SI scribe appeals to Buffett for taking over of his club co

 SI scribe appeals to Buffett for taking over of his club company

Here is a letter which writen by one of SI scribe. He appeals to Warren Buffett for a takeover of his club company. Part of the letter is this:

I am an SI writer and one of your many fans. Your stock-picking speaks for itself. And then there's your candid and witty writing. The wife and I use your GEICO insurance. I see signs of you on the golf trail. When the Ryder Cup was in Louisville in 2008, I dropped in on the Buffett Cup, your bridge competition, at a downtown hotel. During the Masters, I've done player interviews beside your locker in the Augusta National clubhouse.

Augusta National — that's got to be the hardest chipping course in the world, don't you think? And it is with chipping in mind that I write to you today, Mr. Buffett. I am the inventor of a utility discount golf clubs called the E-Club. The E-Club is three clubs in one: putter, sand wedge and fairways. It's on the USGA list of conforming clubs, and I have a U.S. patent on it. I also have a 30-minute infomercial featuring Nick Price, Judy Rankin and various young assistant pros, all of whom can do unlikely things with it. And a storage unit in Feasterville, Pa., with, as I write this sentence, 723 E-Clubs in it. It's a nice little company — no debt, no other products — which I own with another golf nut. We call it Bantam Golf Co. I'm wondering if you'd like to buy it.

So what sort of magic does the E-Club pack? I'm sure you've seen golfers putt from off the green. You see it at Augusta National and on many hard, firm public courses, including the Old Course. When Tiger Woods won the British Open there in 2000, he putted from 70 yards off the green. You might know the adage of the yippy chipper: A bad putt is better than a bad chip. Putting from off the green works, but only to a point.

The main problem is that the putters have little loft, and fairway grass can be long and clingy, especially in the early morning dew or in the rain. You have to hit a putt from off the green with enough oomph to get it through the fairway, but then your ball starts breaking speed limits once it reaches the green. Three putts later it's, Put me down for a 7, Bill. We've all been there.

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I realize, Mr. Buffett, that you would not be interested in a golf company that sold one specialty club to the desperate and the needy. But there's a huge potential pool there, if you could sway the overly proud. Gene Sarazen invented the sand wedge and made it popular by winning with it. Look at what Tom Kite did for the lob wedge, what Paul Azinger did for the seven-wood, what Bernhard Langer did for the long putter. Nick Price was a wonderful and generous spokesman for us, but he didn't need the club. He was too good.

What the E-Club needs is a trusted spokesman who will give the club legitimacy by using it in public, in the heat of battle. How about an owner-operator who could be the club's pitchman, too? That, Mr. Buffett, could be you.

Try to contain your excitement.

Thank you for your time, Mr. Buffett. Happy chipping.

Sincerely,

Michael Bamberger

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