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[mike_beene]

in the Departures Magazine that came today is a nice article on Old Macdonald with a picture of Mr Doak.The one logo rule has been mocked. and ping even gets a nice turn of a putter grip!Some really nice pictures as well.Congrats!

[Tom_Doak]

Mike:

I got that magazine in the mail yesterday, and was kind of surprised by the picture.  I have had Ping irons for a long time, but NOT a ping putter as I appeared to be holding.  I don't remember exactly when the photo was taken, though, and I have played a lot of my golf with borrowed clubs over the past 2-3 years.

I really hate posing for pictures, unless I'm standing with my wife or my kids; I don't like being on that side of the camera.  Actually, that photo is better than most.

[mike_beene]

maybe Titleist payed them to put a ping putter in your hand?

[C. Squier]

maybe Titleist payed them to put a ping putter in your hand?

That's one of the funniest things I've read on the board.  Well played, I imagine Tom chuckled too.

[Tom_Doak]

Hey, you can mock my game all you went, but you should NOT mock my putting.

[Joel_Stewart]

TD.  You should break the mold and get an equipment contract.  If Justin Timberlake and teaching pros like Leadbetter and Butch Harmon have contracts, why not an architect?

[Sean Walsh]

Joel,

I can see the add now.  Get Tom on one of his wavy greens draining a fifty footer.  Or up and down from the green side bunker at 4 or 7 Barnbougle

"Only __insert product__ can tame a Tom Doak course."

[Phil_the_Author]

Courses could start advertising that they are a 10 on the Doak/Titleist scale...

[Tom_Doak]

TD.  You should break the mold and get an equipment contract.  If Justin Timberlake and teaching pros like Leadbetter and Butch Harmon have contracts, why not an architect?

Joel:

An equipment contract?  Jesus, until this past Christmas every club in my bag was ten years old.  And I don't think George Low is paying anybody to use his putter, if he's still alive.  [I actually met him on the practice green at Butler National during the Western, many moons ago.]

I always said that when I got to 50 I ought to try the Senior Tour, since all of those guys try architecture.  But, I don't think I've kept my game sharp enough to keep up with Freddie Couples.

[Michael Robin]

Mmmm, Driving distance and putting are not an issue Tom. Need to increase your GIR and you might give them a run.

[Marty Bonnar]

TD.  You should break the mold and get an equipment contract.  If Justin Timberlake and teaching pros like Leadbetter and Butch Harmon have contracts, why not an architect?

Joel:

An equipment contract?  Jesus, until this past Christmas every club in my bag was ten years old.  And I don't think George Low is paying anybody to use his putter, if he's still alive.  [I actually met him on the practice green at Butler National during the Western, many moons ago.]

I always said that when I got to 50 I ought to try the Senior Tour, since all of those guys try architecture.  But, I don't think I've kept my game sharp enough to keep up with Freddie Couples.

Tom,
I'd guess Joel meant something rather more in 'Associative Marketing'.

Something like:
"Got Drainage Issues? Try ALL-NEW, IMPROVED DOAK'S DRAINAGE DUCTS"
or
"When a Real Man has Dirt to Shift, DOAK DRIVES A 'DOZER."

 

There's bound to be loads more...

FBD.

[Carl Rogers]

I really hate posing for pictures, unless I'm standing with my wife or my kids; I don't like being on that side of the camera.  Actually, that photo is better than most.

Tom,
I have several good pictures of you and you and Brian Slawnik at the Bay of Dreams.  Some were posed and some were not posed.  I would never ever post them.  You had a Kapalua hat on.