“I told myself to stay calm and relax, because it’s just another 18 holes of golf,” said the 23 year-old from Amsterdam.. “Starting with three birdies was fantastic – every putt seemed to drop in the hole! On the back nine the wind got up a little bit, but I knew pars would be good enough to win. It’s a great feeling to win in my first season on the Challenge Tour.”  

His -13 final score and 5-stroke lead over Englishman Seve Benson and Jeppe Huldahl from Denmark netted a cheque for €35,200, and has also earned Remkes a place in the top five of the Challenge Tour Rankings in his maiden season. The top 20 will gain cards on next season’s European Tour International Schedule.

Taco was using a long-shafted Yes! Natalie Putter that had been custom-fitted for him by Bart van der Wind in Eindhoven. The Natalie is a very distinctive centre-shafted, face-balanced putter with a long single alignment line in its elliptical ‘cut-out’ head. As well as the long-shaft option, the Natalie is also available in belly length (40 inch – 45 inch) and standard length (32 inch to 36 inch), as well as in a left-hand variant. 

Other players currently favouring the Natelie include Tom Whitehouse and Eamon Brady

The Yes! Golf facility in Eindhoven is the first custom-fitting golf club laboratory of its kind in Europe outside of the British Isles, with specialized focus on putters . Not only is it a first for The Netherlands, it is a first for mainland Europe as well. 

The facility is owned by Approach Golf – a golf distributor based in the south of the country, and one that has made itself a fearsome reputation by taking the Yes! Golf brand of C-Groove putters and putting them in golf shops from Reykjavik to Moscow in a little over two years.

Outside of the British Isles (Yes! Golf UK & Ireland is a separate entity based in the UK) for a sports equipment brand to have achieved such widespread distribution is almost unheard of (and sales are up 30% on last year). Particularly when one considers that while Yes! Golf is usually #2 or #3 most widely used putter on the Tour, it is only a fraction the size of the big golf names that predominate, such as TaylorMade, Titleist, Nike and so forth.