A First in Europe for the K Club, With Automated Ultrasonic Golf Club Cleaner
25/09/2007 09:05
PR Newswire
DUBLIN, Ireland, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Avanti Golf, Europe's premier supplier of ultrasonic golf club
cleaning machines, announces that its top of the range, fully automated
computer controlled Club-Cleaner 5000 is now a free feature at the K Club,
County Kildare, Ireland, home of the 2006 Ryder Cup and one of the World's
most prestigious golfing destinations.
Golf clubs provide almost every facility their members need,
except one - an easy way to thoroughly clean golf clubs after the round. Now
The K Club has taken the lead in what will become a trend across Europe by
offering their members free ultrasonic golf club cleaning. After every round
a member plays at the K Club, their clubs are taken from them and the heads
and grips are ultrasonically deep-cleaned before being returned.
The K Club invested in the Club-Cleaner 5000, an ultrasonic
golf club cleaning machine specially designed for the purpose by Avanti Golf,
based in Dublin Ireland, which thoroughly cleans a full set of clubs in only
3 minutes. Ultrasonic cleaning uses high-frequency sound waves to quickly and
efficiently remove dirt from club heads (including deep in the grooves) as
well as sweat, oils & other grime from the grips.
"The benefits to golfers are huge," says Franco De Bonis, Managing
Director of Avanti Golf. "Clean grooves on club heads deliver a better
contact surface for cleaner strikes and more control of spin, while cleaning
grips restores the original tackiness to the grip and also removes the grime
that harbors millions of potentially harmful bacteria."
The K Club chose the Club-Cleaner 5000 unit, supplied by the aptly named
"Ultrasonic Golf", Avanti Golf's regional partner for Eastern & Northern
Ireland because it is Europe's only fully automated ultrasonic golf club
cleaning machine. Although there are other ultrasonic cleaning machine
providers, the K Club wanted a machine with maximum efficiency and minimum
maintenance.
The Club-Cleaner 5000 has the ability to completely manage its
day-to-day operation. Including filling and maintaining water level and
temperature, adding specialist cleaning solution as needed and even
refreshing the water every thirty cleaning cycles to ensure that clubs are
always cleaned in fresh water. This means almost zero workload for golf club
staff versus any other ultrasonic club cleaning unit, which typically require
daily filling, emptying and storage.
"To have the K Club implement our equipment and especially to
be the first permanent installation in Europe is wonderful," says De Bonis.
"This is the only machine of its kind in the world and it confirms the
quality and effectiveness of our technology and backs up our belief in this
new and exciting sector. In a few years we believe our machines will be as
common place as the compressed air hoses are today. Yet it wasn't that long
ago when golfers had to rub their feet on brushes at the end of a round and
it was clubs like the K Club that took the lead in adding what was then an
extremely expensive new feature like compressed air cleaning bays."
Bill Donald, Director of Golf at the K Club is delighted with
their new service. "The K Club has always believed in driving golf forward
and ensuring that we are at the forefront of embracing innovations that
benefit our members and customers. When we saw how effectively ultrasonic
cleaning worked we knew that our members would be delighted and so we decided
to implement it."
About Avanti Golf
Avanti Golf is a manufacturer & supplier of specialist
ultrasonic golf club cleaning equipment. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Avanti
offers its products worldwide through a network of regional partners in each
country that provide local supply, knowledge and support. Founded in 2006,
the first year was spent on research and development and only in early 2007
did products begin shipping.
"Ultrasonic Golf" is Avanti Golf's first regional partner,
covering Ireland's Leinster & Ulster regions (Eastern and Northern regions
respectively). They are actively working with clubs within their regions and
are targeting to have ten permanently installed units by the end of 2007.
For additional information contact:
Avanti Golf: Geraldine De Bonis
Tel: +353-(0)1-825-7499
email: info@avanti-golf.com
website: http://www.avanti-golf.com
The K Club: Bill Donald
Tel: +353-(0)1-234-5678
email: billdonald@kclub.ie
website: http://www.kclub.ie
Ultrasonic Golf: Paul Collins
Tel: +353-(0)86-155-9496
email: ultrasonicgolf@eircom.net
website: http://www.ultrasonicgolf.com
Contact:
Geraldine De Bonis
Avanti Golf Ltd.
+353-(0)1-825-7499
+353-(0)1-258-6847
info@avanti-golf.com
http://www.avanti-golf.com
For additional information contact: Avanti Golf: Geraldine De Bonis, Tel: +353-(0)1-825-7499, email: info@avanti-golf.com; The K Club: Bill Donald, Tel: +353-(0)1-234-5678, email: billdonald@kclub.ie; Ultrasonic Golf: Paul Collins, Tel: +353-(0)86-155-9496, email: ultrasonicgolf@eircom.net; Contact: Geraldine De Bonis, Avanti Golf Ltd., +353-(0)1-825-7499, +353-(0)1-258-6847, info@avanti-golf.com