Sugarloaf Social Club dropping new custom putter

As a strategy to convey collectively their love for traditional golf gear, and to create one thing distinctive, Sugarloaf Social Club has paired up with Japan’s Makino Golf to provide a restricted version putter that can be obtainable March thirty first.

What is Sugarloaf Social Club?

Sugarloaf Social Club aka. SSC started as a easy thought amongst buddies, which originated like many nice and generally much less nice concepts in a gaggle chat with school buddies. The distinction maker was these buddies not solely shared a deep ardour for golf but in addition had an appreciation and nostalgia for a sure period of the sport, the fashion, and the gear. This chat morphed into an annual golf journey and from there an Instagram account.

It was then, in 2017 that Sugarloaf went from one thing enjoyable, producing small-run headcovers and different equipment to a full-time inventive company that has now labored with a few of golf’s largest and well-known manufacturers. This skill to design and create issues that enchantment to their tastes has made them successful with like-minded golfers.

What is Makino Golf?

Makino Golf is a boutique membership firm in Japan that focuses on conventional solid golf equipment together with blades, small cavity backs, wedges, and puters.

Makino’s skill to provide golf equipment that not solely carried out however appeared lovely helped drive Sugarloaf Social Club founder Ian Gilley to work with S. Nomura to create the restricted version putter.

“When the opportunity arose to make something with Makino, I had a clear idea of what my dream putter would look like,” Gilley stated. “Tri-sole Anser-style, with a site circle dot, and a deep oil-can finish with wonderful blue tones.”

“We wanted some fun Sugarloaf branding details that didn’t take away from the craftsmanship of the putter so we have our SSC Arrow on the bumper, ‘PLAY OR PERISH’ hidden on the neck, along with other subtle details on the sole and face.” he added, “S. Nomura had the wonderfully creative idea to top all this off with one of his three ‘Fly Girl’ marks holding our Sugarloaf Arrow in the cavity.”

With extra golfers methods to showcase their character with custom golf equipment and equipment, this restricted version putter is one other instance of golf creatives bringing cool concepts to life to share with others. When requested if this can be a one-off factor or a unbroken partnership, Gilley says, “If this run is a hit, we will no doubt do another design!”

Price, specs, and availability

The 21A1MM Sugarloaf Fly Girl Plumber’s Neck putters go on sale March thirty first at 8 pm Eastern at sugarloafsocialclub.com for $750. There will solely be 12 putters obtainable on the market by the location, with the remaining 8 of the 20 made being distributed by companions in Asia.

Each individually numbered putter is completed by hand with a deep oil can end, and comes with a custom leather-based Best Grip putter grip and real leather-based headcover made in Japan.

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Golf.com Editor

Ryan Barath is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s senior editor for gear. He has an in depth club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all ability ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Before becoming a member of the employees, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Experience Golf, in Toronto, Canada.