Over the Green

TipTeeToe Golf Shoes for Women

A often overlooked principle for making a good golf swing is good balance. Proper balance promotes transfer of weight during the swing and leads to more distance and consistency.

Now lady linksters can buy the first wegde soled golf shoe designed to promote good balance. The TipTeeToe not only helps achieve better while providing stability at address and at impact but they are stylish, attractive and as the company says they, “segue easily from the golf course to the concourse.”

Micky Gallas, President of TipTeeToe said, “We are excited to unveil our new 2012 Low Wedge design at the PGA Show this year. We were the first company to come out with a stylish yet effective wedge technology that positively affects posture at every stage of the golf swing. Our shoes are USGA conforming for competition and they look great and perform well on the course. Women will find they have better balance when wearing our wedge shoe and that will have a significant impact on their golf game. Our mission is to grow the game through innovative footwear.”

Color combinations include: white/red, black/hot pink, white/black, black/white and solid black and each pair comes with built-in ball markers and color coordinated straps. They are available on line at tipteetoe.com for $149.

Izzo Golf’s Swami 3000 is really worth consideration when compared to the crowded field of more expensive golf GPS units.

It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of a $300 unit advertised by one or more of golf’s beautiful people. It is though, a good basic way to know the distance to the front, back and center of the green…for a suggested price of $99.99 and no annual fee or course downloading. It comes with 19,000 courses in North America preloaded.
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by ED TRAVIS
Dawgs Golf hit the golf shoe market with lightweight golf shoes that could be described as non-conventional.

Regardless the on course models were well received and they have followed up with the Golf Crossover billed as “high-comfort ultra-soft men’s and women’s casual and before-and-after-golf shoes.”

The rubber outsole has nubs so they can be worn while playing too but the big difference is the very comfortable insole and canvas upper. There are men’s and women’s models, both for $50 a pair.

Tiger’s return
Tiger Woods finish at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, his first tournament since May, was just that – a finish. As expected his game was not sharp and the T-38 in the 76-man field, in which there was no Friday cut, has some flashes of his former greatness. The best news for Tiger-fans though was his physical injuries seem to be all healed and he says he is enthusiastic about playing.

With the PGA Championship this week he obviously is looking to improve his competitiveness and get more “reps” to use his word for tournament rounds.

Both he and former caddie Steve Williams (on winner Adam Scott’s bag – talk about poetic justice) were questioned over the circumstances surrounding Woods firing Williams with Williams relating a different version than Woods. And under the heading extreme trivia, Woods wore for the first time plastic cleats in a pair of Nike prototype golf shoes based on a training shoe the company had made for him for use during his rehabilitation.

New shoes
Speaking of shoes, adidas Golf has extended their very popular TOUR360 line with the TOUR360 ATV and says it is “the company’s most technologically-advanced shoe to date.”

“This shoe takes all of the advancements of the TOUR360 line and pushes it one step further,” said Kevin Ross, VP adidas Golf. “We’ve taken feedback from our Tour players and combined it with our experience from the previous four versions to make ATV even better – the best performing TOUR360 yet.”

ATVs (All-Terrain Versatility) have a 10-spike sole specifically designed for stability and traction on uneven ground. The MSRP is $190 and they will be in shops Sept. 15.

Those who fly a lot with golf clubs know that Club Glove Last Bag is makes the best golf club travel bag period. It’s designed correctly, durable and easy to wheel through airports or any where else.

Jeff Herold, founder of West Coast Trends makers of the Last Bag, applies high standards to each product sold by his company with the most recent example being the TRS Ballistic luggage. It is not inexpensive but it is for the traveler who needs the easiest to pack and toughest bags engineered to place their center of gravity so less effort is needed to pull them. MORE…

The TaylorMade TR3 Speed Sleeve isn’t going to make you rich or better-looking or divine the Powerball winning numbers; it is however one of those clever ideas that will help your golf game. MORE…

Best of two worlds

Bushnell enjoys the reputation of being the gold standard of laser range finders. In fact, a large majority of touring professionals and their caddies use Bushnell devices to measure distances during practice rounds to ensure accurate club selection during competition.

The new Bushnell Hybrid goes a step further by combining a GPS yardage system with the laser.

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Those in the category of golf traditionalists are apt to at least frown when some of the modern styles appear on the course. Caps worn backwards, cargo shorts and flip flops don’t cut it unless worn by a six-year old. Therefore when confronted with a new golf shoe that bears a resemblance to the ubiquitous Crocs…well, you can understand.

Billed as the ‘World’s Lightest Golf Shoe’ Dawgs do have however some positive attributes and one of them is the weight. They are very light as promised, only about 7 ounces but best of all they are very comfortable due to a closed cell resin used in the sole to protect the heel and foot. Add a molded arch support and nine spike outsole and they are good alternative to traditional golf shoes. MORE…

There’s an old golf adage that says a good swing starts with a good grip. Even the best player of all time, Jack Nicklaus, thought that was true. Each year prior to start of the PGA Tour season the Golden Bear would visit Jack Grout, his mentor and coach since he was a boy, and they would go back to basics in order to prepare for the new year. The first basic Nicklaus and Grout checked? His grip.

If Nicklaus thought the grip was that important then the average weekend warrior should certainly pay attention.

Want more proof? In perhaps the most iconic golf instruction book ever, Ben Hogan’s “Five Lessons The Modern Fundamentals of Golf,” the Hawk devotes 19 pages to the grip. Any teaching professional will tell you what Hogan said in that 1957 opus is just as true today.

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Adidas Golf’s slogan has always been intriguing. “We make equipment you play” can be taken not only as a fact but a mission statement too, kind of a cocky, pugnacious approach applied not to golf clubs or balls but to shoes, shirts and jackets.

The portion of the golf market for so called soft goods is competitive, intensely competitive but adidas has always stood for quality and performance and innovation. So for 2010 they are breaking new ground by introducing a top of the line shoe and apparel brand named adiPURE that is sure to attract a lot of attention. MORE…