anyone have good/bad experience at Foregolf?

big_drive

gorfield wrote: »

Had a full fitting today in their new facility in Killeen castle, the new setup is of the highest quality end of.

Right my situation.....Im ordering new irons, and wanted an opinion on my R11 driver burner 3w and rescue, purely on the shafts as the heads were tour issued so nothing wrong with the heads!

Irons- My current setup is fine, only changes to make for new irons is weight, which is ideal as the new irons ordered are tmade mb blades with interchangeable weights......Foregolf are the only golf company permitted to carry these weights independantly- Result! So-i wasnt at any time pushed into changing the shafts for profit reasons....in fact i wanted something different and Derek highlighted the performance from my own is spot on!

My new irons will have 3,4,5 iron with nippon 950gh x tipped 1/4".
6-pw iron with DG SL x100
So..........You might notice 2 different shafts in my irons?? This is the setup i have at the mo however my current 6-pw are much heavier than my 3 4 5 iron...... These were built on tour......:rolleyes:
Foregolf will be able to have all my new irons weighted identical.... I cant see anyone else being able to build a set of clubs in this detail!
This attention to detail dosnt seem to me like a slamdunk business transaction.... We left my wedges until end of feb as im in OZ from next week at tournaments. Again no pressure.

They refused to change my driver shaft, my current one performing well, however as im working on my fitness il need something slightly different later in the year, so they are building me a Miyazaki black x, this will be a backup for later months and can be collected whenever!

3w- Changed this......motore speeder will be replaced for an oldschool speeder 757 x flex.....and will be ready in a few days......

rescue- No change as my own felt and performed well.

Loft and lie check and adjustments on all irons..(at my request)

Not once did i feel like i was being sold anything, whoever comes up with this opinion obviously goes there with a chip on their shoulder or some kind of agenda. Yes of course these people run a business! The fitting fee clearly covers an hour (and more usually) of world class golf club fitters, along with a huge selection of equipment in all brands at your disposal! I mean come on!! Where else would you get this facility without being a tour player!

Anyway its certainly worth it to be given the option of having the best equipment possible in your bag. Im very lucky to be a good player, but never have i asked for or recieved special treatment. Ive always been treated exactly the same as a 20hcap person trying to improve, and thats a good thing!

So end the begrudgery i think and lets applaud an irish run business that has grown hugely in stature in a very difficult period in Ireland.

G

Just wondering how many wedges you carry & what lofts?

Also what putter you use & what specs etc? Were you fitted for putter

gorfield

big_drive wrote: »

Just wondering how many wedges you carry & what lofts?

Also what putter you use & what specs etc? Were you fitted for putter

I have 48 53 58.5 wedges

I use a 16yr old taylomade nubbins.....why?? It works!!

gorfield

golfnut1 wrote: »

Great feedback gorfield
I have no doubt these guys are good at what they do but the problem I and others have is if their niche market is custom fitting then fine let them charge x for fitting and specs.
Making a sale mandatory in order to get the specs is like eating your cake and wanting it too in my opinion.
I'm sure they are nice guys and all that but there business model puts a lot of people off using them.

what's the point in you taking your specs and some cowboy butchering your clubs?? Don't be silly, go to foregolf, your full of criticism and you haven't been there! I think a Ferrari is terrible value for money, they won't sell you a new one, u have to be invited by them to own one!! I heard they are real gangsters in maranello!! Have I been there? No... Have I driven a Ferrari? No.... :rolleyes:

golfnut1

gorfield wrote: »

golfnut1 wrote: »

Great feedback gorfield
I have no doubt these guys are good at what they do but the problem I and others have is if their niche market is custom fitting then fine let them charge x for fitting and specs.
Making a sale mandatory in order to get the specs is like eating your cake and wanting it too in my opinion.
I'm sure they are nice guys and all that but there business model puts a lot of people off using them.

what's the point in you taking your specs and some cowboy butchering your clubs?? Don't be silly, go to foregolf, your full of criticism and you haven't been there! I think a Ferrari is terrible value for money, they won't sell you a new one, u have to be invited by them to own one!! I heard they are real gangsters in maranello!! Have I been there? No... Have I driven a Ferrari? No.... :rolleyes:

By cowboys I presume you mean custom built direct from the likes of mizuno, titleist, taylormade yeah I know right cowboys alright.
If you can't figure out why you have to purchase in order to get your specs that's your own fault.
The old saying fool and his money comes to mind

gorfield

golfnut1 wrote: »

By cowboys I presume you mean custom built direct from the likes of mizuno, titleist, taylormade yeah I know right cowboys alright.
If you can't figure out why you have to purchase in order to get your specs that's your own fault.
The old saying fool and his money comes to mind

I have access to tour dept of many brands!! Do you think id ignore that if i wasnt sure foregolf was the best? sorry but my equipment is of the upmost importance to me! For the sake of a small price difference im delighted with the fact i have the best clubs possible!

Benny Cake

golfnut1 wrote: »

By cowboys I presume you mean custom built direct from the likes of mizuno, titleist, taylormade yeah I know right cowboys alright.
If you can't figure out why you have to purchase in order to get your specs that's your own fault.
The old saying fool and his money comes to mind

How about this for a scenario: Foregolf fit you for a full set of clubs. You go direct to Titleist with their spec sheet and ask them to build your clubs as per fore golfs fitting.

Six months done the line you're not entirely happy with the driver, who's accountable? You cant go back to Titleist as they only built the clubs you asked for, Fore Golf will tell you they can't be responsible for clubs they didn't build.
Why on earth would you want to get fitted by one company and get another to build your clubs? That sounds like madness to me...

gorfield

Benny Cake wrote: »

How about this for a scenario: Foregolf fit you for a full set of clubs. You go direct to Titleist with their spec sheet and ask them to build your clubs as per fore golfs fitting.

Six months done the line you're not entirely happy with the driver, who's accountable? You cant go back to Titleist as they only built the clubs you asked for, Fore Golf will tell you they can't be responsible for clubs they didn't build.
Why on earth would you want to get fitted by one company and get another to build your clubs? That sounds like madness to me...

Thread closed.

golfnut1

gorfield wrote: »

I have access to tour dept of many brands!! Do you think id ignore that if i wasnt sure foregolf was the best? sorry but my equipment is of the upmost importance to me! For the sake of a small price difference im delighted with the fact i have the best clubs possible!

I'm glad your happy with your with equipment. As I said before I'm sure the guys are great at what they do. At the level you play at I have no doubt that your are more than qualified the access whether they are the business or not.
I just don't like the pricing structure and as a matter of principle would not use them but each to there own.

golfnut1

Benny Cake wrote: »

How about this for a scenario: Foregolf fit you for a full set of clubs. You go direct to Titleist with their spec sheet and ask them to build your clubs as per fore golfs fitting.

Six months done the line you're not entirely happy with the driver, who's accountable? You cant go back to Titleist as they only built the clubs you asked for, Fore Golf will tell you they can't be responsible for clubs they didn't build.
Why on earth would you want to get fitted by one company and get another to build your clubs? That sounds like madness to me...

Who's accountable? That would be you for being such a fussy git!!!

If you can't understand why I'd like that as an option well I'm not going to bother explaining it to you

gorfield

golfnut1 wrote: »

I'm glad your happy with your with equipment. As I said before I'm sure the guys are great at what they do. At the level you play at I have no doubt that your are more than qualified the access whether they are the business or not.
I just don't like the pricing structure and as a matter of principle would not use them but each to there own.

Thats a pity, one of my clubmates bought new titleist irons there and including the fitting price the price difference from mcguirks custom fitting into a net was a little under 190e. If you have your clubs 4yrs thats 47.50 per year. Possibly worth the investment imho

golfnut1

gorfield wrote: »

Thats a pity, one of my clubmates bought new titleist irons there and including the fitting price the price difference from mcguirks custom fitting into a net was a little under 190e. If you have your clubs 4yrs thats 47.50 per year. Possibly worth the investment imho

Yeah I'd agree.
It's not necessarily the money.
If foregolf quoted me €190 for a fitting and specs I might go with that
If they were competitive on the clubs id would probably get the lot from them but paying for a session and not getting my specs unless I buy from them is not a runner for me.
Anyway good luck with the new sticks regardless where they came from or what the pricing structure was on them!!

Benny Cake

golfnut1 wrote: »

Who's accountable? That would be you for being such a fussy git!!!

If you can't understand why I'd like that as an option well I'm not going to bother explaining it to you

LOLLERS! Of course I'm a fussy git, thats why I got fitted in the first place

Hacker111

Getting fitted for a new driver with Derek in 2 weeks...cannot wait.... already got my irons and fairway woods there..top class

So many drivers out there to work with... must say RBZ and new Cleveland especially really look good....:D

kyleman

I got fitted about a year ago for fairway woods and irons and love them.Let us know how driver fitting goes,im deifneitly going up to be fitted this month,thanks hacker

big_drive

Have foregolf started fitting for the taylormade R11s or RBZ yet? Wondering how the results have gone

Deep Thought

Just wondering...

Would they make mods to my current irons rather than buying new ones?

big_drive

Yes they would

irishtoffee

Had new shafts put im my irons and driver at Foregolf.Irons ended up a 1/4 inch shorter than standard and after 3 months of playing the worst golf of my life I went to Carton House with a mate to get fitted for Titleist AP2s.Turned out Foregolf fitted me completely wrong as I'm now using 1/2 inch longer than standard irons and playing off 6 handcap.I won't talk about how wrong the shaft they put in my driver was for me.I know they have got awards and things at Foregolf but I personally wouldn't recconend them.

big_drive

Surprised to hear foregolf making a mistake like that , a rare slip up I'd imagine.

dines08

big_drive wrote: »

Surprised to hear foregolf making a mistake like that , a rare slip up I'd imagine.

Either that or he works in Carton House

irishtoffee

dines08 wrote: »

big_drive wrote: »

Surprised to hear foregolf making a mistake like that , a rare slip up I'd imagine.

Either that or he works in Carton House

Just giving my answer to the OP question.For what it's worth I'd love a job at Carton House.

Hacker111

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irishtoffee wrote: »

Had new shafts put im my irons and driver at Foregolf.Irons ended up a 1/4 inch shorter than standard and after 3 months of playing the worst golf of my life I went to Carton House with a mate to get fitted for Titleist AP2s.Turned out Foregolf fitted me completely wrong as I'm now using 1/2 inch longer than standard irons and playing off 6 handcap.I won't talk about how wrong the shaft they put in my driver was for me.I know they have got awards and things at Foregolf but I personally wouldn't recconend them.

I'm amazed TBH....either they mixed numbers up with someone else or something is just not right here..... if they were so wrong and i imagine you paid top dollar for irons/shaft in driver etc why didn't you go back with the other specs and demand your money back??

irishtoffee

In hindsight mate I probably should have went back to them.Sold my irons without making a loss. Can I ask you all when you got fitted at Foregolf did Derek show you all the different ball flights and distances and spin rates on the computer screens after a few shots? I was never shown anything.Was just told "trust me this is the club for you" i was new to all this fitting stuff and went with it.At Carton Henry showed me all the specs on the computer screen of how I hit it when I arrived,how I was hitting it when we nearly had the right club and finally when we had the club perfect for me.The difference in my ball flight,spin rates and distance and how many layers of tape I'd need under the grip.Maybe I was just one of the unlucky ones at Foregolf.

Hacker111

irishtoffee wrote: »

In hindsight mate I probably should have went back to them.Sold my irons without making a loss. Can I ask you all when you got fitted at Foregolf did Derek show you all the different ball flights and distances and spin rates on the computer screens after a few shots? I was never shown anything.Was just told "trust me this is the club for you" i was new to all this fitting stuff and went with it.At Carton Henry showed me all the specs on the computer screen of how I hit it when I arrived,how I was hitting it when we nearly had the right club and finally when we had the club perfect for me.The difference in my ball flight,spin rates and distance and how many layers of tape I'd need under the grip.Maybe I was just one of the unlucky ones at Foregolf.

TBH I was there 5 years ago and I don't recall much computer feedback..I'm actually there on saturday for a driver fitting so I'll let u know.....

Hacker111

went today...100% satisfied (apart from my girlie swing speed! No dodgy numbers there:D)...ego battered

You get to see dozens of stats, graphs, visuals of ball flight... they compare all drivers/shafts etc as Derek keeps tweaking...plus ur given 6 pages of info take away to read later on re ur swing... u can see dispersion per club, distance hit to allow you decide whats best...

Final result for me was 19 yrds longer than my existing driver (it was shortened but still massive increase). My massive issue is lack of swing speed

My cousin went too and he was killing it...103 mph avg swing speed.... 265 yrds distance...... 20 mph more than me.....

Have to say whole set up in killeen is absolute top quality, lads are sound, know their stuff with loads of visuals to explain it to the layman......

I'm really not sure where the negative feedback comes from for these guys.

Hacker111

big_drive wrote: »

Have foregolf started fitting for the taylormade R11s or RBZ yet? Wondering how the results have gone

I decided on a RBZ, tried a ZStar, new Cleveland Classic but RBZ had solid results and just felt more compact..... head in Classic was a little small and closed.

Mac Man

irishtoffee wrote: »

Had new shafts put im my irons and driver at Foregolf.Irons ended up a 1/4 inch shorter than standard and after 3 months of playing the worst golf of my life I went to Carton House with a mate to get fitted for Titleist AP2s.Turned out Foregolf fitted me completely wrong as I'm now using 1/2 inch longer than standard irons and playing off 6 handcap.I won't talk about how wrong the shaft they put in my driver was for me.I know they have got awards and things at Foregolf but I personally wouldn't recconend them.

Find this hard to believe. All business are ran with "customer satisfaction " the number one priority. You should have gone back with your clubs if as you state they were 1/4 inch short and I am 100% sure they would have corrected the " error" if there was one in the first place. 1/4 inch short from Fore Golf. 1/2 inch longer with Carton. I doubt Fore Golf would miss by 3/4 inch.

Kace

Mac Man wrote: »

Find this hard to believe. All business are ran with "customer satisfaction " the number one priority. You should have gone back with your clubs if as you state they were 1/4 inch short and I am 100% sure they would have corrected the " error" if there was one in the first place. 1/4 inch short from Fore Golf. 1/2 inch longer with Carton. I doubt Fore Golf would miss by 3/4 inch.

+1 - did you make some swing changes in between ?

I have been looking to change my setup recently as I was too upright. With the correct setup, I now think my clubs are too long for me (they were originally lengthened).

I wish I had worked this out before I went and re-gripped everything :mad:

AOH77A

Can someone confirm what type of balls you hit in Foregolf. Are they all the same make. This would be a minimum requirement. Preferably good high quality balls like pro v.
I would think you would need to be hitting the same ball in fitting as you normally play on the course, esecially for a driver fitting. To be sure the results in the fitting can be translated to course.

Hacker111

AOH77A wrote: »

Can someone confirm what type of balls you hit in Foregolf. Are they all the same make. This would be a minimum requirement. Preferably good high quality balls like pro v.
I would think you would need to be hitting the same ball in fitting as you normally play on the course, esecially for a driver fitting. To be sure the results in the fitting can be translated to course.

Why would u need to use a high quality ball?

BTW they are bog standard range balls.......

searay

They use Srixon range balls - but it's not a factor.

You start off hitting your own clubs and then switch to some examples they pick for you. You can see the difference in the ball flight yourself and by looking at the stats on the launch monitor screen. You can also disregard the shots you know weren't good or were bad swings.

When they narrowed down the shaft choices for me, I could clearly see the distance between a good hit with my driver and their choice was significant. The stats on the monitor confirmed it.

With my 3 wood, my shaft was too flexible and you could see it from the shots. When I hit it, it goes a mile but if I'm slightly off, it could go right or left. With the shafts they picked, I probably lost a few yards, but when I mis-hit, it deviated much less. I want a 3 wood I can rely on.

I'm waiting to get the clubs but I left there confident that their choices will give me more consistency.

AOH77A

You would'nt need high quality balls, you are correct. But for driver fitting it would help to be hitting the plays you normally play with.

AOH77A

searay wrote: »

They use Srixon range balls - but it's not a factor.

You start off hitting your own clubs and then switch to some examples they pick for you. You can see the difference in the ball flight yourself and by looking at the stats on the launch monitor screen. You can also disregard the shots you know weren't good or were bad swings.

When they narrowed down the shaft choices for me, I could clearly see the distance between a good hit with my driver and their choice was significant. The stats on the monitor confirmed it.

With my 3 wood, my shaft was too flexible and you could see it from the shots. When I hit it, it goes a mile but if I'm slightly off, it could go right or left. With the shafts they picked, I probably lost a few yards, but when I mis-hit, it deviated much less. I want a 3 wood I can rely on.

I'm waiting to get the clubs but I left there confident that their choices will give me more consistency.

For a driver fitting the ball will be a factor. Backspin will vary quite a bit between different balls.

Benny Cake

AOH77A wrote: »

For a driver fitting the ball will be a factor. Backspin will vary quite a bit between different balls.

Just bring 100 prov's of your own to the fitting... Simples!

Osgoodisgood

The balls are better than the junk they used in the last location but they still aren't great. I'm sure Derek is well aware that this is an issue that he'll need to solve if he's to keep his reputation for service of the highest quality.

searay

Benny Cake wrote: »

Just bring 100 prov's of your own to the fitting... Simples!

AOH77A must be quite a skilled golfer if he needs to have backspin on his drives.

Joined board yesterday and posted 3 pointed posts. TROLL ALERT.

golfnut1

searay wrote: »

Benny Cake wrote: »

Just bring 100 prov's of your own to the fitting... Simples!

AOH77A must be quite a skilled golfer if he needs to have backspin on his drives.

Joined board yesterday and posted 3 pointed posts. TROLL ALERT.

"Troll alert" why?
The guy was asking a valid question. If he is going to get fitted and pay top dollar. If he plays a certain ball he might want to be fitted with that ball. Seems very reasonable to me. Foregolf have a golf ball selector on there web site so if all fits in with what they preach too.
Cant understand why you would think this is a troll.

bustercherry

searay wrote: »

AOH77A must be quite a skilled golfer if he needs to have backspin on his drives.

Joined board yesterday and posted 3 pointed posts. TROLL ALERT.

First things first.

Do you have an opinion on everything and think you are more qualified to analyse every aspect of the game, better than a sky sports pundit for example?

If yes then, do you play average or mediocre golf? Have a handicap 16 or above but even struggle to play to that?

Thirdly, do you believe you actually are better than your handicap (convinced you have the potential to play to a low single digit handicap) and the golfing gods are conspiring against me. Such excuses are common place, "I'm currently rebuilding my swing (when in fairness you never had a swing worth fcuk)", "I'm using the wrong shafts, I need the Ron Jeremy XXXX Stiff shafts" or "I need to work on the mental part of my game".

Is you answer to every swing question posted, "Go get a lesson with a pro"?

Is your automatic reflex action to the phase "Custom Fitting" to respond with "Foregolf" (Criteria is: You must never have been to Foregolf but venomously defend their service, which you never have experienced)?

Do you only play with pro v's, because you believe they give you more control around the greens even though your scores/stats/handicap indicate your technique is not good enough to benefit from such a ball and in reality you would be better throwing your money into a fire?

Do you regularly quote stats that would put you in the top 10 on the European/PGA tour?

If you have answered yes to all of the above, you'll fit in well round here

Edit: I forgot this also - You also must be able to drive a ball on average 300yards

Hacker111

funny Buster...u must have a lot of time on your hands.....

Osgoodisgood

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

The balls are better than the junk they used in the last location but they still aren't great. I'm sure Derek is well aware that this is an issue that he'll need to solve if he's to keep his reputation for service of the highest quality.

At the risk of getting the thread back on track........................

I contacted Foregolf who told me that they've been working with Taylor Made to create a custom designed ball for their business which will be hopefully put into play in 2 weeks time.

So all's well that ends well.

golfnut1

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

The balls are better than the junk they used in the last location but they still aren't great. I'm sure Derek is well aware that this is an issue that he'll need to solve if he's to keep his reputation for service of the highest quality.

At the risk of getting the thread back on track........................

I contacted Foregolf who told me that they've been working with Taylor Made to create a custom designed ball for their business which will be hopefully put into play in 2 weeks time.

So all's well that ends well.

Since they basically share the same range as kileen castle let's hope they both use the new balls or someone's going to have a headache separating the new ones from the old ones!!!

Osgoodisgood

golfnut1 wrote: »

Since they basically share the same range as kileen castle let's hope they both use the new balls or someone's going to have a headache separating the new ones from the old ones!!!

Yes I wondered about that but that would be in the Not My Problem category I guess!

dwolf20

Could anyone give a ball park figure what it would cost at foregolf to get the following:

1) Fitting session for irons and driver
2) Existing irons (AP2s) reshafted to suit (4-PW)
3) New driver such as the R11 with shaft to suit

Thanks!

J6P

dwolf20 wrote: »

Could anyone give a ball park figure what it would cost at foregolf to get the following:

1) Fitting session for irons and driver
2) Existing irons (AP2s) reshafted to suit (4-PW)
3) New driver such as the R11 with shaft to suit

Thanks!

I would say €100 for fitting then €35/club for the irons. The R11s is 389 from Mcguirks so i reckon 450ish from Foregolf

brians947

When i got done i got irons re-shaftted and if i remember it was around the 30 euro mark. Recently got new Srixon driver that isn't sold in Europe. Was 325. Fitting session is 100 euro

dwolf20

Thanks!

SnowDrifts

Bit of advice needed guys- was due to have a driver fitting at foregolf next week but unfortunately, my whole game has gone to sh*t. Basically not confident in hitting anything at the moment.

So..would it be better to defer the fitting for a month and get a few lessons in the mean time or just go ahead with the fitting regardless?

searay

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Bit of advice needed guys- was due to have a driver fitting at foregolf next week but unfortunately, my whole game has gone to sh*t. Basically not confident in hitting anything at the moment.

So..would it be better to defer the fitting for a month and get a few lessons in the mean time or just go ahead with the fitting regardless?

You know the answer . Best to defer in my opinion. You need to be swinging consistently really. Defer it for a few weeks and get the lessons.

SnowDrifts

Yeah, think your right searay. Just a shame because 3 weeks ago when I made the booking, I was hitting the ball very well. Tis a frustrating game.

golfnut1

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Bit of advice needed guys- was due to have a driver fitting at foregolf next week but unfortunately, my whole game has gone to sh*t. Basically not confident in hitting anything at the moment.

So..would it be better to defer the fitting for a month and get a few lessons in the mean time or just go ahead with the fitting regardless?

I wouldn't worry about it. The difference between a good swing and a bad swing is so slight it won't matter.
Your swing speed is going to be the same no matter what way your swinging it and that is a huge factor.
What the guys should really be looking for is what exactly goes wrong when it goes bad if your not hitting it good you should have no problem demonstrating that.
I'd go ahead with it if I were you.