The Shoe Tool Review
Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, September 29th, 2006
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Reviews
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Reviews
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Ya gotta love golf. There are so many gadgets. Just when you think there can’t be anything new introduced someone comes up with something like The Shoe Tool. I’m not a big soft spikes fan. I loved the steel spikes. The soft spikes and crazy shoe bottom designs these days have lots of surfaces, holes, teeth (or whatever you want to call them) that pick up tons of debris. The complex shoe bottoms these days can be completely caked with mud, dirt, grass clippings. When all of this debris is on the bottom of my shoes I lose my footing, causing my normally accurate driver to go just about anywhere but down the middle. The Shoe Tool is a small device which can clamp onto your golf bag or cart or even fit in your back pocket. It looks like a tiny little garden rake, but the teeth of the rake are much stronger. You can get all the debris off your soles in a few seconds. You’ll be able to swing with confidence that your feet won’t slip and you’ll be able to walk indoors or onto the putting green without tracking unwanted materials. Promotional Shoe Tools can be great promotional items for your business. You can have your logo printed on the grip and hand them out for promotion or tee prizes etc. Colors The grip of the Shoe Tool is available in eight colors and the rake portion seven colors. You can even mix colors between the grip and the rake. Conclusion The Shoe Tool has a permanent home along side my towels on my golf bag. I can easily grab it and quickly clean my spikes to insure I have solid footing. Fall is on the way, bringing wet ground and lots of leaves. My shoe tool will be working overtime. While my opponents will be slipping all over the place and hitting errant shots, I’ll be striping it with solid footing and collecting the bets at the end of the round as a result. |
Phil Mickelson is done until 2007
Phil Mickelson is done until 2007. We’ll have to wait until next year to see his smiling face and watch his questionable shot choices on the course.
Byron Nelson tribute by Cleveland
There’s a nice Byron Nelson tribute on the Cleveland Golf web site.
ALL golf courses should do this
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Categories: Golf Courses • Miscellaneous
Categories: Golf Courses • Miscellaneous
I was IMPRESSED today when I stopped in at one of my home courses. Posted on all the entrances, the scoreboard and miscellaneous other places I saw a notice letting course patrons know they they’re punching the greens on October 3rd and 4th. This is not only courteous but honorable for them to do.
I REALLY don’t like it when I show up to a course, pay my green fees and then get to the first green only to find out they’re freshly punched. I think courses who don’t notify their customers are ripping them off. I really don’t enjoy punched greens.
So here’s a note to you golf courses to do the honorable thing and let people know when your greens are punched or when your course conditions are not up to par. You may lose a few short term customers while the course is recovering, but you’ll win them over in the long run.
Pop Up Protector (PUP) Review
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Reviews
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Reviews
Challenge
In order for me to adequately evaluate the Pop Up Protector, or PUP, I had to try to hit a shot I haven’t hit in years. I’m thinking it’s been at least 4 and probably 5 years since I hit a sky ball. It’s been 5 years since I put a humiliating “sky mark” on one of my clubs. A sky mark is a scratch in the top of a wood or hybrid which stares right back up at you and reminds you of the horrid shot you hit which caused the mark in the first place. It’s really nice to have a reminder of horrid shots in golf……not.
First test, a 460cc driver
You really have to miss hit it to put a sky mark on one of these jumbo heads. I placed the PUP on the top and smoothed it out as best I could. I did get a little crease but I imagine with more practice that wouldn’t be a problem. Then I teed the ball up really high and came straight down for my downswing. Voila! I skied it on my first try and left a big sky mark on the PUP. After pulling off the PUP I found the top of the driver to be just as flawless as it was before my amazing “lob driver.” These PUPs work great!
2nd test, a hybrid
For this test I used one of the smaller PUPs on a 19 degree Sonar Tec. Amazingly it was much harder for me to hit a sky ball with this club than the big driver. I teed up a range ball and came down steep just like the driver swing. Amazingly I completely wiped out the tee and the ball didn’t move an inch. Two of my kids were watching me do this and they started laughing. They said “bet you can’t do that again” and laughed like crazy as I did it TWO more times.
Finally I teed it low enough and came down just right. I hit such a sky ball with this hybrid that I almost knocked my hat off. Sure enough there was a great sky mark on the PUP. When I removed the PUP, once again there was no sign of even the smallest bit of damage. I’m sold.
Uses
There are a few great reasons to use Pop Up Protectors. The obvious ones are preserving the finish on the top of your clubs and therefore retaining their aesthetic and monetary value.
As I mentioned before, I’m not big on having something remind me of bad shots. Having sky marks on a club does just that.
Conclusion
PUPs would be ideal not only for a personal use but for pro shops, club fitting and demo days. Pro shops or or demo days can put PUPs on all their rental or demo sets. Club fitters can do something other than covering the whole club head with masking tape, which alters the performance of the face and looks plain stupid.
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