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New Pro V1 makes Tour debut
The 2009 Pro V1 and Pro V1x balls, what Titleist calls the ‘next generation’, were
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played on Tour for the first time at the PGA Tour’s season opener, the
Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii, January 8-11.
Of the 20 golfers teeing up that week with Titleist balls, 10 were using
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one of the new models. The highest finisher from that 10 was Davis Love III,
The 2009 London Golf Show will be staged at
in a tie for second place, while winner Geoff Ogilvy played with played with
the Docklands’ ExCel Centre from May 1-3.
the 2007 Pro V1.
The 2009 Pro V1 and Pro V1x will be available in shops in March.
Arnie at Celtic Manor
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Arnold Palmer will attend KPMG’s sixth annual
Golf Business Forum at Celtic Manor, May 4-6,
to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Extended performance from
Sunderland supplies Golf
Glenmuir
Foundation
Sunderland of Scotland has agreed to be the
Glenmuir is adding 10 new shirts to its Spring-Summer 2009 range: three short-sleeved polos to the
Golf Foundation’s Official Rainwear Supplier
Men’s Performance Collection, and seven new Performance polos for women.
for 2009. This is the 10th straight year the
The men’s polos are the Hi-Cool Classic, Hi-Cool Stripe and Hi-Cool Sport, while the women’s shirts
clothing brand has supported the Foundation.
reads like the ladies golf team sheet: Joyce, Heather, Holly, Kat, Amy, Nina and Nancy.
All 10 shirts are made from 70% cotton and 30% polyester jersey, and they all benefit from
England Golf in the money
Glenmuir’s Hi-Cool Moisture Management System. Retail prices start at £31.50 for the women’s shirts
England Golf has been awarded a £12.8
and at £34.75 for the men’s.
million grant by Sport England to develop
www.glenmuir.co.uk
the sport over the next four years. For the
previous four-year spell England Golf was
granted £8.2 million.
New drivers from Nike
‘Show me the Golf’ goes live
Is it an anagram? Is it a top-secret code to the secret of golf? No, it’s the name of
Brought to you by the founders of Golf Punk
Nike’s new family of drivers: SQ DYMO STR8-FIT (the last bit is pronounced ‘straight
magazine, internet TV site
fit’, so it sounds better than it reads).
www.showmethegolf.tv has gone live, and a
The DYMO STR8-FIT and DYMO
2
STR8-FIT offer golfers eight options to alter the
regular ‘Show me the Golf’ TV series is also
clubface. The clubfaces have three possible ‘closed’ positions, two ‘neutral’ positions
being broadcast on Setanta.
and three ‘open’ settings.
Available from “Spring”, says Nike, the drivers come with an RRP of £360.
Research supports 2Thumb
www.nikegolfeurope.com
An independent study conducted by
Loughborough University’s Sports Technology
Institute has concluded that the 2Thumb
Putter Grip promotes a pendulum-like
New software
putting stroke.
from FlightScope
True to form
True Temper shafts have started 2009 on Tour
FlightScope, the ball-flight and launch monitor
much the same way as they finished 2008:
and 3D tracking radar, has released its Version
winning. Project X and Project X Flighted
5.5.1 software, which will be available to
shafts were first and second at the recent
partners worldwide in February. The updated
Joburg Open, while True Temper’s Precision
Rifle shaft was used by the winners of the
software offers improvements to the FlightScope’s
South African Open and Alfred Dunhill
data on a club’s angle of attack, grouping radius
Championship.
comparisons and print screen data, among
other areas.
Hearing Aid
www.flightscope.com
Following the British Medical Journal’s report
claiming the sound of some drivers striking
GolfBuddy comes to Europe
golf balls can damage your hearing,
Specsavers would like all golfers to know that
their Hearing Centres stock Elacin high fidelity
GolfBuddy handheld GPS systems are joining the European rangefinder market this year.
hearing protectors at a retail price of £15.
The brand offers two handheld models, and promises to have 6,000 European golf course maps
available by the end of the year.
New-look GEL online
The European operation will be led from Dublin by general manager John Ennis, formerly of
GEL Golf’s UK website, www.gelgolf.co.uk,
MacGregor, and he is going through the process of recruiting a 50-strong sales force to operate across
has a ‘groovy’ new look for 2009. Don’t
32 countries.
miss it.
www.gpsgolfbuddy.com
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