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Review: Almost Golf – Practice Golf Balls

By Sean ⋅ January 7, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

Living in the North East, one does not have many opportunities to get out and actually play golf. We are pretty much stuck with working on our swing indoors (my ceiling loves that), playing Tiger Woods on the Wii/Dancin Dogg simulator (which is pretty darn cool!) or playing with various practice type balls. In the [...]

Review: TrueStrike Golf Mat

By Sean ⋅ December 27, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

Background This winter, my goal was to set up an indoor driving range so I can keep my swing in tune during the cold winter months. Fortunately for me, my home has 9′ ceilings in the basement, so I am able to do this. Obviously, one of the main components to an indoor range is [...]

Review: SwingTempo

By Sean ⋅ December 26, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Background I had the opportunity to demo the SwingTempo this week. I’ve used it in my basement on my indoor “driving range”, and today, I used it outside at the actual driving range. This training aid is designed to help you work on the one aspect of your swing I’m sure you’re ignoring: tempo. This [...]

Christmas Golf Gift Ideas

By Sean ⋅ November 28, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

Well, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed us by, if you haven’t already begun shopping for Christmas gifts, you probably don’t celebrate this highly commercialized holiday! If you have a golfer on your Christmas list, here are some ideas for this joyous giving season: A Box of Golf Balls This is an old standby [...]

Review: Power Stance

By Sean ⋅ October 26, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

You may remember an excited guy jumping up and down with joy as he advanced to the next round of Fore Inventors Only. Joseph Pagano, inventor of The Power Stance, brought a great deal of liveliness to the cast of inventors on this Golf Channel contest/reality show. Unfortunately for Joe, the Power Stance did not [...]

Review: Momentus Power Hitter

By Sean ⋅ October 8, 2007 ⋅ 10 comments

Background A typical modern driver weighs approximately 250-280 grams (200g head, 50-80g shaft). The Power Hitter weighs in at a whopping 500g, twice the weight of your normal driver. This has a couple significant effects on your golf swing: 1) you cannot possibly get your hands/arms overly involved in the golf swing without horribly slicing [...]

Review: Tour Links Putting Green

By Sean ⋅ September 27, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

How many of you have putted on your office or living room carpet, and after a few minutes realized it was just not a realistic speed, or consistency of a real green? How about with one of those “putting carpets” that have a hole on the end that returns the ball to you? Again, they [...]

Track Your Golf Game Online with OobGolf

By Sean ⋅ January 15, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

About OobGolf OobGolf is a somewhat new site that one can use to track your entire golf game online and on the road. Similar to the golf stats suite at The Golf Space, you can enter a round hole by hole, tracking # of putts, fairways hit, bunkers, penalty strokes and greens in regulation. My [...]