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• Featured Golf Training Aid – The Smart Stick

  
  

  The Smart Stick is a golf swing training tool that provides continual, visual feedback throughout the entire swing. It utilizes green lasers and an innovative wrist bar that will teach you the flat left wrist at the top of your swing, how to hinge your wrist 90 degrees as well as how to maintain club head lag on the downswing. With the green lasers the Smart Stick can be used indoors as well as outdoors.

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• Looking for a new image for the New Year?

  
  

  Golfers have been known for their flashy clothing and accessories. (pastel pants, white belts and wild headcovers) If you want to add some attitude or pizzazz to your game without committing a fashion faux pas, check out the new Shaft Skinz you can apply to your golf shafts.

  Currently, the Shaft Skinz comes in 7 styles, each having several color options – Champaign Bubbles, Camouflage, Confetti, Fire Flames, Puzzle Pieces, Skull & Cross Bones and Snake Skin.

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• Have you set your Golfing Goals for 2010?

  
  

  It’s that time of year when we reflect back over the year and ask ourselves what have we really achieved. Did my golf game improve? Is my scoring improving? Has my swing improved? Did my putting average come down at all? How about my percentages of greens hit in regulation?

  The new year presents a perfect opportunity for you to evaluate where your game is heading, think about what the game really means to you and set some new objectives for the coming season.

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• Mark Smith Golf lessons go digital with V1 GOLF

  
  

  Mark Smith Golf has joined forces with V1 Golf – the leader in golf swing anlysis software to allow online transfer of video used during your lessons and your own online locker to store videos that can be viewed wherever you have an internet connection.

  Giving lessons a Digital Life
  Instantly receive YOUR V1 lessons to your computers, Smartphones (iPhones, Blackberry and others) and Facebook™ pages where you can easily share your videos.

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• President of Nakashima Golf visits Hong Kong

  
  

  Mr. John Nakashima president of Nakashima Golf dropped into Hong Kong for a two day visit before moving on to the region for further product development. John together with Gary Nakashima a Master Club builder and head of product development spent time with our local Master Mr. Victor Cheung to explain the recent addition of SST Pure shaft analysis and alignment system to the already renowned Nakashima Golf fitting and manufacturing process.

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• Q – I’m interested in fitting my clubs but I’m not sure if my swing is consistent enough. How do I know if my swing is stable enough for club fitting?

  
  

  A – Club fitting is about engineering a set of clubs or a single club relative to your physique and individual swing. For newer golfers it is more about getting the correct club length and lie angle to allow you set up in an athletic stance and matching a shaft flex, and weight and a clubhead design and loft to aid getting the ball airborne. Further characteristics such as grip size will aid in improved control of the golf club. For intermediate or advanced golfers it’s more about dialing in on characteristics such as shaft deflection point and spin rates particularly in the woods and driver club to maximize carry distance and incremental difference in distance between clubs.

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• The Power of the Launch Monitor in Club Fitting

  
  

  Perhaps the biggest development in golf club fitting in recent years is the addition of the launch monitor. The launch monitor provides vital data of both the golf ball and club head prior to, during and following ball impact.

  The following data is compiled by the launch monitor after each shot.
  - Clubhead speed
  - Ball speed
  - Dynamic loft (loft of the clubhead at ball contact)
  - Launch angle (the angle the ball is launched when leaving the clubface)
  - Club head path
  - Clubface angle
  - Angle of attack of the clubhead
  - Rate of ball back spin and side spin
  - Displacement of the ball during and after flight
  - Carry and total distance
  - Efficiency or smash factor

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• Equipment paths the way for junior golfers

  
  

  Choosing the right clubs for your child to golf with is an important step towards their love or hate for the game. I see too many junior golfers in the driving range and at the course using clubs that are too long, too heavy, too upright in lie angle, and too stiff in the shaft.

  Parents often buy clubs thinking that their son or daughter will grow into them just like buying clothes however, with golf, growing into your clubs is a very painful and unrewarding experience. Trust me – I’ve been through it.

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• The lesson before your first golf lesson

  
  

  So you’ve just picked up golf and thinking of finding an instructor and facility to try your hand. There are a number of considerations you must make before booking your first lesson.

  Firstly you must know that Hong Kong is not the exactly the easiest place in the world to take up the game, however if you don’t mind to travel about a bit then you’ll be fine.

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• Kowloon Tong Primary School now offering golf

  
  

  Since the emergence of the young Tiger woods, the game of golf has changed from a rich peoples game the elderly play wearing funny clothes to a funky fresh faced sport for the young and of course all the way to the elderly. Golf worldwide is changing. Is it for the good or for the bad?

  For the good of course. Junior Golf in Hong Kong is growing stronger and stronger and given the recent results from our juniors playing internationally, Hong Kong may well one day produce its own Tiger.

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