Scratch Golf - beautiful new custom made persimmons

[Addington_Arnie]

Its really exciting to see new and old faces producing what promise to be quality new persimmon woods. I know a lot of people hold Scratch golf in high esteem and I believe that Ari (CEO) runs his own classic club / hickory outings. So check out the pics below and the quotes from Ari that I copied from another site.

People have been asking if Scratch was ever going to make drivers. While we are not planning to ever make a metal driver or fairway woods we decided to make a very small Limited run of 10 Hand Made Scratch SG10 Deep Face Persimmon drivers. These are made by hand by John Powell of Joe Powell golf and are just absolutely stunning. The face is 2" deep very similar to the legendary MacGregor M09 LFF or George Bayer DFD. The face has a very unique White/Green/White “Eye-O-Matic” type insert. The specs are 43.5", 11* loft, 1* open, 56* lie with a Dynamic Gold S300 shaft and Scratch PURE grip. These 10 Limited drivers are for sale for $350. We can also make a custom Hand Made Persimmon driver in ANY custom specs that you want. We have many stain colors and inserts available. We also have 3 different face depths available. Standard, Mid and the Deep Face head which is what these Limited drivers are made from. The custom drivers are $400 each. Anyone that is interested email me at ari_techner@scratchgolf.com and I will get you taken care of.

I honestly do not expect us to get into metal woods. It is just such a different segment of the market and you really need deep pockets to pay Tour Pros to pay the driver to get a good amount of players using it so you can get public acceptance of the product. That pay for play is not a game that we want to get into with these bigger companies so a metal wood just does not make sense for us to do. We also like to stick to things that can be made by hand and that we could make in our shop. This was more for fun than anything else. You never know what the future may hold but I would not expect a Scratch metal driver anytime soon.

They are about 210cc. They headweight can be whatever you want it to be on the customs. You can name all your specs exactly. Any length, lie, loft, face angle, headweight or swingweight, shaft, grip face progression, bulge and roll we also have numerous stain colors available and about 20 different face insert options.

Cheers, Arnie

[Addington_Arnie]

Anyone fancy clubbing together to see if we can approach Ari/John Powell to a produce a few “Lag spec” versions? Or perhaps Lag might want to approach Ari to see if you can produce a John Erikson custom via John Powell that we could buy?

Cheers, Arnie

[Hot_Soup]

Addington Arnie,

I am in the process of getting a new driver from John and have already spoken to him about that possibility. However, John told me that the flattest lie that he can go with normal manufacturing techniques is 52* (standard lie for his drivers is 54*). Hope this helps. I will post pics when I get mine (which apparently will be a while).

Best regards,

Soup

[lagpressure]

Those sure look nice…

Encouraging to see a few getting back into production.

[freddiec]

Thats an awesome looking persimmon driver. I’m so tempted, but I’ve been promoted to chief bottle washer and assistant diaper changer, the funds are funnelling elsewhere right now. Luckily I got some nice Wood Bros to play, but under other circumstances I’d pick one up in a heartbeat.

[eagle]

Here’s a nice clip showing Ralph interviewing Ari,owner of scratch Golf, at the PGA golf show in Orlando. Don White, the purported Michelangelo of grinding, and maker of Twomaster’s clubs, is in the background.

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