A number of pro shops offer used golf balls at a fraction of a price depending on the quality. Using pre-owned golf balls is nothing to be ashamed of, in fact, there are a high number of golfers who prefer playing with used golf balls or wholesale golf clubs. Not only that they come in cheap, there are high quality ones that are being sold at half the price. Other than that, these balls are manufactured in such a way that their performance would be the same every time you use it. So, there is really no difference if you would use a new one or not.
Take for example the Nike One black series. This particular line is offered at around $49.95 a dozen but if you would purchase it at an online store that offers high quality used golf balls. The same Nike One black series, is offered for only $24.00 a dozen in their top of the line reclaimed ball category. However, the best way to buy pre-owned balls are to hand pick them one by one; inspecting for any bulges, discoloration, and scratches. Pre-used golf balls are sold accordingly to the different grades. The grades are pre-determined by their luster, color, mark, and scuffs. These balls suits budget conscious and inexperienced golfers alike.
The first among the four would be the Pearls. These are reclaimed balls in superb condition.
Second would be the Grade A golf balls. These are nearly perfect balls with just light and minimal scratches in it, the logo or print might be a little scratched off but still readable. The quality of these balls is just below the Pearls in color and luster. Grade A balls are normally sold at only quarter of the price.
Third type would be the Grade B balls or the slightly flawed golf balls. The color and the logo are already faded; scratches and other marks are more visible with the glossy finish slightly rubbed off. These are normally used golf drivers for practices and for handicapped games. For budget conscious and starters, Grade C balls are good for practices. With its color washed out and other blemishes, you wouldn't regret losing it in one of your high risk strikes or even in practices.
Of course, aside from knowing what kind of golf balls to buy, you should know where to buy. Other than pro shops, garage sales usually offer them by the bucket. However, just like golf balls, there are online stores that offer golf balls according to category.
2010年4月29日星期四
2010年4月28日星期三
Top 7 Questions to Discount Green Fees(2)
4. Do You Get Discounts for the entire golf season? Know how long the season is for the discount golf green fees. Is it a short time from mid-June to August 31? Do you have to play before May or after September? The best discount green fees cards will allow you to get savings all year round for as long as the golf course is open. Don't buy a golf card that has seasonal playing restrictions.
5. Can you avoid cow pastures, the "Turtle Greens" golf networks? I learned to play golf as a teenager in Wisconsin. My father took us to Turtle Greens, built by farmer on the outskirts of his farm. The clubhouse was a barn; the fairways were like cow pastures; the greens were shabby like a mowed back yard. Of course, we were real hackers and kids at the time. Make sure that the golf courses in your membership directory are a decent mix of very good courses, medium courses and "practice" courses. That way you can select the ones you want for a particular round. Some days, you may want to play a challenging forest course. Other times, you just want to play a simple course to get some exercise.
6. How reputable is the vendor's performance and longevity? Is this program new? How long has it been around? How many members has it served? How many belong now? Does it offer a money-back guarantee? These are important questions to ask, especially with on-line services. Anyone can put up a website. Take care to do due diligence and check out the vendor before you spend your hard earned money. And make sure that they have a money-back guarantee if you are unsatisfied for any reason. Now that you have these questions about discount green fees programs, all you need to do is find one that helps you save money and get out on the links for less.
7. Can you learn the pluses and minuses of the golf courses for wholesale golf clubs in the network - before you buy? If the online golf card membership program allows you to search, it should also give you the details of what you get. Different golf courses offer different discounts. Is the discount network allow you to play only on weekdays? Does the discount golf drivers apply to weekends? Is your play restricted to a certain time of day, like before 7:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m.?
When many golf courses belong to the network, there will be many different variations. Just make sure that there is enough variety to fit your best times to tee it up. Take tee times for instance.
5. Can you avoid cow pastures, the "Turtle Greens" golf networks? I learned to play golf as a teenager in Wisconsin. My father took us to Turtle Greens, built by farmer on the outskirts of his farm. The clubhouse was a barn; the fairways were like cow pastures; the greens were shabby like a mowed back yard. Of course, we were real hackers and kids at the time. Make sure that the golf courses in your membership directory are a decent mix of very good courses, medium courses and "practice" courses. That way you can select the ones you want for a particular round. Some days, you may want to play a challenging forest course. Other times, you just want to play a simple course to get some exercise.
6. How reputable is the vendor's performance and longevity? Is this program new? How long has it been around? How many members has it served? How many belong now? Does it offer a money-back guarantee? These are important questions to ask, especially with on-line services. Anyone can put up a website. Take care to do due diligence and check out the vendor before you spend your hard earned money. And make sure that they have a money-back guarantee if you are unsatisfied for any reason. Now that you have these questions about discount green fees programs, all you need to do is find one that helps you save money and get out on the links for less.
7. Can you learn the pluses and minuses of the golf courses for wholesale golf clubs in the network - before you buy? If the online golf card membership program allows you to search, it should also give you the details of what you get. Different golf courses offer different discounts. Is the discount network allow you to play only on weekdays? Does the discount golf drivers apply to weekends? Is your play restricted to a certain time of day, like before 7:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m.?
When many golf courses belong to the network, there will be many different variations. Just make sure that there is enough variety to fit your best times to tee it up. Take tee times for instance.
Top 7 Questions to Discount Green Fees(1)
If golf is one of your life's passions, you know how costly it is to play twice or more a week. Add up $65 for greens fees + $25 for a cart, twice a week for 23 weeks and you spend will more than $3,500 a year to tee it up on golf courses. Your golf score may probably improve, but bank account probably won't! Many discount golf programs promise that you can "Play more golf and pay less."
There are many wholesale golf clubs from golf course greens fee arrangements. Some are on-line; some are printed coupon books. Some work very effectively, where you can double your money or cut your fees in half. Some are real duds.
To become a savvy buyer that your golf buddies and friends look up to. Use this 7 question checklist to figure out whether buying an on-line membership golf card is worth it.
1. How easily can you find a golf course? The program should make it easy to find a course. I have purchased a number of state golf discount coupon books. A paper coupon book allows you to look in the index to find where the golf courses are listed. Before you buy these in a golf store, you can look through the book to see if your favorite courses are listed. If you subscribe to an online discount golf card program, make sure you can search the golf course directory. It helps to search by zip code, state, city, distance to the golf course and even golf course name. If the search function is missing or limited, don't buy that membership.
2. How many courses belong to the discount golf drivers course network? Is it 10? 50? 150? 3,000? The more courses the better. Why? Because if 100,000 people buy the membership and there are only one hundred courses, you'll get stuck trying to get a good tee time.
3. Do you have to travel to Montana to play golf? Does this program offer local courses for just one state, like Wisconsin or New Mexico? Is the network nationwide? Do you have to drive to the middle of Montana to find a course? With the cost of gasoline and driving these days, are there enough golf course within a 50 mile radius of your home? If you vacation in Peoria, do those golf courses belong to the network?
There are many wholesale golf clubs from golf course greens fee arrangements. Some are on-line; some are printed coupon books. Some work very effectively, where you can double your money or cut your fees in half. Some are real duds.
To become a savvy buyer that your golf buddies and friends look up to. Use this 7 question checklist to figure out whether buying an on-line membership golf card is worth it.
1. How easily can you find a golf course? The program should make it easy to find a course. I have purchased a number of state golf discount coupon books. A paper coupon book allows you to look in the index to find where the golf courses are listed. Before you buy these in a golf store, you can look through the book to see if your favorite courses are listed. If you subscribe to an online discount golf card program, make sure you can search the golf course directory. It helps to search by zip code, state, city, distance to the golf course and even golf course name. If the search function is missing or limited, don't buy that membership.
2. How many courses belong to the discount golf drivers course network? Is it 10? 50? 150? 3,000? The more courses the better. Why? Because if 100,000 people buy the membership and there are only one hundred courses, you'll get stuck trying to get a good tee time.
3. Do you have to travel to Montana to play golf? Does this program offer local courses for just one state, like Wisconsin or New Mexico? Is the network nationwide? Do you have to drive to the middle of Montana to find a course? With the cost of gasoline and driving these days, are there enough golf course within a 50 mile radius of your home? If you vacation in Peoria, do those golf courses belong to the network?
2010年4月25日星期日
How To Save Money On Golf Clubs
Spring is here, the weather is warming up, and soon golfers are going to begin flocking to the courses in big numbers. Golf has become such a huge sport, not just in the United States but world wide. There are a lot great players in the world, but we can thank mostly Tiger Woods for the increasing popularity. The increase in popularity is great for the sport, but it also driving up cost for golfers. It's simple economics of supply and demand. Each year the equipment, training materials, and green fees continue to go up.
Each year when I begin golfing again as the weather warms up, I head out to a few of my local public courses and sure enough rates had gone up again. It's usually only a dollar or two, but still it gets frustrating year after year. You can almost count on it each year just like paying your taxes this time of year.
There are ways to save money on green fees however.
You can call around to your local courses and ask them if they have any special promotional deals that particular month. Every once in a while you can find a buy one round get the 2nd round for 1/2 price. Or if you buy something in the pro shop they will throw in a free round of golf drivers. Another way is to register on your favorite golf courses website for their news letters. Often these newsletters will have specials each month. Usually some kind of discount or buy one round get another round free in the same week or something ot that effect. The best way I have found to save money is to get a discount golf card. You can usually buy a card for each course but that gets a little expensive and may not save you money in the long run. But if you play the same course every time, then this might make sense for you.
The good ones I've seen have discounted or even free green fees at thousands of courses nationwide and in Canada. You can get these wholesale golf clubs online buy doing a simple Google search. They usually are pretty inexpensive and can be found for not much more than a round of golf with a cart.
Each year when I begin golfing again as the weather warms up, I head out to a few of my local public courses and sure enough rates had gone up again. It's usually only a dollar or two, but still it gets frustrating year after year. You can almost count on it each year just like paying your taxes this time of year.
There are ways to save money on green fees however.
You can call around to your local courses and ask them if they have any special promotional deals that particular month. Every once in a while you can find a buy one round get the 2nd round for 1/2 price. Or if you buy something in the pro shop they will throw in a free round of golf drivers. Another way is to register on your favorite golf courses website for their news letters. Often these newsletters will have specials each month. Usually some kind of discount or buy one round get another round free in the same week or something ot that effect. The best way I have found to save money is to get a discount golf card. You can usually buy a card for each course but that gets a little expensive and may not save you money in the long run. But if you play the same course every time, then this might make sense for you.
The good ones I've seen have discounted or even free green fees at thousands of courses nationwide and in Canada. You can get these wholesale golf clubs online buy doing a simple Google search. They usually are pretty inexpensive and can be found for not much more than a round of golf with a cart.
2010年4月22日星期四
The Review of Whole G15 Range (2)
Ping G15 Irons
The new G15 irons from Ping have been designed with the game improver in mind.
Like the Rapture V2's, they offer maximum forgiveness but are a subtler proposition aesthetically.
Released to supersede the G10 range they feature a wide sole which enables them to sit comfortably behind the ball and a large offset which positions the hands forwards.
This provides those who may have trouble getting the ball airborne with a confident feeling that this can be achieved and this indeed proved to be the case.
There was consistent feel throughout the irons and those shots that came out of the toe (due to a dodgy swing!) still managed to make their way airborne and carry over a forgiving distance.
One pleasant surprise was that during the backswing the club head felt weighted in such a way that I was aware of its position and so found it easier to control my current golfing curse, the over-swing.
Ping have released another winner, one that the mid- to high-handicapper will love, and although there are never any guarantees that a new set of golf irons will reduce your handicap I believe that these clubs will provide you with a very good chance of doing so.
Ping G15 Fairway Wood
The G15 is a little different to your normal fairway wood in that it features a lower profile and larger head than you may be used to, elongated from front to back, but it is this that the mid- to high-handicapper may benefit from psychologically.
The club is easy to position behind the ball and with its rear weighting I felt able to power my way solidly through the ball.
A couple of other pleasing aspects were the trajectory of flight and the distance.
Although I was using a 4-wood I was easily able to achieve, if not exceed on occasions, the distance normally achieved with my 3-wood.
This was another club that had Matt purring - this time after he launched a shot to the back of a par-three green with an impressive draw-shape.
Matt prefers fairway woods to long irons and was sold on the G15 golf drivers- it felt great in his hands, was a joy to swing and had a pleasingly high trajectory.
Simple to use from both tee and fairway, Ping have produced another club that makes the game easier for the mere mortal. And you can buy cheap ones from some wholesale golf clubs stores.
The new G15 irons from Ping have been designed with the game improver in mind.
Like the Rapture V2's, they offer maximum forgiveness but are a subtler proposition aesthetically.
Released to supersede the G10 range they feature a wide sole which enables them to sit comfortably behind the ball and a large offset which positions the hands forwards.
This provides those who may have trouble getting the ball airborne with a confident feeling that this can be achieved and this indeed proved to be the case.
There was consistent feel throughout the irons and those shots that came out of the toe (due to a dodgy swing!) still managed to make their way airborne and carry over a forgiving distance.
One pleasant surprise was that during the backswing the club head felt weighted in such a way that I was aware of its position and so found it easier to control my current golfing curse, the over-swing.
Ping have released another winner, one that the mid- to high-handicapper will love, and although there are never any guarantees that a new set of golf irons will reduce your handicap I believe that these clubs will provide you with a very good chance of doing so.
Ping G15 Fairway Wood
The G15 is a little different to your normal fairway wood in that it features a lower profile and larger head than you may be used to, elongated from front to back, but it is this that the mid- to high-handicapper may benefit from psychologically.
The club is easy to position behind the ball and with its rear weighting I felt able to power my way solidly through the ball.
A couple of other pleasing aspects were the trajectory of flight and the distance.
Although I was using a 4-wood I was easily able to achieve, if not exceed on occasions, the distance normally achieved with my 3-wood.
This was another club that had Matt purring - this time after he launched a shot to the back of a par-three green with an impressive draw-shape.
Matt prefers fairway woods to long irons and was sold on the G15 golf drivers- it felt great in his hands, was a joy to swing and had a pleasingly high trajectory.
Simple to use from both tee and fairway, Ping have produced another club that makes the game easier for the mere mortal. And you can buy cheap ones from some wholesale golf clubs stores.
2010年4月20日星期二
The Review of Whole G15 Range(1)
To celebrate their 50th anniversary Ping has introduced what it calls "our most comprehensive product launch in history."
The G15 Series appeals to the majority of golfers who rely on the easier-to-hit attributes of a maximum forgiveness, higher launch type of club.
Okay, over to Paul for a review of how he and Matt Cooper got on with the whole G15 range(wholesale golf clubs).
Ping G15 Driver
As is the norm these days, the G15 Driver features the maximum 460CC head but on address is doesn't feel as though you have to summon up all your strength to swing a monster.
The club features a large face but the head still manages to look sleek in design with a simple to use alignment aid.
So, the club looks great, it's easy to align and swing but what happens when you hit the ball?
Will this great design be ruined by an unholy noise that will have the rest of the driving range looking at you accusingly, holding their ears in mock pain?
Thankfully not, instead there is a satisfying 'ting' and the ball is sent on a very pleasing trajectory further than I've ever hit my current driver.
Rather than this being a one-off fluke, results were consistent and off-centre hits were more forgiving than I'm unaccustomed to.
A self-confessed short-hitter, Matt was looking to see if he could add some crucial yards to his drives with the G15 and was pleased to find himself hitting shorter irons into par-fours than he is used to.
Like me, he appreciated the fact that you feel no need to take a wild swipe at the ball - the club is as big as all modern drivers(such as callway ft-iz driver) are, but the design is smart enough to give every impression of smooth control.
Ping has surely produced another market leader with golf drivers.
The G15 Series appeals to the majority of golfers who rely on the easier-to-hit attributes of a maximum forgiveness, higher launch type of club.
Okay, over to Paul for a review of how he and Matt Cooper got on with the whole G15 range(wholesale golf clubs).
Ping G15 Driver
As is the norm these days, the G15 Driver features the maximum 460CC head but on address is doesn't feel as though you have to summon up all your strength to swing a monster.
The club features a large face but the head still manages to look sleek in design with a simple to use alignment aid.
So, the club looks great, it's easy to align and swing but what happens when you hit the ball?
Will this great design be ruined by an unholy noise that will have the rest of the driving range looking at you accusingly, holding their ears in mock pain?
Thankfully not, instead there is a satisfying 'ting' and the ball is sent on a very pleasing trajectory further than I've ever hit my current driver.
Rather than this being a one-off fluke, results were consistent and off-centre hits were more forgiving than I'm unaccustomed to.
A self-confessed short-hitter, Matt was looking to see if he could add some crucial yards to his drives with the G15 and was pleased to find himself hitting shorter irons into par-fours than he is used to.
Like me, he appreciated the fact that you feel no need to take a wild swipe at the ball - the club is as big as all modern drivers(such as callway ft-iz driver) are, but the design is smart enough to give every impression of smooth control.
Ping has surely produced another market leader with golf drivers.
2010年4月16日星期五
Improving Golf Swing
It is very hard to hear an athlete who does not work his or her body to prepare for a good performance. Some of the quickest ways through which to improve the player's golf swing speed and power is to do weight training exercise. Rapid results will only be accomplished through the combination of golf strength in the lower body as well as the upper body. The lunge with a twist is one such golf exercise(such as wholesale golf clubs) that proves to be effective. It combines the power on the lower body with the movement that is needed to achieve a commendable speed and distance in golf swing.
In this exercise, the player assumes he or she is standing in a position whereby the arms are straight and are hanging down in front of the body. As the player moves forward, they are supposed to rotate their upper body to the same side while holding the medicine ball or even a drum bell. The ball should be held high all the time.
The first step in the exercise is to sit upright in a chair either in the office or at home with the chest held high and the back held straight. The second step requires one to reach behind him or her with the left arm, which ensures that the upper body is rotated. The golfer should the leverage on the right arm against the left leg creating some sort of a torque.
The third step is to return to the starting position and then do the opposite leg. The fourth step requires the player to repeat each side ten times for three sets. The player is advised to maintain consistency in these movements and they will eventually see their golf swing increase with time. The other to improving golf swing is doing regular exercise and back stretches. Since much of golf drivers swing involves the back, a likelihood of back pains after much golf playing is inevitable. The backstretches help those golfers who would like to avoid the possibility of back pain or injury.
Finally, the golfer should switch the arms rotating them the opposite way and then and then repeat it severally. A golfer should however consult a physician before embarking on such exercises to avoid damage to the spinal cord or any other harm to the body.
In this exercise, the player assumes he or she is standing in a position whereby the arms are straight and are hanging down in front of the body. As the player moves forward, they are supposed to rotate their upper body to the same side while holding the medicine ball or even a drum bell. The ball should be held high all the time.
The first step in the exercise is to sit upright in a chair either in the office or at home with the chest held high and the back held straight. The second step requires one to reach behind him or her with the left arm, which ensures that the upper body is rotated. The golfer should the leverage on the right arm against the left leg creating some sort of a torque.
The third step is to return to the starting position and then do the opposite leg. The fourth step requires the player to repeat each side ten times for three sets. The player is advised to maintain consistency in these movements and they will eventually see their golf swing increase with time. The other to improving golf swing is doing regular exercise and back stretches. Since much of golf drivers swing involves the back, a likelihood of back pains after much golf playing is inevitable. The backstretches help those golfers who would like to avoid the possibility of back pain or injury.
Finally, the golfer should switch the arms rotating them the opposite way and then and then repeat it severally. A golfer should however consult a physician before embarking on such exercises to avoid damage to the spinal cord or any other harm to the body.
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