TOUR TRUCK STOPS OFF AT SOLIHULL

The John Letters Tour Truck visited Direct Golf Solihull this weekend. The dreary weather didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the hundreds of keen golfers, who couldn't keep themselves away from the lure of a working European Tour Truck.


Product development manager and Tour Technician James Graham was kept busy by inquisitive golfers eager to learn about the ins and outs of life on tour and keen to get their clubs worked on. James focused on custom fitting wedges on the day, offering a variety of tour only finishes and grinds not usually available on general sale.

The most popular option on the day was a torched finish. By taking the chrome off of the wedges, it opens up a variety of finish options. By taking a blow torch and heating the wedge you can change the colour of the wedge from a light gold all the way to a deep purple depending on how hot and how long you keep the blow torch on the wedge. Another popular tour option for the John Letters TP series wedge is brushed chrome. By putting the wedge on a buffing wheel it dulls the finish to a satin chrome as preferred by many better players for its glare reduction qualities.

This Saturday the van is visiting the Direct Golf UK Wirral store, there all day from 9AM.

Torrance Bags JL Tour Black Wedges

Sam Torrance had his highest finish since March this weekend, coming third at the OKI Castellón Senior Tour Championship, including a course record nine under 63 in the second round. And it was a good week for us as here at John Letters HQ,  the first week that Sam has bagged the 2011 JL Tour Black wedge in a tournament.

Developed with the tournament professional in mind, the JL Tour Black wedge features a subtle sole grind that offers relief on the heel and toe of the wedge. While using a classic teardrop head shape. When Sam first saw the wedges he told us “These are beautiful, do you have any for me to use in play next week? These will go straight in my bag." And good to his word Sam put them in as soon as he received them in his spec.

Playing a three wedge set up with a 52, 56, and a 60, Sam has his wedges shafted with KBS Tour X Flex shafts, soft-stepped for a slightly softer feel and a touch higher launch than a typical Dynamic Gold S300 shaft. This set up will help produce a little more spin, important considering the change in the groove rules this season for professionals.

Sam has also requested a 54 degree wedge to use on certain courses. This show's the attention to detail tour pro's go to, taking extra equipment options to each tournament. In this case the 54 degree sand wedge replaces both the 52 and 56 degree wedges for weeks where he feels the course requires an extra long iron, hybrid or fairway wood. As 54 degrees isn’t one of our stock loft options, co-designer of the Tour Black wedge James Graham has bent and stamped a 56 degree sand wedge to his specs.

The JL Tour Black wedge will be available in store from March next season.