Golf In The Family (Business)

One of my favorite people came around the other day to have Charlie reshaft a hickory iron using the hickory shaft from another club. This guy buys, collects and sells golf clubs, vintage and new, and has a good eye for what makes money. A complete set of hickory irons is much more valuable than individual clubs.

A set of matching irons, typically six or seven pieces, (they weren't all numbered 100 years ago the way they are now) is hard to find. This collector found such a set but one of the irons had a shaft that didn't match the rest of the clubs. He also found an iron with the right hickory shaft that did match. So he had to find someone to swap the shafts.

This is not a job you can give to your local big box golf store to do. It's not even a job you can give most independent golf retailers to handle because it requires tools and expertise that vanished early in the last century. But you can get that job done here at Klees Golf Shop.

The after-work "party" we had at the golf shop to launch the new Ping G20 line of woods and irons went well given how short the time frame was for publicizing the event. A combination of signage, email and social media brought in around 10 customers, who were fitted for Ping drivers, irons and hybrids, entered a free raffle for a new Ping putter and got to eat a very nice spread from Calabria Deli.

It looks like almost all of the product made available for the fittings was sold, plus a couple of orders for irons followed later. At a time when everyone seems to be playing less golf the response to Ping's new line is a welcome morale booster for us.

This was the first time Klees Golf Shop hosted such an event and we're planning to repeat this venture with another manufacturer in the next two or three weeks. Stay tuned.

In many ways Fathers Day is like Christmas at the golf shop. It's the one day of the year when dads are given golf clubs (or other gear) without concern for price. There are enough new gadgets, driver models, putter choices and golf balls to make any dad, uncle or grandfather a happy golfer.

We offering a free $25 gift card with the purchase of a Bushnell V2 Patriot Rangefinder, Golf Buddy GPS World or Callaway uPro MX Golf GPS, all available on the website. We're also getting some Callaway 2011 Diablo Octane drivers on a deal.

If the rain or heat keep Dad inside there's always the Perfect Putting Aid for putting practice. We use it at the shop to show customers how shoulder alignment, stance and stroke noticeably improve with this device.

There are always golf balls and the Titleist NXT line is $5 off or get a free dozen Callaway Tour i(s) or i(z) with a Vector Pro Launch Monitor fitting. Like getting two Fathers Day gifts for the price of one.