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Steve_Roths

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Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« on: September 14, 2004, 03:17:49 PM »
I just noticed on GolfWorld's website that they have the rankings of the best pro shops in the country.  What are your favorites and why?

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.golfdigest.com/equipment/industrynews/index.ssf?/equipment/industrynews/100bestprivate.html


My favorites are Pine Valley and Dunes Club.  Super small and have just what you need.  Nothing more nothing less.
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Brian_Gracely

Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2004, 03:47:16 PM »
ProShops just haven't been the same since Walter Hagen moved out of the old chicken coop at Oakland Hills.

Glad to see Hillandale on the list....great place to find and demo clubs.

Best I've experienced isn't on the list....thank goodness.
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Jason Tetterton

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2004, 03:52:00 PM »
Palmetto Club - Aiken, SC....just golf...the shirts are still in the plastic...The head Pro is great; a real gentlemen. a pleasure to play the facility and a chance to step back in time.  
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George_Bahto

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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2004, 07:24:42 PM »
I like Blind Brook's - no one there - members just sign
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Bill Gayne

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2004, 07:30:21 PM »
When heading south on I-95, I always stop at Megcor in Lumberton, North Carolina. Huge selection of clubs and shoes at discount prices. My favorite off-course shop.
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Lloyd_Cole

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2004, 10:39:58 PM »
Portmarnock - my Dad and I arrived for a game he'd set up early in the morning, the pro shop was just opening. We offered to pay our green fees and were told that we could pay when we were finished..
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Bob_Huntley

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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2004, 11:37:44 PM »
Cypress Point.... They have more stuff that fascinates in in 200-300sq.ft., than any shop in the country.
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2004, 11:40:38 PM »
Baltusrol
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Mike_Sweeney

Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2004, 07:26:25 AM »
Quote from: Bob_Huntley on September 14, 2004, 11:37:44 PM
Cypress Point.... They have more stuff that fascinates in in 200-300sq.ft., than any shop in the country.

I really do agree with that and I know one friend here who could wipe that place out !
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Steve Lapper

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2004, 07:54:33 AM »
This is a question best suited for Dan "the shopping man" Taylor!

Dan, chime right in!
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Donnie Beck

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2004, 08:06:43 AM »
I kinda liked Friars Head's
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James Edwards

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« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2004, 08:16:16 AM »
Yes, agreed with Bob, CPC is a gem and the staff are just great with it - cant do enough for you sort of thing!
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DTaylor18

Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2004, 08:51:01 AM »
Steve,
 
Clearly my support of the economy is well supported by my fellow GCAers !  ;D
 

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Bruce Katona

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2004, 09:09:56 AM »
In what I would consider the Resort catagory. I would nominate the Paiute Resort Courses Clubhouse in Las Vegas.  Just about the best I have seen on this side, well merchandised, well designed.

On the public side, Tobacco Road.  They get a great bang for their buck with their small building.
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Jim Franklin

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« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2004, 09:44:58 AM »
Dan -

Who has the cell phone on the golf course? ;D
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Mr Hurricane

Michael Moore

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« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2004, 09:49:12 AM »
More importantly, what about the three chaps whose potential shirt logos are unfortunately obscured?

Are they all properly logoed - up?

Need I ask about Dan Taylor?
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Steve Lapper

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2004, 10:57:25 AM »
Quote from: Michael Moore on September 15, 2004, 09:49:12 AM
More importantly, what about the three chaps whose potential shirt logos are unfortunately obscured?

Are they all properly logoed - up?

Need I ask about Dan Taylor?


Ohhhhh...Dan..


Dan...you can mount a better defense than that! Doesn't Peter, et.al. have incriminating pix of you in a pro shop somewhere?


You are getting a "bad" rap! Better question is who's logo's have no words on them!!
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W.H. Cosgrove

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2004, 12:42:37 PM »
I'm a reactionary.....put me in the category of loving understated Pro Shops like CPC and PV.  

I figure any pro shop where you expect to fitted by a tailor is overblown and over done.  Great for your ego though!
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CHC1948

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« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2004, 02:36:42 PM »
seminole and grandfather
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Steve_Roths

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2004, 03:08:11 PM »
What do Seminole and Friars Head's pro shops look like?  Big/small etc?
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Jim Franklin

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2004, 03:13:08 PM »
Friar's Head's is in an old house on the first floor. It is very small and doubles as a lockerroom. There is a great model of what the clubhouse will eventually look like.

Seminole's is in their existing clubhouse and is medium to small in size, but nicely stocked. Very traditional looking.

CPC is so cool because it is tiny and you walk out the door and BOOM the first tee. Awesome stuff!
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A.G._Crockett

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2004, 03:16:07 PM »
Quote from: Brian_Gracely on September 14, 2004, 03:47:16 PM
ProShops just haven't been the same since Walter Hagen moved out of the old chicken coop at Oakland Hills.

Glad to see Hillandale on the list....great place to find and demo clubs.

Best I've experienced isn't on the list....thank goodness.

Brian,
I grew up on Club Blvd., about six blocks from Hillandale, and my parents and my wife's mom still live on Club.  We we roll into town from Georgia, it is never more that a couple of hours before I'm sifting through the used clubs in the Hillandale pro shop.  Wonderful, wonderful place.

I will say, though, that I liked it even better years ago before they dressed it up a bit.  They used to have barrels filled with used clubs; it was like a treasure hunt, and tremendous prices.  Now, of course, everything is in display racks, and the prices are pretty much standardized.  Still the absolute best I've ever seen for equipment at an on-course shop.
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Jim Sweeney

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Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2004, 04:09:12 PM »
I was struck by the shop at Summerset Hills about a dozen years ago. Set in an old garage or perhaps a small barn, apart from the clubhouse but adjacent to the first tee. So understated we couldn't belive that this was the shop for such a prestigeous club. But that was exactly my impression of the whole day- the course and the clubhouse as well. Definitely a place (at the time) which made the statement, "this is a place where golf is played. No need for putting on aires here." I hope I have the chance to get back and see if it is still that way today.

Others shps similar in nature: Camargo, Crystal Downs ( at least before the new clubhouse, which I haven't seen), and Fairfield in Connecticut.
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TEPaul

Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2004, 07:34:31 PM »
My favorite pro shop? I'd have to say Muirfield because they don't have one and I never actually noticed that until someone told me later!  ;)

Does Muirfield even have a pro?

I guess it's a good thing I didn't have the inclination to buy something at Muirfield because if I'd had that inclination when I was there, and I found out there was no pro shop---who knows, I might've actually stole something!   ;)

Matter of fact, the next time I go back there I'm definitely going to "borrow" those original architectural drawings in the lockerroom by Colt and other equally cool old architects when no one's looking. If they catch me and ask me what I'm doing I'll tell them with a straight face I'm just doing some really good architectural research on their course and I'm even doing it pro bono and that they should thank me for it!
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TEPaul

Re:Pro Shops - Your Favorites
« Reply #24 on: September 15, 2004, 08:00:29 PM »
redanman:

If you were me would you actually seek out the "Secretary" of a place like Muirfield? My God man, if a guy like me did that the chances are better than not he'd throw me out of the golf club immediately, probably even out of the town of Gullanne and maybe out of Scotland altogether!
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