Fenwick Elliott Mallets

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News Archive

This page contains some older news that has previous appeared on our news page.

2006 News

New General Manager

Bryan Ewart-Searle has joined Fenwick Elliott Mallets as General Manager. His key roles will be to see the Series 4 into full production, and to make it available to buyers around the world.

20th September 2006

Yet another win, and Latest Production News

Tim Murphy has added to his New South Wales Open Doubles win by also claiming the Singles with his Series 4.

Meanwhile, our R&D house is going to cut another tool for the purpose of getting a few heads into the hands of those waiting for short run replacements. These should be out by mid to late September. We are taking the opportunity to reduce the head width by about 10%, to 58mm.

22nd August 2006

Adelaide Stuff

The next ACPG session has been fixed for Sunday 17th September 2006; see ACPG page

27th August 2006

Another win, and Production News

Congratulations to Tim Murphy, who has used his Series 4 to win the New South Wales Open Doubles with Stephen Richards. He was using a rebuild from the short production run, with the suspect shot filler replaced by the new filament specification - as anticipated, the new spec has fixed the problem.

We are pushing hard to get the full production line up and running; this is particularly urgent since we had a short run failure in the UK this week, showing that the short run problem is capable of manifesting itself after quite a bit of use. The production facility has started producing production samples of the head chassis for checking by our R&D house, and of course lawn testing by us. To save time (and in particular to get replacement heads into the hands of the short production run orderers as soon as possible) the first few chassis that they produce will be weighted and finished in Sydney.

We will get these replacement heads out as soon as we possibly can. One small silver lining on the short run cloud is that people will be able, if they want, to let us know on the basis of their experience if they want to alter their weight specification.

Also on the agenda is a modification to the end pieces that fit into the top of the shafts. We think these are too brittle, and players who have been tapping their mallets upside on a hard surface whilst they contemplate their next triple may have been cracking them. If you are a user and would like a replacement, let us know; the replacements should be available soon.

22nd August 2006

Series 4 Glitch

There has been a problem - now fixed - with a few of the short production run Series 4 Heads. See note. Replacements will go out as soon as we get the full production run through.

24th July 2006

Site Update

If you have visited this site before, you will notice some changes. That probably means a new and different collection of broken links etc; these will hopefully be ironed out over the coming weeks.

14th June 2006

Series 4 in Short Run Production

The first short production run of Series 4 heads has arrived, and the first few have gone out to orderers.
The rest of this Australian-made run is due out shortly, and production will then switch to SE Asia.

See the Prices page for ordering information.

25th May 2006

More Series 4 wins

There are currently two Series 4 prototypes in action. I took one to its first victory over a minus handicap player (Dean Patterson) in Whyalla at the end of March, and Harley Watts used the other to win 10 of his 12 games in the Australian Men's Singles Championship this week in Adelaide (being edged out in a semi-final by a spectacular triple from nowhere by Peter Landrebe).

RJFE, 5th April 2006

First Series 4 Win

I am happy to be able to say that a prototype series 4 head took its maiden win, in the doubles at Victor Harbor, in my hands, partnering Jim Curtis. Another prototype is now in the hands of Harley Watts, who has used it in team practice with the Australian team, but he has yet to use it in a match.

RJFE, 16th March 2006

First Series 4 Head now in Lawn Testing

The first pre-production prototype of the graphite/tungsten head has arrived, and is in lawn testing .

16th February 2006

The Victorian Open - a personal note

A number of people have asked how I got on in the Victorian Open (where I should not really have been, bearing in mind the limited stage of my game, but I was encouraged to enter by some friends and by having done reasonably OK at the NSW Open a little while ago). The answer is "awful": I did not win a single game, and it was pointed out to me afterwards that I had been lifting my head during many of the less impressive shots. Which all goes to show that, even with a tolerant mallet, you need to be able to play well if you want to win. Happily, Kevin Beard was in my block, effortlessly winning every one of his block games with a Fenwick Elliott shaft fitted to his elegant head, so I know it was the nut on the end of my shaft that was the problem.

2nd January 2006

2005 News

A new head

Development is now well underway on a new composite head; preview some CAD images on the heads page .

21st December 2005

A Deal with Wood Mallets

A number of people have asked about the price of Fenwick Elliott Mallets: is there a cheaper way to go? There is now we have made arrangemeents with Wood Mallets Limited to supply heads suitable for Fenwick Elliott shafts for AU$100 each; see the heads page .

More wins

Fenwick Elliott Mallets have been continuing to win tournaments. Recent successes include Mount Gambier and Quarry Hill (in the hands of Trish Devlin), North Adelaide Games Invitation Open - 2nd Block (Fenwick Elliott shaft in RPM Millenium head, in the hands of Andrew Usborne), North Adelaide Swiss Singles Division 2 (in the hands of Robert Fenwick Elliott) and Glenelg Handicap Doubles (in the hands of Gavin Bow). It is not only experienced players who are doing well; within 2 months of taking up golf croquet, Paula Gardiner has got her handicap down to 7, with the aid of a FEM prototype shaft and a FEM head.

28th November 2005

First Production Run has Arrived

The first production run of 50 of the new graphite shafts has arrived, and is available for sale.

26th October 2005

More Fenwick Elliott Mallet wins

Harley Watts was easy winner of the South Australian Open last weekend, winning all 5 of his games and successfully completing a triple peel in 4 of them. Congratulations also to Trish Devlin, who has used her new Fenwick Elliott mallet for its maiden triple peel at the Charlton tournament at the same time.

30th August 2005

A Fenwick Elliott Mallet win

Harley Watts has won the 2005 CB Sharpe Gold Medal - the top medal in South Australia - using a Fenwick Elliott Mallet, winning 4 out of his 5 matches.

11th July 2005