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THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy, and while hitting the new Wilson Triton Driver.

(Writing from Palmetto Dunes Resort, on Hilton Head Island SC.)

EDITORS NOTE… BIG 3 Partner len Ziehm of Len Ziehmongolf.com and I held a group interview with Wilson Golf GM Tim Clark at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando Florida.

Clark deserves credit for taking all questions from both Len and I, in regards to the Wilson Triton Driver, and the issues Wilson had with the launch of the Winner of Driver vs Driver, the Wilson Triton Driver. With the USGA forcing Wilson to make extra minor changes to Triton to make the club conforming, and having most clubs and retail stores pull Triton off the shelves during the holiday season, Clark could have said many things to Len and I, but only off the record, he didn’t. Clark was a breath of fresh-air and told us what happened.

Wilson GM Tim Clark holds the Triton Driver.

Clark admits there were certain things that had to be kept confidential, and as a result, Wilson Golf did not ship Triton to the USGA for conformance testing as early as it could have.

The limited information I was able to receive from the USGA, was that Wilson Golf had finished filming the Driver vs Driver in mid-summer, and could have sent the Triton in earlier for review and the USGA like it does with any product sent in for conformance testing, keeps all things confidential. As of the PGA Show, Clark says that Triton is now back in clubs, and in retail stores, as the club at all degrees of loft is now conforming per the USGA.

Click here to hear the interview with Wilson GM Tim Clark, as he explains the process of getting the Triton Driver, and what happened with the USGA.

Clark says that Demo Day for Wilson Golf at the PGA Show was as busy as he has seen it, in his 20 years with the company, saying everyone wanted to hit the Triton.

Wilson Golf is not ruling out another reality type show called Iron vs Iron or Putter vs Putter. Clark says now that people know how the show works, and that the winner of Driver vs Driver, Eric Sillies was paid the $500,000. Any future contest will likely have not just a few hundred people entering the contests, but the final total of applicants could be well into the thousands.

Clark says that Wilson has already held discussions with The Golf Channel about another reality type contest show.

Clarked added that Wilson Staff player Kevin Streelman has put Triton in play on the PGA Tour this year, and that a few other tour players have added Wilson Clubs to their bag in 2017.

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