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• Precision Golf – Pro Shop – by Mark Smith

  
  

  Situated in the heart of Hong Kong Island, Precision Golf Pro-Shop offers members and Visitors of the South China Athletic Association Golf Driving Range a full range of professional golf services including custom club fitting using the world renowned Nakashima Golf Studio fitting method, club repair and refurbishment as well as the sale of golf training aids and accessories and of course golf instruction. Precision Golf is putting the Pro back in the name Pro-Shop with the only solely owned Golf Professional Pro- Shop in Hong Kong. Come and find out how we can help you to reach your golfing goals.

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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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• 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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• Xili Golf Club China – What a Gem!

  
  

  As mentioned yesterday on facebook and twitter, I was fortunate enough to be invited up to Xili Golf Club China for a round of golf with students.

  I hadn’t been up to Xili for a while and I thought it was worth mentioning here that their course condition is the best that I have seen it in and would recommend you take advantage of this if you get the opportunity of playing there.

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• Nakashima Golf goes SST Pure

  
  

  The fact is, no shaft is perfectly round, straight or stiff throughout its length. Despite modern manufacturing techniques every golf shaft, whether steel or composite, remains as unique as a fingerprint and cannot be fully analyzed until after the shaft has been manufactured.
  The PPOP, or principal planar oscillation plane, is the plane of assembly in which the shaft is the most stable when striking the ball.

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• SCAA Golf Driving Range re-opened

  
  

  The South China Athletic Association Golf Driving Range re-opened this week more than two weeks after a typhoon ripped down the right hand side net structure.
  A temporary net has been errected and a new structure will be built behind it. The construction is expected to take two months.

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