The Hotblade brand is now also competing in the golf ball category and its Double Ti Distance ball, available in 15-ball (white or yellow) packs for £19.99.įor a chance to win one of the latest Golf Buddy hand-held GPS measuring devices worth over £300, tell us about the clubs in your bag. Hotblade also features black and chrome Hotblade wedges (£69.99) with a special grind on the sole and a specialist bunker wedge, the 56 and 60-degree Hotblade Blaster (£59.99) which, the company claims, takes the fear out of any kind of shots from sand with its unique head design concentrating weight in the sole. Prices range from £69.99 to £99 with golfers receiving access to the exclusive in-store Hotblade putter fitting system. The Hotblade Tour line includes face technology to reduce skidding while the flagship T-shaped Hotblade Rudder model, has been made for easier alignment and with horizontal grooves to improve roll. The Hotblade Tad Moore Classic Series - HB001, HB002 and HB003 - feature precision milled aluminium faces with a heel and toe weighted head design and red inserts to enhance feel and control. Six time major winner Nick Faldo was among the players who used Hotblade's original creations and now Moore, best remembered for his line of Maxfli putters in the 1980s and 1990s, is making flat sticks which are helping to boost Hotblade sales by over 20 per-cent. That way you really do get a true feeling back so that you can understand if you mishit a putt versus hitting a putt on the right place on the putter.Īll these kind of things you think about when you’re designing something.Hotblade Golf, whose putter designer Tad Moore (pictured above right) has been crafting putters for over 50 years, has announced record sales for its putters and specialist wedges. So what I try and do is recreate the feel of the old golf club and the new golf club. A hickory putter, although it really doesn’t have much torque – people want to say torque when you’re talking about hickory – it does have a lot of feel. And I think most people see that.īy looking at the old game and looking at what I do in the new game, I think there are some really good things I can draw from, particularly in the case of putters. The supposed gains in equipment have not necessarily been gains that brought about tremendous reduction in our scores. It points out you have to hit in the fairway, knock it on the green and then have to make putts. So what it has proven to me is that the game is pretty much the same. People who play with hickory clubs will play basically the same score they shoot with modern clubs, but they’re playing from a shorter distance. We’re playing the hickory game with a modern golf ball, and we play from yardages that are less than what we would play with modern clubs. MOORE: The statement people make about there is very little new in the game of golf is probably pretty true. Q.: Is there anything you have found by going back and reproducing these old clubs that is applicable to today’s designs? It’s a great experience, a lot of people are finding out more about hickory clubs and playing them. We even manufacture clubs that were played around 1880 to 1885. So we do manufacture a line of reproduction pre-1935 hickory clubs. The main thing was the wood lathes to turn the shafts. I acquired most of the old Otey Crisman club-making equipment. So I started making hickory clubs about 10 or 12 years ago, and that is ultimately what brought me here to Selma. My friend just said to me, ‘Well, why don’t you just make them? You make other clubs.’ MOORE: I got very interested in playing with hickory golf clubs back around 1990 and in playing with them, I found it was very difficult to get certain good scoring or playing clubs over here or even in Scotland. Q.: For all of the golf club’s evolution, you have turned back the clock somewhat and are now making hickory clubs, correct? And Bob is a great machinist, and I went to him and we had some great putters manufactured there at Bettinardi. Scott and I were friends, so I had him help me make the Maxfli putters.īob Bettinardi actually manufactured some putters for me for about three years. He had left the company he previously worked for and didn’t really have anything going. MOORE: Scotty was involved when we did the first Maxfli milled putters, so I guess you could say he did work for me or worked on that same project. Q.: Did noted clubmakers Scotty Cameron and Bob Bettinardi work for you? In the second part of Moore’s interview with The Golf Wire’s Stuart Hall, Moore talks about the past, including his penchant for hickory clubs. By the early 1960s, Moore was designing his own clubs for others to play. Tad Moore was first introduced to the craft of clubmaking at a golf club outside of Toledo, Ohio, where his mother played.
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