The 2023 AGCP RT – The Dana Conference
In Columbus, GA See Columbus
This is going to be a great one.
If you plan to attend or hope to attend, or if you want to register for Zoom (Zoom is generic for video classes, it may not be Zoom) classes of the event live as it happens please register. For now this is to get an idea of how many will be registering and no payment is needed at this time. Payment will be required as soon as we know for sure we will have the RT. – Thank
Note: All plan are subject to change
Current plans are as follows
On Monday or Tuesday we will have a Clinic at one of the local golf courses on putting, chipping and pitching. The clinic will be conducted by Roy Nix & Mike McFadden.
We will have classes on Wednesday & Thursday at the Perfect Place in Columbus, Georgia
Instructors will be:
- Tom Wishon – Tom Wishon will answer any questions, comments and share his knowledge and experience from over 40 years in the business on any topics related to head design, shaft design, materials, fitting technology, or anything you have ever wondered about in the equipment side of the game.
- Mike McFadden
- Roy Nix – Roy Nix will walk you through his fitting technique for watching the swing during warm up to get an idea of what in the swing can use some corrective measures that might can be brought about by how his clubs are made. MOI, Length, etc.
- Keith Chatham
- Dave Kenzie
- Jerry Lovell
- Dan Burnfield
- Bob Uebelhor
Suggested Topics will be: Golf Swing and Fitting, How to fit golf clubs to a golfer’s kinetic sequence, Shop training on various pieces of equipment you will use in your shop. Profiling golf shafts, basic custom grinding techniques, What is MOI and why use it in your builds. Other subjects will be listed in detail as we organize nearer to the event.
Please note that addition classes may be added and classes may be modified based on instructors.
Hotels: We will have a designated AGCP Hotel we recommend where we will reserve the conference room for AGCP members to use at night. There are a number of AGCP traditions you can ask members about on our forum.
Meals: We will provide donuts and breakfast biscuits, etc. in the mornings and we provide coffee, water and iced tea throughout the day. Lunches are boxed lunches or catered lunches usually. We will have one AGCP Dinner meal on Monday night or Tuesday night and all other evening meals are up to you. We have many restaurants of all kinds from great local BBQ and local restaurants to most chain restaurants.
We will announce more details as we confirm them. Usually on the AGCP email forum. Below are some of the classes we have confirmed. Details might change but basically these are what you can expect.
Fundamentals of Clubmaking Class – Keith Chatham & Dave Kenzie
Day & Time To Be Determined
- Measure and Record the specifications of a set of clubs.
– Length Measurement
– Frequency Measurements
– Lie Angle Measurements
– MOI Measurements
– Swing Weight Measurements
– maybe more, to be determined - Grip removal to save or reuse grips
- Shorten or Extend clubs
- Adjusting MOI or Swing Weight using – lead tape – powder and cork down the shafts – hot melt – tip weights – hosel weights
- Loft and Lie Adjustments
- Disassembling & Assembling clubs for reshafting, rebuilding, etc.
- How to install taper tip shafts in parallel hosels
- Ferrule turning
- BMT shaft matching explanation
- and more
Fitting with Kinetic Sequence based on how changes to the club can change how we swing. – Roy Nix
Day & Time TBD
Using video and some live participants a walk through the golf swing looking at the kinetic sequence and how to improve the golf swing by changing the club. What does weight do? What does length do? What does head design do? What does shaft profile do?
How to custom fit clubs to improve and change the swing for the better to allow the customer to hit the ball to the best of his or her ability by putting the right tools in their hands.
A basic class in club head grinding – Jerry Lovel
Day and time TBD
Jerry will walk you through a grinding course and show you how to modify heads and improve your income by offering custom grinding.
All about custom putters and fitting custom putters – Bob Uebelhor
Day and Time TBD
Bob will show how the balance of a putter can affect the face angle at impact and how to fit and build a custom putter with the best face angle balance for your customers.
Club Optimization & Profiling shafts – Dan Burnfield
Day and Time TBD
Taking Club Optimization to The Next Level – In the last round table we learned how to use Optivibe weights to optimize a driver. In this class we will learn how to optimize a set of irons so that we not only match the MOI of the clubs but also the swingweight. This produces a set of irons that produces superior feel as well as swing characteristics. We will talk just a tad about physics but will not use any math above and beyond basic high school math.
Profiling Shafts – In this class we will learn how and why I profile shafts using 4 different methods. (The Auditor Shaft Profiler, Golfsmith Reference Frequency Analyzer, The Russ Ryden Machine, and my digital deflection board). The latter version is very experimental at this point. This will build on part on John Schiavone’s past presentations on frequency vs EI so if you have the time and inclination brush up on that presentation. I will try and talk about why I prefer my method of using Russ Ryden’s machine and the concept of a spring constant vs EI.