October 14 – 18, 2009 in Columbus Georgia
The Association of Golf Clubfitting Professionals, the AGCP, worldwide leader in education for clubfitters and clubmakers announces the Schedule for their 4th annual Roundtable Education event October 14 – 18, 2009 in Columbus, Georgia.
The event is open to all club fitters, club makers, PGA professionals, other golf industry professionals, but not the general public. Advanced techniques will be presented in workshops led by the top club-fitters in the world. Many classes are taught by one of 11 Masters of Golf Club Technology, highest qualified AGCP members. Other classes are taught by members with Level 10 Certification. To apply to become a Master of Golf Club Technology a member must first obtain the Level 10 Certification. These sessions are packed full of the cutting edge techniques for club fitting and club building, that have been refined by these Masters of their trade are designed to create better club fitters and club builders as well as more profitable businesses. Previous Roundtables have been filmed and made available on DVDs. They can be found in the AGCP Store. These are the actual live presentations given by the AGCP Masters of Golf Club Technology at the Roundtable sessions with all the asides, Q&A and comments. They might not win an Oscar for production values, but they are packed with the wisdom of the best in the world in clubfitting and clubbuilding. RT4 will be held in the Columbus Iron Works and Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Georgia. This is an historic Civil war site. The Columbus Iron Works produced cannons, swords, and the iron clad ships for the South. The building was restored and put on the National Historic Register. It has been transformed into a modern, state of the art convention center.
Tuesday, October 13 , Pre-View Day in Columbus, Georgia
OptimalFlight will offer an exclusive all day event before the Roundtable. OptimalFlight certification will be held in the morning, and an advanced class (outdoor hands-on workshop for certified users only), will be offered in both the afternoon & evening. Class sizes are limited.
Register: http://www.qualitygolfstats.com/introrate_iphone.html
Wednesday October 14, 2009
Woodland Hills GC
Begins as soon as we have no frost, or 11AM.
Demo Day
Sponsors will have demo clubs and products set up on the Range at Woodland Hills GC. Sponsors will bring everything from launch monitors to shafts and more.
Sponsors who have confirmed they will be here:
Aldila
Club Conex
Enzo Shafts
Golf Achiever – Focaltron
Infiniti Golf
Leaderboard Golf
OptimalFlight
S K Fiber Shafts
Swingrite
Swing Science
The following Sponsors have not confirmed yet, but have indicated they want to be here. (we will not know until just before the RT)
ACCRA – UST – KBS Shafts –
Alpha Golf
Aerotech Shafts
Global Tour Golf – Star Grips
Silencer System
True Length Technologies
Presentation at Woodland Hills
Spotting and Correcting Swing Flaws for Major Improvements in your fittings.
A half day session on Swing dynamics and Club dynamics – Dana Upshaw and Bob Uebelhor.
Learn how to analyze a golf swing and know what you can fix with golf clubs and what you need a teaching professional to fix. Learn to change the flex, length, weight, and balance point on a golf club to achieve the correction you want for your golfer. If you have wondered what to look for, and what to look at in a golf swing to help fit your golfer better this is a class you don’t want to miss. Two of golf’s 11 Masters of Golf Club Technology will guide you through the golf swing and how to analyze your golfers swing.
Thursday – October 15, 2009
Columbus Convention & Trade Center
8am – 9:50am
Jerry Lovell – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology
Jerry, from Port St. Lucie Florida will be assisted in his presentation by Dan Wilt – Level 10 Qualified and Bill Marshall – Level 10 Qualified.
First Class on Grinding – Equipment needs, efficient work-flow setup, vendors/suppliers/sources, etc. – Jerry is another Master of Golf Club Technology and he will take you through all the ins and outs of grinding in a series of sessions at RT-4. This first session will go through the basics and tell you the equipment you need in your shop to offer a grinding service as a profit center in your shop, and the sources and suppliers you will need to get the equipment and supplies for your grinding service.
9:50am – 10am Break for restroom, snacks
10am – 11am
Jerry Hoefling Sr. – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology,
Tricks of the trade to help you in fitting & building – As an AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology Jerry has acquired a wealth of valuable techniques over the years to help him build and repair golf equipment. Jerry will spend a full session sharing the various short cuts and methods that he has learned over his career with you.
11am Break until 1pm for restroom and Sponsor’s Exhibits
1pm – 2pm
Roy Nix – AGCP Founder and Executive Director, and guests – Opening Ceremonies, Program Orientation, Introductions, Announcements and Questions and Answers
Any last minute changes to the schedule, special events, new hospitality rooms, sponsor events, etc. will be announced here. A few words of welcome and an explanation of the schedule.
2pm until 3:30pm
Jerry Lovell – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology
Jerry, from Port St. Lucie Florida will be assisted in his presentation by Dan Wilt – Level 10 Qualified and Bill Marshall – Level 10 Qualified.
Second session on Grinding – Grinding from blanks, measuring for bounce, shaping to certain model standards/styles. In Jerry’s second session Jerry, Dan and Bill will go into an advanced class to show you how to take blank unfinished club heads and grind them into a finished head with the characteristics you want.
3:30pm Break for restrooms and exhibits
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Jerry Lovell – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology
Jerry, from Port St. Lucie Florida will be assisted in his presentation by Dan Wilt – Level 10 Qualified and Bill Marshall – Level 10 Qualified.
Third Session on Grinding – Grinding OEM products, matching finishes, using bluing, blacking, blasting as finish techniques. In the third session you will learn how to grind your customer’s existing clubs, what to do about the existing finish on the clubs and all the techniques needed to accomplish grinding on finished clubs.
5:30pm we will break and meet at the Naval Museum for the Members Meeting and Dinner at 6:30pm
6:30pm – Member’s & Sponsor’s Dinner Columbus Naval Museum
This year the hotels are only 5 minutes from the Museum. That allows us to have longer class sessions and start dinner earlier which will allow you to spend more time at the hotels meeting and talking with new friends.
6:30pm to 7:00pm will be a Free Tour of the Confederate Naval Museum
7:00pm – Dinner is served once again by Country’s Bar-B-Que
7:30pm – Mike Moyanahan will give us a presentation on the AGCP Masters Program and explain the process for becoming an AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology. Mike’s presentation will be followed by the induction of the first 11 Masters of Golf Club Technology and the presentation of their Plaques. Following the Ceremonies we will adjourn until Friday Morning at the Convention Center.
Friday October 16, 2009
8am – 9:30am
Jerry Hoefling Sr. – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology,
BMT Driver Shaft Fitting – Jerry will teach you how and why to use the BMT software he developed for driver fitting. Fit 80% of your golfers in only minutes.
9:30 – 9:40 Restroom break
9:40am – 11:00am
Russ Ryden – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology,
A review of his use of the Casio EX-F1 high speed movie camera.
Russ Ryden is from Austin TX and was an early adopter of the technology and worked closely with Dane Wiren, of Golf Around the World and developer of Swing View Pro. Together, they addressed the needs of club fitters, adding and testing new features to Swing View Pro. Russ has explored club and putter fitting application of the camera. He will show and discuss high speed video of the golf swing, shaft loading and the golf ball. In addition to fitting applications, creation of promotional slow motion video for internet marketing will be reviewed.
11:00am – 1:00pm Break for lunch, restrooms and Exhibits
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Jerry Hoefling Sr. – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology,
What does changing the balance point do to a golf club – Jerry will be bringing a number of case studies and a few clubs with extreme weight distribution to illustrate what happens to the golf swing with the balance point is altered. This will help you get your golfer more center face contact and more accurate golf shot.
3:00pm – 3:15pm – Restroom Break
3:15pm – 5:pm
Bill Kelly – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology,
The How to and Why of Counterweighting with actual case histories and data from fittings.
Bill Kelly – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology and Teaching Professional in Santa Barbara California has been working with Tour Lock and Opti-Vibe weighting systems for years now and will show you a number of golfer’s case histories and how the weighting system helped. Bill will show you the swing characteristics to look for and how to use counter weights to help that golfer improve their ball striking ability.
Saturday October 17, 2009
8am – 11am
Jerry Lovell – AGCP Master of Golf Club Technology
Jerry, from Port St. Lucie Florida will be assisted in his presentation by Dan Wilt – Level 10 Qualified and Bill Marshall – Level 10 Qualified.
Fourth session – Hands On LAB – putting it all together – Jerry’s final session will be a hands on LAB session where you can get some bench time with several members observing and showing you proper techniques.
11am til Noon – break for lunch and exhibits
Noon till 1:00pm
Theo Erben – One of The Netherland’s most respected clubfitters and club builders works with many of the top professional in the Netherlands. Theo who has been fortunate enough to have been taught the art of putter fitting by Paul Hurrion, who trains Padraig Harrington, will be traveling all the way from the Netherlands to show us what he has learned about Putter Fitting.
Throughout the week our AGCP Sponsors will be exhibiting their products for members and other clubmakers who attend.
1:00pm til 2:00pm break for exhibits
2:00 pm till 2:50pm
Leith Anderson AGCP Level 10
Selling Counterweights with the Achiever Launch Monitor
Leith Anderson has made balancing golf clubs an integral part of his business plan. In the last year, he has sold over 450 Balance Certified Stabilizers for drivers and thousands of Tour Lock counterweights for irons. Leith has perfected a quick and easy fitting method utilizing the Golf Achiever launch monitor that yields a very high close rate. The method can be used with any swing analysis method that measures and records ball speed, swing path, face angle at impact and trajectory. “Free” counterweight fittings have produced $1000 per day in sales at a 75% gross margin. The service builds traffic and leads to add on business. Best of all, customers hit better shots and give you credit. The presentation will be an open forum with RT4 participants taking part in the fitting procedure. Forty minute presentation with ten minutes for open discussion.
2:50pm – 3:00pm – restroom break
3:00pm – time remaining until no later than 4:30pm – we have to leave to get to Hunter’s Pub at 5pm.
Leith Anderson AGCP Level 10 Qualified
Business Models and Marketing Strategy for Club Fitters
An important responsibility for any trade organization is to “own the business model”. Business decisions must be made “on the numbers”. Leith Anderson has researched the “life cycle” of custom clubmakers. From home based businesses to driving ranges, tour vans to inline retail stores. In each instance, there is a business model that “works”. There is also risk for operators that make the wrong choices. The landscape is littered with clubmakers who lost all of their money and quit. The presentation will cover model income statements for four levels of activity. It will also give estimates of required investments in time and money to achieve success. If you are a part time club maker thinking about expanding to a van or part time retail store, or a part time club maker thinking about a full time commitment, you will be able to use the numbers as a “road map”. The goal is to avoid the pitfalls.
Discussion will cover: Services offered, pricing models, inventory levels, managing technology, working with OEM’s, marketing programs and succession planning. Forty five minute presentation. Questions and answers in time remaining.
All information in this release has been obtained from reliable sources and believed to be correct but is not guaranteed. All information is subject to change without notice.
To Register: http://agcpgolf.com/Store/html/roundtable_registration.html
Contact:
Roy Nix
McNix Custom Golf
5045 Milgen Court – Unit 12
Columbus, GA 31907
www.McNixGolf.com
706-324-7490
r.nix@McNixGolf.com
