Golf Practice Blog

We’ve taken notice lately that many of our customers purchase certain items as a specific group. Though we present “recommended items” on the bottom of most training aid detail pages, our customers often will surf accross the entire site in order to find the three specific things that either their pro recommended or that they saw on the Golf Channel.

To that end, we have created ten new training packages that we feel will allow our customers a one-stop-shop for the most beneficial combinations of some of our best selling items. What’s more, we’ve applied a discount to the entire package that you can’t get by purchasing them separately. We’re adding new packages all the time, so if you don’t see a compilation of your favorites yet, keep checking back.

Take a look at all of our Training Combo Packages here under the training aids category.

If you have an idea for a training combo that you think would be beneficial, please feel free to contact us.

SANFORD, Fla. - I GOTCHA Ready, the preferred warm-up system of the Champions Tour, is rapidly becoming a campus staple. Pro Line Sports, the producers of the unique egg-shaped warm-up system, recently filled orders for both the University of Florida and the Texas A&M University Women’s Golf teams.

“We’re proud to be chosen as the warm-up system for these two fine programs,” said Jim Light, Pro Line Sports President. “It’s particularly fitting that we’re entering the world of collegiate golf because we relied heavily on academia to design a system that would be all-encompassing in stretching the golf muscles prior to the round and yet simple at the same time.”

Using the advice of academic kinesiologists, the product designers at Pro Line Sports came up with an egg-shaped weighted rubber device with a tapered slot that can be quickly and easily attached to any club. The key is the three different placements of the I GOTCHA Ready on the shaft of the club.

To begin the warm up, the I GOTCHA Ready is placed in the center of the shaft and swung 10 times to help promote tempo. Then using the quick & easy twist and lock design of the I GOTCHA Ready, it’s easily moved up just under the grip and 10 swings later, the golfer’s arm muscles will allow full release through the ball. The final placement is just above the club head. With the muscle memory developed by the first 20 swings and two placements, the rest of the golf muscles are properly loosened before the first shot of the round is struck.

“I think the athletes on these two outstanding teams will find that by using the I GOTCHA Ready Warm-Up System before their practice sessions they will have a much more effective practice than ever before,” said Light.

The I GOTCHA Ready is available in three weights: 8.5 ounces for men, 5.5 ounces for women and 10.5 ounces for professionals.

Visit www.PracticeRange.com for the complete line of I Gotcha Ready swing trainers as well as a full selection of golf training aids, books and videos.

Richard Oliver
San Antonio Express-News

FREDERICKSBURG — The sun had long ago nestled into the rich green hills of the Edwards Plateau, disappearing in another spectacular splash of light and color, when Hal Sutton settled into a chair in one of the rustic, cedar-scented cabins at Boot Ranch.
The celebrated golfer had a sermon to deliver.

And many in the game won’t like the cure.

Click here to read the rest of this article about Hal Sutton, written by Richard Oliver of the San Antonio Express News.

Shop thousands of the world’s best golf training aids, golf books and golf DVDs at PracticeRange.com and feel free to email us to request a printed catalog of our featured products.

The state of Texas has a long and proud history with the game of golf, and it’s current players and teachers are no exception.

Houston’s Jim Hardy has been named the PGA Teacher of the Year for 2007.

“Being honored like this is a very humbling experience,” said Hardy. “You always kind of hope such things come your way, but when they call to say you’ve been chosen, it’s kind of hard to believe. It’s really a wonderful thing.”

“I’m so proud that it happened for the Southern Texas PGA, too,” added Hardy. “We have many outstanding teachers within our Section . . . I kind of feel that we won as a Section, and it’s especially meaningful to be in the same company as Harvey Penick and Chuck Cook as PGA of America Teachers of the Year.”

Read the rest of the article about Jim Hardy from TexasGolf.Blogspot.com.

PracticeRange.com offers two outstanding Jim Hardy titles to assist in your golf training regimen:

1. Plane Truth for Golfers
2. Master Class: Plane Truth For Golfers

Though a bit early for the holiday gift-giving season, the staff at PracticeRange.com has decided to add 2008 golf-themed wall and desk calendars to its offering of golf books. We have 12- and 16-month titles available for the 2008 and 2008-2009 calendar years, and there are plenty of options to choose from:

1. Amazing But True Golf Facts Desk Calendar
2. Golf Courses: Fairways of the World Wall Calendar
3. Golf Digest 365 Days of Golf Wall Calendar
4. Golf Digest 365 Golf Holes Desk Calendar
5. Golf Resorts Wall Calendar
6. Natalie Gulbis All-Golf Wall Calendar
7. Sports Illustrated Classic Golf Courses Wall Calendar
8. Sports Illustrated Golf Desk Calendar
9. World’s Most Difficult Golf Holes Wall Calendar

Golfers are the type of people who will get up early on a Saturday… on purpose… in order to beat the heat to the first tee, so we figured they’d be the same sort who would like to beat the holiday shopping rush.

Please visit our Calendars section at PracticeRange.com for that perfect gift for the golfer in your life.

By Katharine Dyson
Golf Press Association Contributing Lifestyle Editor

While recently playing golf on a hot sticky day with my friend, we were waiting for the par-3 green to clear.

If you’re quenching your thirst with flavored waters like Glacéau’s VitaminWater, two 20-ounce bottles add up to 250 calories. Go ahead, read the fine print.

Click here to read the rest of this article from the Golf Press Association by Katharine Dyson.

For the best golf fitness training aids, please visit PracticeRange.com!

Of course, you had no idea it was my birthday on September 1st, so it’s ok that you didn’t get me anything. However we did have lots of orders for golf training aids over the long weekend, so I’ll consider that enough of a birthday gift from our golfing community.

I did receive an interesting email from another blog & newsletter to which I subscribe…

“Happy Birthday to you!
May the Golf Gods bless you;
With a birdie and a chip-in,
Plus a hole-in-one too!

Over bunkers and hazards,
Fly your ball in between,
May your buddies be wowed,
By your drives to the Green.”

Now with the proper inspiration, perhaps for my next birthday all of our PracticeRange.com customers can get together and write a touching birthday song and dedicate it to me.

Enough about me though. As promised a few weeks ago, with the advent of the new month we have our top selling products list hot off the presses for your review.

PracticeRange.com best sellers (in order of popularity):

1. 2Thumb Putter Grips
2. Swingyde
3. The Impact Bag
4. The Grip Coach
5. Plane EZ
6. Impact Ball
7. Dynaflex Pro Gyro
8. The Plane Stick
9.The 3-Club Tour with Hank Haney
10. Venus on the Fringe

I’m sure something on this list will help clear up that last hangup with your golf game. And remember for this time next year… I wear a medium shirt and my favorite color is blue.

Shop thousands of the world’s best golf training aids, golf books and golf DVDs at PracticeRange.com and feel free to email us to request a printed catalog of our featured products.

LONGWOOD, Fla. - Five men including the winner of the record-setting seven-man playoff at the Boeing Classic use the I GOTCHA Ready Warm-Up System to safely stretch and relax their body before taking on the competition. The seven golfers made history Sunday competing in the largest playoff in Champions Tour history.

The I GOTCHA Ready is so popular that more than 70 players on the Champions Tour use it including seven of the top 15 money leaders.

“The three-step process of the I GOTCHA Ready Warm-Up System starts with helping establish a smooth tempo and powerful release while effectively increasing flexibility and warming up the golf muscles,” said Jim Light, president and founder of Pro Line Sports, Inc. “It’s like having three products in one. The warm-up routine only takes a minute and will have golfers loose while building distance and flexibility.”

Whether you are a Tour player or an avid golfer, the quick & easy twist-n-lock design of the I GOTCHA Ready allows golfers to safely stretch their body helping to prevent possible injury.

The I GOTCHA Ready Warm-Up System comes in three weights and is available at PracticeRange.com for $28.95 plus $6.30 shipping and handling.

Yes, I know it’s August, but we’ve decided that as we get closer to the end of summer, you may be looking to fix that one last hang-up with your golf game.

To that end, we have generated a Top-10 list of our best sellers from PracticeRange.com for the month of July, and hope to produce a list like this every month.

PracticeRange.com best sellers (in order of popularity):

1. 2Thumb Putter Grip
2. Swingyde
3. Impact Bag
4. Range Practice Ball
5. Plane EZ
6. Tac-Tic Wrist
7. Plane Stick
8. 1×2 Commercial Golf Mat
9. Swing Builder Fan
10. The 3-Club Tour with Hank Haney - DVD

Hopefully something on this list will help you iron out that last kink that has kept your game from reaching the next level this season.

Shop thousands of the world’s best golf training aids, golf books and golf DVDs at PracticeRange.com and feel free to email us to request a printed catalog of our featured products.

For our loyal and dedicated customers who check regularly to see what new and interesting golf insights we have on our Golf Practice Blog, we issue a hearty and much-belated… FORE!

Our goal is to bring you a post at least once a day, whether it be from our top-notch consulting golf professionals, from our highly-trained staff of golf retail specialists or from the world’s most up-to-date golf news.

Over the past several months, we have been upgrading and updating PracticeRange.com, and our blog site, golfpracticeblog.com, in order to serve you better. These efforts include moving our sites to a faster, more dedicated web server, establishing a unique domain for the blog, creating a print catalog, and adding some of the most sought-after golf training aids, golf books and golf DVDs to our product line.

If you are a returning customer and have placed new orders over the past several weeks, you’ll notice that our checkout system moves much faster. For our new customers, please take note: our e-commerce website is one of the most secure and trusted you will find on the web. We subscribe to the ScanAlert Hacker Safe system, we maintain a GoDaddy Secured Site certificate and we are memebers in good standing of the Better Business Bureau.

Welcome back to the Golf Practice Blog fellow golfers, we’re glad you’re here and we welcome your comments on any of our posts.

Shop thousands of the world’s best golf training aids, golf books and golf DVDs at PracticeRange.com and feel free to email us to request a printed catalog of our featured products.