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Welcome to the private equity world......don’t pay people and never have inventory on the books.

 

Or welcome to the pretty much anything world....

 

I've seen probably 1000 threads here over the years where guys openly crap on middle men like the "big box" stores, they refuse to buy there because some college kid had the gall to not know about some tour issue club or model coming out 2 years from now. Online sellers have also made a big dent

 

Nobody wants to carry inventory. OEMs don't because it's a liability, Big box distributors want to cut back because their business is being attacked by online vendors and discounting policies. Not to mention there's just less of them now due to bankruptcies

 

But the consumer won't pay more for the convenience of inventory. They just don't realize that they are making that decision.

 

This is what happens when you put distributors out of business, because OEMs won't stock and even if they want to they can't forecast properly.

 

This is a side effect in many markets. Buy online and take a chance it's what you want....or wait a long time for your order. It's the same thing at places like Home Depot or Best Buy now. They barely keep anything in stores

 

If only these distributors could do a little more, like installing grips, shafts, lie and loft .... that would be something different.

Instead of just having std stock and unprepared employees.

 

As a manufacturer why having a store just mak8ng money for doing nothing? I prefer having my own channel.

Even sometimes damaging your brand for not correctly knowing how to handle or recommend your product. For too long these malpractices generated money, things are changing.

 

Know if you have a store like club champion as example, it’s a different story. They do work

 

Golftown does all of those things and they had to close several stores last year and nearly went bankrupt

 

The golftown near me is fantastic. They do fittings, club work, etc

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I ordered my 790's on March 16th; called this morning and was told "production opened on these this morning and should have them by next Wednesday".

 

Hope they do but I've been given the run around on when mine will ship. I ordered 730 irons with a 790 4 iron 3 weeks ago. I was first told they would ship early last week, then told early this week. Now it is end of next week or early following week...

 

Might not be a bad thing though, giving me time to second guess playing the season with blades

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In Taylormade's defense they have been doing very well with the M3/M4 release and everything after up until this point. If you think May is bad, a custom order Atmos 5 stiff flex is B/O until August 2019. Yes 2019 is what the system says.

 

Also my local shop has a good amount of the Hi-Toe's just sitting there. DSG seems to have them in stock. DRRicks, i suppose some shop near by might have some on hand and might do an inventory swap with you.

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I think the Hi Toe Wedges are out until June according to their website ?

 

I have one but instead of going through reshafting was going to just sell and order a new one with a different shaft. Guess im going the reshafting route.

 

Kind of in the same boat. I have a project X 5.5 in my 58 and not a 100% sure about it yet. What shaft do you have in your hi-toe?

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I think the Hi Toe Wedges are out until June according to their website ?

 

I have one but instead of going through reshafting was going to just sell and order a new one with a different shaft. Guess im going the reshafting route.

 

Kind of in the same boat. I have a project X 5.5 in my 58 and not a 100% sure about it yet. What shaft do you have in your hi-toe?

Kbs tour 120 Stiff. Not even sure why I ordered it with that.. Must have been a busy day
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I customized a set of P730's on their site and it has a ship date of 08/28/2019!!!

 

That can't be right I would think.

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I customized a set of P730's on their site and it has a ship date of 08/28/2019!!!

 

That can't be right I would think.

 

It's possible. On the retail side, our ordering portal is showing that the P730 is "sold out". That's unusual. Usually it will have a "available" date, even if it's months out...like right now lots of metal woods and irons are showing June availability.

But P730 is just not available to even place an order, period.

 

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I customized a set of P730's on their site and it has a ship date of 08/28/2019!!!

 

That can't be right I would think.

 

It's possible. On the retail side, our ordering portal is showing that the P730 is "sold out". That's unusual. Usually it will have a "available" date, even if it's months out...like right now lots of metal woods and irons are showing June availability.

But P730 is just not available to even place an order, period.

 

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Looks like they don't have 3 irons in stock so that's prob what's happening

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I customized a set of P730's on their site and it has a ship date of 08/28/2019!!!

 

That can't be right I would think.

 

It's possible. On the retail side, our ordering portal is showing that the P730 is "sold out". That's unusual. Usually it will have a "available" date, even if it's months out...like right now lots of metal woods and irons are showing June availability.

But P730 is just not available to even place an order, period.

 

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Looks like they don't have 3 irons in stock so that's prob what's happening

 

It's not just 3 irons.

 

Looks like right now all that's available are "stock" 8 and 9 irons in X flex only, and PW in regular flex.

 

Again, this is stock configuration. Custom order builder shows everything backordered through at least May.

 

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Funny that my son ordered 730s in 6-P 1/2 in short 1 degree flat and they showed up in less than 2 weeks. His were ordered couple months ago, but they did arrive in less than 2 weeks as stated above. Shop owner was even surprised. Plus he got his with Px 6.0s!

 

I ordered 730’s on 3/7, they are suppose to ship end of this coming week so been like a month. I guess they are waiting on some heads to come in

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Funny that my son ordered 730s in 6-P 1/2 in short 1 degree flat and they showed up in less than 2 weeks. His were ordered couple months ago, but they did arrive in less than 2 weeks as stated above. Shop owner was even surprised. Plus he got his with Px 6.0s!

 

I ordered 730’s on 3/7, they are suppose to ship end of this coming week so been like a month. I guess they are waiting on some heads to come in

 

Sweet sticks for sure. Definitely a “blade”!!

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Was just going to put in an order for a bunch of TM equipment through their online process. The P750 4 Iron, P730 irons, and Hi Toe are all backordered until June! For those keeping track, it’s still MARCH. The only thing available immediately are the MG wedges.

 

How is it possible to mismanage inventory that poorly heading into a limited season sport as a manufacturer? Insane.

 

Not great but the shop I ordered 718 AP2s from the other day said TM UK are in a mess due to the split from Adidas...moved warehouses, all new emails etc etc. It may explain the lead time for orders??

 

P.s. given your sig I’m not sure I’d bother ordering lol

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Was just going to put in an order for a bunch of TM equipment through their online process. The P750 4 Iron, P730 irons, and Hi Toe are all backordered until June! For those keeping track, it's still MARCH. The only thing available immediately are the MG wedges.

 

How is it possible to mismanage inventory that poorly heading into a limited season sport as a manufacturer? Insane.

I ordered a set of the 790's on December 28th...and i still don't have them...
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Was just going to put in an order for a bunch of TM equipment through their online process. The P750 4 Iron, P730 irons, and Hi Toe are all backordered until June! For those keeping track, it's still MARCH. The only thing available immediately are the MG wedges.

 

How is it possible to mismanage inventory that poorly heading into a limited season sport as a manufacturer? Insane.

I ordered a set of the 790's on December 28th...and i still don't have them...

 

who did you order through?

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Was just going to put in an order for a bunch of TM equipment through their online process. The P750 4 Iron, P730 irons, and Hi Toe are all backordered until June! For those keeping track, it's still MARCH. The only thing available immediately are the MG wedges.

 

How is it possible to mismanage inventory that poorly heading into a limited season sport as a manufacturer? Insane.

I ordered a set of the 790's on December 28th...and i still don't have them...

 

who did you order through?

I got fitted at Loft Golf Performance, which is the company at PGA National. They put the order through for me.
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Ordered my udi on March 30. Still says it is being processed.

 

Said before it was a shipping date of April 7. So we will see

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The custom build tab on TM website will give you estimated dates due to backorder items ( heads / shafts / grips )

Tmagdirect ( dealer order site ) will show the same info for backorder on same items.

But the TM fitters that do all the on site demo days have the most up to date info on the iPads.

There is a report generated internally that shows when those backordered items will be coming in.

This report would be used specifically for all "custom" build order.

 

In regards to P730 - 9 irons heads are out till 5/7/18

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I ordered on the web site today.

 

790 4-5

770 6-7

750 8-9-pw

 

Everything estimated to ship within 10 days. Except the 750's. 6-11.

 

So I called. Was told the only issue was the 8 iron in 750. Changed my order to make 770 8 iron. Placed and still said the 6-11 on the 750's

 

 

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