
Golf Equipment
Irons
Miura Golf has been a major golf equipment manufacturer behind the scenes of most of the great names in golf for the last 4 decades.
You probably haven't heard of the company's founder despite the fact he has been the worldwide golf industry's most respected club craftsman for over 48 years. His company has manufactured high-end golf clubs (their iron sets start at over $1,000) used by many professional stars while under contract with some of the leading American equipment OEMs.
Katsuhiro Miura was 16 when he began his career as a craftsman in Himeji, Japan, a city of more than 470,000 residents that is known as Japan's steel region. It is also the home of the ancient art of samurai sword making. In 1928 master sword craftsman made the countrys first golf irons, and Himeji quickly moved away from sword production and became known for its golf club production.
Mr. Miura has been making forged golf clubs for over 48 years. His Japanese company, Miura Golf Co. Ltd., manufactures its own clubs in Japan, and the clubs are sold in North America under the name Miura Golf. At the age of 23, Mr. Miura founded Miura Mfg. Co. Ltd. His mastery of producing forged irons has earned him worldwide praise. In fact, the Japanese have longed claimed Miura has "God's hands."
Mr. Miura's creations are not only popular with tour professionals and low-handicap players, but also with the average golfer who has lowered their handicap by taking advantage of the craftmanship of the clubs.
In addition, Titleist hired Mr. Miura to make limited-edition irons for Tiger Woods when he was playing Titleist clubs. Mr. Miura used Titleist dies and design, and then manufactured Woods' clubs using his own 14-step process.
Mr. Miura's passion for producing only the most perfect irons requires that he avoid the mass-production process used by most other club companies, and include in his process a significant component of hands-on craftmanship, including hand-weighing and balancing each club before they are shipped. This separates Miura Golf from all other golf-equipment companies.
For the complete story, please check out the Miura Golf web site. There you can see the full line of clubs and especially the new models for this year.
Miura's latest innovation was inspired by the search for the "best feel." The CB-301's center of gravity moves toward the neck from the center of the scoreline for a more accurate shot. The CB-301 allows golfers to have a strong, stable shot and better control during the swing with its unique weight balance of the toe, sole, and hosel areas.
Check them out at the Miura Golf web site.
Tour Quality Wedge Play
A Complete Guide
John Redd, is one of the owners and the Director of Golf at the Tour & Players School in Orlando, Florida. He has dedicated over 20 years to learning the mechanical skills of a great golf swing and helping players improve their games. He has helped players from the PGA, LPGA, Senior PGA, European, Asian, and Canadian Tours and teaching professionals from across the country. He teaches a zero-compensation single-axis golf swing and is considered by many professional golfers, to be the finest wedge, short game, and putting coach available today. Up-and-coming players, both amateur and professional, work with him to improve their game.
To learn more about this book that will truely help your scoring, check out tourqualitygolf.com
The Systems Approach to Golfing
by Chip Heyl
Learning to play golf well can be a frustrating and extremely difficult experience. What some of us have learned is that teaching someone else to play golf well can be every bit as difficult and frustrating!
Chip Heyl's book Systems Approach to Golfing takes the mystery and the menace out of both learning and teaching. Chip's contribution for the learner is to provide him a book that addresses every aspect of the game in a straight-forward, logical fashion.
The many excellent graphics Chip has developed present the basics of every type of shot clearly and concisely. For the teacher, Chip's System Approach provides an incomparable classroom resource which should help focus and encourage classroom participation and subsequent practice sessions.
Go to Chip's web site to get more information on this excellent book that will help your golf game, http://www.golfsystems1.com.