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Our friends over at the Hackers Paradise are putting on another totally awesome contest.

Here’s a link to the forum with the details.

The Hackers Paradise – OnPar GPS Giveaway

It’s pretty simple to enter the drawing.

1. Be a registered member of the forum (free and takes like two seconds)
2. Answer the three scavenger hunt questions
3. Wait to see if you’re picked

The GPS looks amazing, no annual membership, over 300 courses on the unit at one time, touch screen… drool..

Hopefully I can get my hands on one of these soon!

Have a great weekend!

Golfballnut.com is running a Halloween special on Titleist Pro-V1′s.

They’re selling a dozen near mint recycled Titleist Pro-V1′s for $14.55. If you add the coupon code twitter5, they’ll take an additional 5% off the order bringing it down to $13.82.

I chose ground shipping and it brought the total price up to $20.65.

That’s not a bad haul for 20 bucks! I’ve ordered from these guys before and I was very impressed with the quality of the golf balls. There was only a couple balls that had any visible imperfections. About 1/2 the golf balls were logo golf balls.

What’s your stance on refurbished golf balls?

-Dave

The 2nd Annual Future Stars Foundation Pro-am is happening on February 20th, 2010 over at Errol Estates Country Club.

The price per person is $200 and it includes a round of golf and dinner.

The tournament is going to be a modified bramble format, where one pro will be paired up with three amateurs. I don’t know what the exact modifications are, but I’m thinking everyone plays the best drive, the three amateurs will continue in a scramble format whilst the pro plays out her ball.

The pros are also playing for a $4,000 cash purse and the winning team(s) will receive great gifts and prizes.

I asked the tournament organizer, Dave Andrews, what his definition of “amateur” was and he said, “an “amateur”  will be anyone who I say is an amateur!” The goal here is not necessarily to get the best of the best out there as much as it is to get a full field of amateurs to match up with the pros.

There will be 28 players from the Duramed Futures Tour and they have room for 84 amateurs.

John from intothegrain.com and I will be participating in the event as amateurs and looking forward to it!

This would be a great opportunity to meet some of the future LPGA players and one day when you’re old and grey, you can tell your grandchildren about it!

Let me know if you’ve plans to attend!

-Dave

About Future Stars Foundation

The Future Stars Foundation has been established to support and foster the growth of the sport of women’s golf in the United States. In order to do that, the foundation’s primary goal is to raise money to provide financial assistance in the form of grants to players on the Duramed FUTURES Tour.

The fine folks over at Evolve Golf were kind enough to send me a few package of Epoch tees to try out and write about. They sent them to me about two months ago and sorry to say, I’m a little late in reporting in.. sorry about that fellas, appreciate your patience!

I realize now that the reason it’s taken me so long to write about them is because, well, it’s difficult to review a tee! Obviously it’s not difficult to stick a tee in the ground put a ball on top and crank it, well, the cranking is…, but it’s difficult to measure the improve performance that’s a result of using the tee.

So, to begin, Epoch tees are currently used by many of golf’s elite players and have netting 123 wins on tour globally with 46 of those being PGA Tour victories.

They say that making the switch to Epoch tees can add three to 12 yards in distance, depending on your swing speed. You can go to their website Evolve Golf, click on the performance tab, select your swing speed and it’ll give you the yardage you can gain by using their tee. I thought this was a pretty cool feature. So for me, wielding a swing speed of 103 mph, I should see a distance increase of between 5 & 9 yards… And I can say with confidence that yes, on certain drives, I saw an increase in distance, but conversely on certain drives, I saw a decrease in distance.. No fault of the tee, I assure you, it’s the hacker in the tee box that’s to blame. This is where it’s hard to gauge the improved performance..

The increased performance is due to the lower friction between the ball and tee and the lower friction is made possible by the radius posts on the tee that span the width of a golf ball dimple.

The tees are made out of recycled and bio-degradable materials and are ten times more durable than wood tees. As a matter of fact, I haven’t broken a single tee since I made the switch.

Here’s a new feature that I think is pretty awesome. It’s called the sweet spot system and what it’ll do is give you a reference point on how high to tee the ball,  based on the type of driver you’re using. Now, this is supposed to be available for every type of tee that they sell, but the batch I received didn’t have those marker circles. It leads me to believe that either it’s something you’ve got to specifically ask for or it’s something new that wasn’t around when I was sent the tees. Either way, it seems like a good thing, you put in driver info, make, model, hand, sex, etc.. and it’ll show you which marker circle you should be using.

The tees come in three sizes, depending on your tee height preference. The longest is 3 1/4″, the shortest is 1 1/2″ and the mid is a 2 3/4″. They also offer an option to add your company label the golf tees.

So, if you get a chance, check out the website, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

-Dave