Roger Cleveland is returning to Cleveland Golf.
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I first met the legendary club stylist Roger Cleveland about seven years ago.
As a reporter of gears and junky, I had long had Cleveland in people’s ruting MT to meet, and I still remember my extreme nervousness on that day in the winter of 2018.
You know what they disappoint you about your heroes? In this case, the result was the opposite polar. Roger not only kept his hero’s status, but also became a loving friend – one of the relationships I have made on this missile that I will cherish forever.
My admiration for Roger was rooted in his talent: he designed what I think is the biggest wedge-588-and one I had played religious for more than two decades before I met him. There are four models whose DNA still lives in a stunning number of clubs you see on the shelves. Ping Anser and Anser 2, and Cleveland 588 and 485.
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When I got into this game in 1994, Cleveland was to ask what the titerist for golf balls is today. They dominated the market because 588, in particular, seemed to work for every kind of player. It was a clean, versatile design that allowed all players to hit a number of shootings around the greens. The club did not come in grinding or countless options because they were not needed.
Keep in mind that 588 was launched in 1988! The design lived and succeeded for 12 years before a successor (900) was introduced to the market. Think about this with today’s cadetce. Can you think of a modern day club that has not changed in a dozen years?
The list of players they had Wedges Cleveland Back in the day was crazy.
Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Fred Plesifts, Payne Stewart, David Toms, Ernie Els, Jose Marie Olazabal, Colin Montgomerie, David Duval, Lee Janzen, Nick Price, Corey Pavin, Jim Furyk and further. In 1996, Roger moved to Callaway, where he transformed the company’s wedge and iron program and his work landed on countless bags of other brands.
If you know the 588 model well, you will know that most of what you see on the shelves these days Roger’s work samples in the same way that musicians can try classic tunes from the 70s or 1980s. I like that this happens; Next to Roger’s greatness than anything else. Sometimes the models are as good as they stand in the test of time.
Like the reputation of this great man.
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RC, as I call it, took me more or less under his arm from the first meeting.
He gave me his number. We spoke periodically if I had a question. He was always available for interviews and quotes for an article. When I joined Callaway, he cared for me in almost a paternal way. He would always want to know how I was adapting to the trip, be on tour, etc. I loved our conversations and checking each other if things were good or bad. He was always the base at home for me.
