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The ERC name has been used in Callaway Golf brand/model. It is actually short for Ely Reeves Callaway, the founder of Callaway. It was first used in their longest driver - the ERC and later also the irons.  Callaway have been very much into golf balls and are now the second largest by a mile. The Callaway Chrome Soft was a huge success. Now they have introduced the ERC Soft which like the Chrome Soft were infused with Graphene. Graphene sells for $100 to $200 per gram and is super strong, even stronger than diamond. The inventors of graphene were Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. They are also present in golf's graphite shaft such as the Aldila Synergy. This is one of the world's strongest and yet a very flexible material known to mankind.  It is here to help the 3-piece ERC Soft to be of soft feel and yet strong and rigid to retain energy and deliver ball speed with a high launch and low spin. The added speciality of this ball is the "Triple Track Technology...

Another year has quickly gone by. Even the Lunar New Year has come and gone. Prior to that I managed to squeeze in a game and the wonderful buggy man at the club has so kindly shown his thoughtfulness by issuing a buggy with the number "88". It was a good gesture even though I am not a numbers man nor superstitious. It was his thought of a double prosperity. This is what quality service is all about - a little thought and a little touch.  This time of the year you will have many friends who would send you horoscope. I call them horror scope. Put it this way, most people have an average life and in life there will be ups and downs. The horrible scope will say which signs are good and which bad for the year. I have observed for so many years, those who are supposed to have good or bad generally have an average year. Some who are supposed to have good year turned out bad and vice versa. If a person fell and scratched his knees, is it good or bad? It is good b...

I was a late starter to golf where I once considered it an old man's game due to the much faster sport I was engaged in like soccer, badminton and squash. All fast and furious with opponents who would make you run, block you and tackle you. Golf looks so simple and boring. Just stand there and hit the ball, what's the problem? Well, you can either play like a pro or become a pro-blem. Friends passed to me a few steel shafted irons to try at the range. It was terrible but when you hit the occasional good shots, you can get a high. I have always been telling people not to give up golf at the range. At least do it to a level where you can get into the actual golf course. As a beginner back then, I could not hit the woods well so I stuck to irons even when teeing off and I was told that if I did not use a driver I would lose out. I could not hit it to save my life! So I tried to use a 3-wood and realise it was better. My late uncle Lum then gave me one of his older 3-wood ...

In the past when you bought a full standard set of golf clubs, they give you a driver and putter, 3-9 irons, a pitching wedge, a sand wedge and two fairway woods - a no. 3 and a no. 5. With the advent of the golf hybrid, few people use the 3-4 irons today. Many also struggled with the fairway wood especially the no. 3 as it is almost as long as a driver at 43 inches and a loft of 15 degrees and most of the times we use an iron swing. While it is true that mostly the golf swing is the same for every club, the longer clubs require a wider arc and therefore somewhat flatter just before impact opposed to the iron swing with a sharper angle of attack onto the ball to compress it. Is the fairway wood dead? The Callaway RAZR X Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RO_gMXbJh0 The key technologies are down to the large stainless steel head with Callaway's VFT face technology which creates faster ball speeds across the face. They use a heat treatment method to achieve an ul...

No matter what clubs you are using, you will need a good swing to do the job. Before you can catch a fish or learn the other finer points of fishing, you will need to know how to use the rod to cast the line. To many golfers, the most important clubs in your bad are not the irons. May be so for most will feel that if you do not tee off well with a driver, you are disadvantaged. It may be true to a certain extent but if you do not use your irons well, you may not get to use the most important club in the bag - your putter. It is like participating in the Japanese Sasuke where you have to clear stages of obstacles and at certain obstacles, you may have to redo them a few times and by the time you did it, it is game over. You may not realise it but whenever you irons are on song, all your putting becomes sitters - like a goal mouth tap-in in soccer, like a morning  smoothie when you have enough vegetables and fruits. Opportunities for birdies and pars start to appear everywh...