Is this the end for Tiger?
Yes – No?
#Tiger
Official Name: Deutsche Bank Championship 
Where: TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
When: September 3-6, 2010
Defending Champion: Steve Stricker (U.S.A)
The race for the 2010 FedEx cup is heating up and this week the top 100 remaining golfers will tee up in Boston to continue their quest to win golfs greatest pay day. Last week was exciting from start to finish, with Matt Kuchar producing a stunning shot in the play off to win The Barclays and become the leader in the FedEx cup. After this week the field for the BMW Championship will be cut to 70, so it is important that all players in the field produce some good golf in order to assure they progress further. As you can see below, Kuchar has a healthy lead, but Steve Stricker who is defending champion this week is easily within striking distance.
This tournament is also very important for other reasons for the American players, as it will be the last chance for them to impress Corey Pavin before he chooses his 4 captains picks for next months Ryder Cup. During the week Monty announced his captains picks for the Europeans, some of them were a little unexpected so it will be interesting to see which way Pavin will go and whether or not he will pick world number 1 Tiger Woods, who after a disappointing year, missed out on automatic qualification.
European Ryder Cup team: 
Lee Westwood (England)
Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland)
Martin Kaymer (Germany)
Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland)
Ian Poulter (England)
Ross Fisher (England)
Francesco Molinari (Italy)
Peter Hanson (Sweden)
Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain)
Luke Donald (England)
Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
Edoardo Molinari (Italy)
Lind Golfs Predicted winner: Steve Stricker
Steve Stricker is in great form at the moment, coming off a 3rd place finish last week and he is now sitting 2nd on the FedEx cup standings, not to mention he is the defending champion of the Deutche Bank Championship. He also has a terricic record in the FedEx cup playoff events, with eight top 10s in 13 events.
Lind Golfs Predicted Top Australian: Adam Scott
This was a hard choice, Adam has been very impressive of late, but so has Jason Day. The reason we decided to go with Scott was simply because he is playing well and is a past champion at TPC Boston. I think it is only a matter of time before Scott wins another USPGA event and given his form of late this could be his week. Don't be suprised if Day has a better week, but I am confident Adam Scott will be there abouts come Sunday.
Broadcast information
The Barclays will be shown Live on Fox Sports.
1st, 2nd & 3rd round – Saturday , Sunday & Monday:
5.00am – 8.00 am Fox Sports 1
4th round – Tuesday: 4.00am – 8.00 am Fox Sports 1
As part of our launch into the US market we sent drivers off to a number of well known golf bloggers around the world. 
Sean from the Ottawa Golf Blog in Canada reviewed our driver and after 5 rounds decided to take his TaylorMade R9 driver out of his bag and replace it with the Lind Golf Blackhawk 460!
You can read the full review here. Have you tried the Blackhawk 460 Driver? Why not arrange a demo today!
As you may have noticed Lind Golf has been going gangbusters lately in relation to launching new concepts to our range. Recently Lind Golf has added the laser marked putters and the MiBag panel upgrades to the range and now we have launched the Wedge Stamping Platform on our Website.

MiClub Wedge Stamping allows you to personalise your wedges by getting up to 5 characters of text stamped into the wedge and then having the stamping filled with your choice of colours. Lind Golf has decided to introduce this platform for 2 main reasons:
1) Lind Golf believes that wedge stamping was the next logical step with our brand, we want to give our customers as many customisation/personalisation options as possible. The wedge stamping allows our customers to further their personalisation ability by getting their desired text stamped into the wedges and filled with their choice of colour, allowing you to make MiClub uniquely your club!
2) Lind Golf wanted to make wedge personalisation more affordable for the consumer as it is a great concept but is often priced at outrageous levels by other golf manufacturers who provide similar offerings. Also as we are an Australian Business we want to make the concept available to the Australian market, as the current manufacturers offering the concept are American based and currently do not sell to people outside of the U.S.
Personalisation options include:
The wedge stamping platform is available in both our Signature Series and Milled wedges, so why not design your own personalised wedge today, after all its you who will be using them out on the course.
MiBag Panel Personalisation
In the newest initiative from Lind Golf, you will soon be able to give your Lind Golf golf bags personality by adding fun and witty personalisation panels to them. In addition to the current offering of being able to personalise your golf bag with custom text, you will also be able to choose a panel from an initial selection of 10 designs, all of which feature graphics that are amusing and jovial.
The panels will be available in every colour of bag and the panels are all replaceable, meaning you could have a panel for your social golf game and one for your serious golf competitions, or one for summer and one for winter, basically you can give your bag a personality that can be changed with the flick of a zip.
You can also give the golf bag as a gift with a personal message on the panel and then provide the recipient with an additional panel that is more appropriate to be displayed on the golf course in front of their buddies!
Lind Golf realises there are many personalities on the golf course, but there are only indifferent and undistinguished golf bags, but with the Lind Golf MiBag platform you can portray your own individual personality on your own individualised golf bag!
We have been allowing people to personalize their own golf clubs for over 3 years and we’ve been innovating as we grow and developing new and exciting ways of making the process more fun, interactive and engaging.
So many people ask us, why golf clubs? Do people really want “pink and purple” clubs… Do they really care if their name is on their bag or they can laser mark a driver? Well the answer is Yes. They do. And more so than ever, we believe it is important to keep innovating along this path. The USGA and R&A have made it very difficult to innovate based on performance, since they have restricted maximum driver head size and limited driver COR (the amount of spring in a driver face) as well as groove restrictions on wedges.
So we ask ourselves, if performance is more or less limited – how do we continue to innovate and be different? For the past few years we have forged our own path being pioneering the customization and personalization of golf equipment.
Until recently we felt somewhat alone – uncertain as to whether we are on the right track or not however in the last week I have received two e-mails which reassured me that we are entirely on the right track.
You might ask, why are we promoting our competitors, and what do we think of this?
We love it. We think this is one of the best things that could have happened to the customized golf club world – two big players are endorsing our model!
I’m expecting these concepts to create a lot of buzz. And what’s better for us than people searching for “create your own golf clubs” on Google? Hello! We’re here, and we’re happy to put our nearly 3 years of expertise at work to make clubs for you and deliver them to your doorstep – at up to 70% off the majors.
Thanks Callaway & Titleist for getting the word out
Super one-of-a-kindness…
We are excited to announce our latest feature – the ability to laser mark your driver. We are the first company in the world to offer this innovative concept on a golf club. Make your club one-of-a-kind by adding an initial, a custom icon or write your own message on the face of any Lind Golf driver.

At our factory a precision laser marks your icon or words onto the driver, we then build your club and ship it out to you. It’s that easy! In fact, the only hard part is choosing what to laser on to your club. The laser marking process does not affect the performance of the club whatsoever. We simply remove a nano-layer from the face of the driver when marking the face.
Laser marking is free until March 31st 2010. Learn more here.

What prompted me to write this post was a blog post on the “My Golf Spy” web site entitled “Are you brand washed?”. If you are thinking about buying our clubs, I highly recommend reading this article because it deconstructs the marketing hype that big brands use to give many golfers false hope.
I don’t usually like to comment on other brands or the equipment industry. I prefer to get on with the job at Lind Golf and let the big brands get on with theirs. In fact I endorse competition because it raises the bar for everyone and invokes innovation, and customers end up winning which is what is ultimately important if your goal is to succeed in business.
However, having said that, one of the emotions that Lind Golf invokes to new customers is that of the underdog, the “David” in David Vs Goliath. I mean, who do we think we are trying to compete in a multi billion dollar business dominated primarily by major brands, the top 5 of which in their own right are billion dollar businesses with significant market share. I guess the opportunity that existed for us was not one in the market, but instead, in the minds of the golfers who we seek to target with our excellent service, product, customisation and personalisation experience – and direct pricing.

Golfers have been brain washed into believing marketing hype around golf equipment. And of course this marketing works, and it will continue to work, however at the end of the day you can choose to save money or believe the hype because in reality your strokes will be dropped if you practice more and not if you buy the most expensive clubs.
Today’s golf clubs today are so similar in construction, design and performance that the slight variances which are marketed between brands are hardly noticeable to the average golfer. These technologies are tested on swing arms that are 100% consistent. Nobody’s golf swing is 100% consistent. Marketing conclusions are then drawn on these results.
The fact is whenever a brand has released a technology to increase distance (high COR/MOI and oversized drivers) or accuracy (milled wedges) the USGA and R&A have intervened my limiting these characteristics or by making them illegal, keeping the game of golf a game of skill.
So moving forward, where do I see the equipment business going? We see the technology stagnating relatively, and the performance improvements happening incrementally, not monumentally. The biggest feat in golf technology has been the transition from wood to metal wood then to large drivers, fairways and hybrids; drivers were limited at 460cc. For the time being I don’t see such monumental shifts occurring so soon (but I will never say never!). What we are doing is focusing on the buying experience and customisation – we are innovating differently, making golf equipment fun, and our customers are loving it.
Once a golfer plays their first purchase they almost ALWAYS buy again. In fact, 94% of customers who demo our clubs end up buying a set. The customisation experience and personalisation experience that we offer are unique but if we assume performance is equal, how else do you make yourself different? Yes, we are barking up a different tree but we are certain that all of our equipment performs within a range of +/- 5% of any other brand on the market. We’ll give you your money back if you think otherwise.
So what’s the bottom line? – seek value, get some lessons and practice more.