD TO GET TO TODD AND TIM, SO THAT'S WHY I'M LOOKING INTO THE LAUNCH MONITOR SESSION. ANY WORD ON THE LH TRAINING GRIP YET?
TREETOP
(if it ain't left, it ain't right) |
| edmp |
Posted - 10/30/2005 : 05:01:51
Al,
Yes ,I have been putting side saddle for about 5 years.I use a Jennings putter and love it.Would never putt any other way.
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| Treetop |
Posted - 10/29/2005 : 23:29:19
HELLO CHUCK,
DID I READ SOMEWHERE IN HERE THAT YOU ARE A SIDE SADDLE PUTTER? I REALLY HAVE A BETTER LOOK AT THE HOLE IN COMPARISON TO THE HOLE. WHAT TYPE OF CLUB DO YOU USE?
AL |
| edmp |
Posted - 10/14/2005 : 14:37:52
Ok ,guys since I started this thread allow me to comment on the points both Dan and melhuffman has discussed. First of all the question was not intended to create controversy or put GGA in a tough spot.I am about six months short of being a leftie for six decades.So Dan your comments about getting the short end of the stick have some credence,however from my extensive experience being one (a leftie)it is not always true.Large companies with huge markets like Ping or Taylormade, to mention only two, have always offered us wrongsiders all their latest and greatest.Using your $10,000 number a company selling thousands and thousands of units can amortize $20,000 as easily as $10,000.However, a smaller company like GGA would lose any profit margin they had,but you already know that.The point is, its very hard for a small shop to eek out a living while simultaneously putting out a superior product.GGA accomplishes this as well as any company their size that I have observed.As a side note EDMP stands for Earnings Determine Market Price and my function in life is evaluating how companies make profits.
I am personally very motivated to see GGA flourish because they have given me the gift of golf, and I am terrified at the thought of them not being there.Unlike Natural Golf, for example ,the Training Club is the only item they market that I cant have.GGA operates under a business model that sells instruction not equipment.Finally, I know firsthand that Todd and Tim are working on alternative manufacturing methods where the costs are more benign.They may or may not succede but I appreciate their effort.Buy the way if they were a club manufacturer I would not be so understanding.Where there is a will there is a way and I believe Todd and Tim will find it because I believe they care enough to try.Consequently, I would not mind paying a reasonable premium with the market dynamics being as they are.The origional reason for my post was to survey the demand inorder to evaluate solutions. Thanks for listening. |
| melhuffman |
Posted - 10/14/2005 : 07:14:28
Your statement indicating it costs 10K to create a mold for a grip - means the same price has to be paid for a right-handed grip, of which, as I understand it, there has been only two or three runs of approximately 100 grips each. That means there is one heck of a lot of grips to be made to recoup for the right-handed grips too.
My point is: Why do the lefties have to wait months or years for the "new" equipment? Marketers should realize the lefties will come, if they make it. It seems the mentality is that lefties should simply convert and play the "normal way."
I would challenge a right-handed player to try converting to the left side for a while and watch how horrid they become - and probably never achieve their maximum potential.
On an issue mentioned at the beginning of the topic - why should lefties have to pay a premium just to get access to the same equipment that righties have?
I understand all the marketing issues. I believe there are more lefties out there than are obvious, who would like to receive the latest and greatest at the same time as the "other side."
NOW, before any of you go off and think I am getting uppity about this, let me say that I am a right handed golfer - by natural bent. However, I did start playing the game as a leftie. Played baseball many years that way and golf simply fell in-line. When I was finally convinced to try the "other side." I found the drives were straighter and longer - on my natural side. SO, natural lefties will also achieve better performance on their natural side, IF they can get the gear.
Okay, I am now officially of this soapbox. |
