Christmas Golf?

Golf Balls

This is always the ‘old standby’, I am sure most people out there with a golfing dad has bought a dozen golf balls as a gift on numerous occasions. If your dad generally plays ‘whatever golf ball he finds’ you could surprise him with a dozen ProV1 golf balls, at a discount price. How, you say? Check out our review on KnetGolf, a company that resells refinished or recycled golf balls. You can get top quality balls for half the price, and I really could not notice any difference…performance wise or cosmetically. So if you are looking to surprise that golfer in the family with some pricey golf balls…without breaking the bank, that route is a great option.

Epoch Golf Tee

A big bag of wooden golf tees is another traditional gift for a golfer. Rather than boring that golfer in your family with a $5 bag of 100 wooden tees in their stocking, check out our Evolve Golf. They offer a couple varieties of environmentally friendly, reusable golf tees. Not long ago we reviewed the Epoch and Vireo golf tees. Both can be had for about the same price as a large bag of wooden golf tees, but will last a heck of a lot longer, might eek out a few more yards and you won’t be killing any trees in the process.

Sassy Golf Glove

So you have a lady golfer in your life, and have no clue what to get her. Well, Sassy Golf has a real simple option for you, a decked out golf glove designed by a woman for women. Elizabeth, over at Sassy Golf, grew tired of wearing a man’s golf glove sized for a woman. So she put together some cute glove designs and has been selling her Sassy Golf gloves like crazy! There are a number of design options available, so you have another opportunity to be a little creative. The gloves can be had for just under $20 and include a boutique style gift pouch…saves you some wrapping time perhaps? After you order one of these gloves for the golfing woman in your life, be sure to follow Sassy Golf on Twitter.

Practice Golf Balls

Is your golfer looking at a cold winter season, stuck indoors? There are a number of practice golf balls on the market that can help ease the winter golf blues. We have reviewed a few of the options in the past, all of which are great options, let’s have a look at see what might work best for your golfer. Almost Golf makes a soft, foam like golf ball that looks a traditional golf ball and almost feels and flies like one. It could be used indoors for chipping or hit into a net in your garage. Another option, if the golfer has a little less space is The Floppy. The Floppy is more of a bean bag type material that can be used for any number of short game shots around the house. It works great off carpet, and unless you are hitting it toward that antique vase, it should be relatively safe around the house. Now, for the golfer that is in a little warmer weather and can hit some balls outside, your best bet is the Birdie Ball. The Birdie Ball is the most realistic feeling of the practice balls we have tested, but flies a much shorter distance. So for someone with a small back yard, you can still take pretty big swings and not worry about breaking any windows…well…hopefully not! All of these practice balls can be had at stocking stuffer prices, and would be a great gift for the avid golfer.

Pure Ball Striker

How many people out there have spent hundreds of dollars on golf training aids, only to find them collecting dust in the basement? The Pure Ball Striker is a very simple, yet very effective training aid that will help you develop lag pressure in your swing. It’s as simple as a little piece of rubber cut to fit over your golf grip. You place the meat of your lower hand (right hand for right handed golfers) on the PBS and feel the club head lagging against that finger through your swing. It’s something you can use anywhere and anytime you are practicing. Coming in at under $15, it definitely falls into that stocking stuffer category. Here is a nice video review of the product.

Golf Clubs

Now, what about golf clubs? This is a tricky subject. If the golfer in your life is an avid golfer, he or she probably has a very good idea of what type of club fits their game and what they want in a club. Most likely they would want to demo a few sets of irons or try out a variety of drivers before setting on a single club. This makes it difficult to choose a specific golf club for such people. In this case, it may make sense to simply get them a gift certificate at a local pro shop. Maybe make it a little interesting, buy them a custom club fitting at a location with a launch monitor or motion capture technology (TaylorMade Performance Lab or MotionGolf). If you still want to stick with a golf club, check out our used golf club buying guide on oobgolf.

Win some Golf Stocking Stuffers!

Okay, so hopefully you got some good advice there, and have enough time to order some little stocking stuffers for that golfer in your life. Now, if you are really tight on cash, and still want to get that golfer a pretty cool gift, have no fear, The Deep Rough has put together a little stocking stuffer contest for you! We will be awarding four prizes over the next couple of weeks.

• December 11th – Post a Comment – A Selection of a Dozen Golf Balls from KnetGolf
• December 16th – Follow us on Twitter – A Selection of Golf Tees from Evolve Golf
• December 18th – Subscribe to the Newsletter – Three Birdie Balls
• December 24th – Random One of the Above – A new Heavy Putter Mid-Weight CX2

To be entered into the contest, simply do one or all of the following:

Comment on a post on The Deep Rough (be sure to leave a valid email address) – We will select one comment posted after December 7th 2009, on December 11th. There is no limit to the number of entries, but please keep in mind that any that are determined to be spam will be deleted. So please, make your comments meaningful.

Follow us on Twitter and Retweet – Simply tweet the following:

RT @thedeeprough Enter our Stocking Stuffer Contest http://bit.ly/89mhHa

We will select one random person who tweets the message above on December 16th. Again, no limit to the number of entries.

Subscribe to our Newsletter – We will randomly select one new subscriber to The Deep Rough as of December 18th, make sure you have entered a valid email address and confirmed the validation email.

Lastly, for the putter, we will put all of the comments, tweets and new newsletter subscribers into a big pool, and randomly select one entry. The Heavy Putter Mid-Weight CX2 could be a nice little ‘slightly belated’ Christmas gift for someone!

Enter early, and enter often! Enjoy! Happy Holidays!

Winners

• December 11th – Dozen Golf Balls from KnetGolf – Jim V
• December 16th – A Selection of Golf Tees from Evolve Golf – @garthspaulding of CA
• December 18th – Three Birdie Balls – Jeremy of MD
• December 24th – A new Heavy Putter Mid-Weight CX2 – George of NV

** Note, the winners have been selected and notified. If I do not hear back from them or if they do not meet the residency requirements, new winners will be selected. Thanks to everyone for entering the contest, it was very successful! Be sure to keep your eye open for the upcoming August contest! **

First of all, let me extend congratulations to the winners of the June Birdie Ball Contest and a big thank you to everyone who participated.

June Winners

• Mike of Beavercreek, OH
• Patrick of Tarrant, AL
• Robert of Thomasville, NC

For July we have decided to put together another very simple contest along the same lines as the June contest. However we have added a new prize to the contest. Three winners will be selected again, and in order the winners will receive:

• First Place: Three Birdie Balls and a set of Epoch Golf Tees
• Second Place: Two Birdie Balls
• Third Place: One Birdie Ball

To enter the contest, all you need to do is subscribe to our Newsletter by entering your email address and clicking subscribe below. On the morning of July 31st, 2008, we will randomly select 3 subscribers to The Deep Rough (previous winners excluded). The first selected winning First Place. So make sure you subscribe by July 30th! Could it get any easier? Email addresses must be valid accounts which have been verified, as winners will be notified by the subscribed email address. So make sure you verify your account! This is important, last month we had about 100 people who had not verified their accounts, so they were not eligible to win. Due to shipping costs, the contest is only open to residents of the USA and Canada. Feel free to send this along to your family and friends, have them enter as well!

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** Note, the winners have been selected and notified. If I do not hear back from them or if they do not meet the residency requirements, new winners will be selected. Thanks to everyone for entering the contest, it was very successful! Be sure to keep your eye open for the upcoming July contest! **

Congrats to the following winners:

• Mike of Beavercreek, OH
• Patrick of Tarrant, AL
• Robert of Thomasville, NC

Not long ago, we did a review on practice balls from Birdie Ball. The people at Birdie Ball were kind enough to send us a bunch of Deep Rough branded balls. They have a nice little Deep Rough logo on the side and are a blast to play with.

So we have decided to put together a very simple contest for the month of June. To enter the contest, all you need to do is subscribe to our Newsletter by entering your email address and clicking subscribe below. On the morning of June 30th, 2008, we will randomly select 3 new subscribers to the The Deep Rough and send you a Birdie Ball. So make sure you subscribe by June 29th! Could it get any easier? Email addresses must be valid accounts which have been verified, as winners will be notified by the subscribed email address. So make sure you verify your account! Due to shipping costs, the contest is only open to residents of the USA and Canada. Feel free to send this along to your family and friends, have them enter as well!

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While you are in the ‘entering contest mood’, head on over to oobgolf.com and help them name a cool new feature of their site. They are giving out Mizuno Golf Gloves, a hat and a shirt for your help!