About Us
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Derek
- Owner
- Club Fitter
- Club Builder
- Equipment Editor for Golf Digest
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Dave
- Friend
- Club Fitter
- Club Builder
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Don
- Father
- Club Builder
- Club Repair
- Workshop
- Tour Truck Driver
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Christine
- Mum
- Reception
- Derek & Dave's Diary
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Jill
- Sister
- Accounts
- Marketing
This is the story of ForeGolf. In 1997, a young fresh faced Derek opened a golf shop in Naas Co Kildare. During a chance conversation at The Czech Open he talked himself onboard the custom fitting tour trucks. This inspired him. So, armed with clubmaking courses and stints to Golfsmith UK, PING and Callaway in USA, he returned to the European Tour. But this time it was as a club builder on the Cleveland Tour Van. Then Dave Williams was stolen from Cleveland Golf and brought home to join the family. We built our own tour truck; the only independent tour truck providing all the brands based at Red Lane Golf Centre nestled between Naas and Newbridge in Co Kildare.
We've been doing this a long time. If you're looking for mass produced clubs built by somebody in a huge factory, go see someone else. But if you want clubs that are built by expert Clubmakers, guaranteed to perform - then come see us.
We always wanted people to understand why our clubs performed so well, it's not because we custom fit them but because we built them. People expect to see a huge showroom full of clubs, but we're not a golf shop. We have a ClubRoom where we put together components to figure out what suits you and a WorkShop where we build that club for you.
Customers always wanted to visit the workshop but it's a building environment and we've a schedule to keep on track, now you can see, hear but not quite touch the clubs being hand built right in front of you. We moved the whole show over to Killeen Castle Golf Club, our new home in Co Meath.
Come see where the hardest working clubmakers make clubs that outperform everybody.
AWARDS
2010 G.C.A. World Clubmaker of the Year
2008 G.C.A. Award of Excellence in recognition of outstanding services to golf
2007 G.C.A. European Clubmaker of the Year
2005 G.C.A. Irish Clubmaker of the Year
2003 G.C.A. European Clubmaker of the Year
Ping Anser Gold Putter Award, for outstanding services to Custom Golf
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
WHAT THE PRESS SAY
Golf Digest Ireland Magazine – Equipment Articles
Irish Times 13 July 2010
Total Golf 28 June 2010
Sunday Independent 24 January 2010
Irish Independent 20 January 2010
Leinster Leader 20 January 2010
Times Magazine 23 March 2008
Irish Independent 5 Sep 2007
Irish Independent 29 August 2007
Irish Independent 22 July 2006
Irish Independent 9 August 2006
Magill Magazine April 2006
The Irish Times 19 April 2005
Golf Digest May 2005
