Bill Kelly is a master craftsman and a professional fitting specialist!
Bill Kelly started clubmaking as a hobby in March 1991 to find clubs to fit a very tall, athletic son. He then made hundreds of clubs as a hobbiest for friends and acquaintences until August 1995 when he Founded Santa Barbara Golf Technologies. He has graduated from intense, technical training in fitting and clubmaking including the Advanced Golfclub Fitting and Assembly and the Master Craftsman Courses at Golfsmith International Headquarters in Austin, Texas, and the Advanced Fitting course at the Professional Clubmakers Society in Louisville, Kentucky. Additionally, to ensure that each golfers swing mechanics are completely accounted for during his fittings he became certified as a golf teaching professional Level III through the USGTF. He attends the Annual International Clubmakers Conference and Technical Seminars every year and has had the pleasure of attending the Harvey Penick Golf Academy in 1998, 2000 and again in 2003. Since starting Santa Barbara Golf Technologies August 1, 1995 which had a name change in January 2001 to Kellythegolfclubpro, Bill has provided professionally-fitted golfclubs, alterations and repairs for hundreds of satisfied customers.
Bob Dugan is a PCS certified class A Clubmaker!
Bob Dugan began making fitted Golf clubs after attending Golfsmiths School in November 1995. His original shop, called Dugan’s Sticks Inc., was located on the Island of Oahu near the city of Kapolei on the west side. At the same time he became the distributor for Penley Golf Shafts in Hawaii.
In 1998 Bob joined the Professional Clubmakers Society (PCS). In 2000 he took and passed their exam to become a certified “Class A” Clubmaker. In 2004 he moved back to Ventura CA and opened his shop there. Each year Bob travels to either Austin TX or Louisville KY for training, seminars and a glimpse at the new products being debut for the next year.
The spring of 2006 brought an offer to be a part of this small venture in Carpentaria, at Tee-time driving range. We have managed to create The Best Golf Club Fitting site in the TRI counties area, by combining the talents of two experienced club fitters.
As you can see below our test area is spacious and our shop, a 10 foot by 11 foot area, is crammed full of all the test equipment and tools necessary to do any club-fitting, clubmaking and repair task presnted to us.
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