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This is a blog is about golf and style, and in Chapeau Noir's world, you can't have one without the other, at least on some level. Even if you have never given pause to consider your mix of stripes with checks, you will certainly agree that there is nothing more stylish than hitting a perfect pitch from 60 yards. Or 30, 44, 53, 68. It's the one from the distance you need to hit it.

You know the one. The low checker. The one that obeys when you whisper 'sit'. The one on which you pull the string. The one that feels as though it lingers an extra millisecond on the clubface. The one that almost makes time stand still. The one that comes off so perfectly that you want to savour the sensation for as long as you can, holding your finish waist high, admiring the result of your deft touch. That one.

And that's where these come in -- custom wedges from a company called James Patrick Golf.

Drink in the design goodness of these short game implements -- forged at the Kyoei Forging House in Ichikawa, Japan -- and you quickly create a picture in your minds eye of the result, which conjures a confidence building sensation within that fortells of shot after shot struck with optimal precision and consistency, flighted at the finest arc, imparting spin that's nothing short of sublime.

Founded by James Harrington, a man who has worked with the likes of Aaron Baddeley, Ryan Moore, Matt Kuchar and Kevin Streelman, Harrington comes by his trade the old fashioned way -- through hard work, experience, and craftsmanship.

For each and every one of us who are looking for that extra performance edge, that extra bit of touch, feel, control and yes, that extra element of style, it's James Patrick Golf at your service.