"Coming Soon (in the next 30-90 days)
- New virtual goods from ... Hogan"
Dear WGT,
Please consider this an opportunity to take advantage of a gap in current club choices which fits in with the company's advertised flexibility. Ben Hogan company website makes a huge deal about offering clubs in single degree increments to allow the golfer to fully customize a set to get the yardage gaps to fit. With the US Open courses recently added (Pinehurst and Chambers Bay) featuring longer par 4s and the usual Legend tee par 3s on several courses in the 220 to 240 yard range, the option to configure clubsets for each course seems more intriguing than ever before.
Most importantly IMO, a 17 or 18 degree hybrid rated for 235 yards matching the meter and spin of the level 89 and 97 Callaway woods to fill the gap between those longer 3 woods which are rated over 240 yards and the upper level 3 irons rated for 220 - 225 yards seems a natural fit. And since this would necessitate sacrificing the extra wedge that has been common practice over the last several years, a couple of those TK wedges with matching meter speeds in perhaps 54 and 62 degree lofts rated for 90 and 65 yards respectively would offer yardage increments that seem to fit without duplicating the Cleveland and Taylor Made wedge offerings already available.
To make it even more attractive, pairing the hybrid and wedges with a matching set of irons to given even 15 yard gaps from the hybrid to the Pitching Wedge and selling that as a complete set package would be a very enticing offer. Matter of fact, I personally guarantee that I would break into the secret stash my wife knows nothing about to have that set within the first 36 hours after it was released.