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Puetz Golf Price $349.95
The latest entry into the golf GPS market, GolfLogix is manufactured by Garmin, the world leader in GPS, making it the most accurate and reliable system available. With thousands of worldwide golf courses available to download, the Golf Logix delivers instant distances to the front, center and back of greens plus [...]
Puetz Golf Price $299.95
The Bushnell Medalist delivers superb and accurate performance to +/- 1 yard from 10 to 1500 yards away at the touch of a button. Powered by a 9-volt battery, the lightweight Medalist boasts a 4x magnification and features a rubber armoring, making the product easy to grip. Weighing just 9 oz., [...]
Puetz Golf Price $349.95
The Sky Caddie SG4 is for the avid golfer who wants advanced features, a larger display and a long-lasting rechargeable battery. The SG4 includes SkyGolf’s patented IntelliGreen technology, enabling golfers to measure the full depth and shape of the green from any angle of approach and shows distances for all targets [...]
White stakes... red stakes... sprinkler heads... who needs 'em?
The days of pacing off your distance to the pin or, even worse, taking a wild guess at it are over with one of the latest range finders in your arsenal. In 2006, the USGA made them legal to use in handicapping and tournament play, as long [...]
Puetz golf Price $499.95
The lighter-than titanium, carbon-composite Callaway FT-i (Fusion Technology-Inertia) has a slightly larger, more squared face than the Sumo2 and the sound at impact is uniquely pleasing (sort of like a Little League baseball bat.) The 460cc FT-i also allows for three different CG locations for reducing a slice/fade, maximum workability or [...]
Puetz golf Price $299.95
Upgraded from 2006, Cleveland’s entry into the MOI race doesn’t pull the weight to the corners, but rather stretches the entire club out, while scooping the top to stay under the USGA’s 460cc max. Cleveland jacks up the options with a two-shaft fitting system. GOLD (Standard Trajectory) is designed to increase [...]
Puetz golf Price $399.95-$799.95
While the Superquad is more conventionally shaped, Taylor Made ramps up the MOI by utilizing four movable weight screws, allowing for 978 center of gravity (CG) locations. In promoting its inverted-cone face technology, Taylor Made goes deeper into club jargon with eMOI (effective MOI), the combined effects of the club’s MOI [...]
Puetz Golf Price $399.95
The most hyped driver since the Big Bertha, the Sumo2 (Super Moment of Inertia Squared) lays claim to the highest MOI on the market. With its nearly 5-inch-square head, bright yellow paint job and explosive sound on impact, the Sumo2 leads the way into a new era of driver technology. With a [...]
Never has a club innovation had the golf industry buzzing (or “holding its breath” as Puetz General Manager Michael Livingston put it) like the high MOI (Moment of Inertia) driver. Not cavity back irons, square grooves, broomstick putters or hybrids.
It’s been, oh, about 100 years since the basic shape of the driver has changed. [...]
Nick's Nets
www.nicksnetworks.com
You just saw a great tip on the Golf Channel. But the range is closed and your wife will kill if you break another lamp swinging your wedge in the living room. That’s where Nick’s Nets ($199.99) comes in. Whether you use the drop-down model conveniently attached to your garage door, or the free-standing [...]
Peak Vision Sunglasses
www.peakvisionsports.com
Specifically engineered for the golf course, Peak Vision Sunglasses ($119-$249) are proof that proper shades aren’t just a fashion statement but an essential part of your equipment. Standard polycarbonate sunglasses are single filter — they shield the sun but usually reduce depth perception and visual clarity. Peak Vision’s NXT lenses serve a dual [...]
Extreme Greens
www.extremegreen.ca
Unless you live on a fault line, you’re not going to get much break on the living room carpet. So how do you emulate real putting conditions when you can’t get to the course? There are plenty of synthetic putting green makers, but Extreme Greens offers something the others don’t: adjustability. The modular system [...]
Drive-Tru Driver
www.daygolf.com
You’ve closed your stance, hooded the club and you’re staying behind the ball. But you’re still slicing it. What’s the problem? Maybe it’s your club. Try Day Golf’s DRIVE-TRU golf club. Once you get past its, um, “unique” round shape — a bit like those Power Pods from the 80s — you’ll find its [...]
Save Around the Sound
Looking for great value, excellent benefits and real return on a small investment? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, if you have an Oki Golf Players Card, all the above is a reality — and you get to play golf while you enjoy all those benes.
In 2003, Oki Golf [...]
Caddysak
www.caddysak.com
No more using your shirt tail to wipe off your grimey golf ball, not with the convenient Caddy Sak ($8.95) clipped to your belt. With a waterproof outer shell and an absorbent inner lining, the inside is moistened for cleaning while the outside stays dry. A dirty ball is inserted in top, scrubbed and pushed [...]
Seventy-eight Champions Tour professionals will descend on picturesque TPC Snoqualmie Ridge on Aug. 24-26, hoping to grab a piece of the $1.6 million purse at the Boeing Classic, back for its third year as the only PGA Tour stop in the Puget Sound.
In 2006, Tom Kite shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday but needed [...]
Thousands of adults play golf around the Puget Sound. Lots of kids do, too. The Pacific Northwest Junior Golf Association brings the two groups together.
Like many junior programs, the PNJGA offers clinics and camps for kids, but the real innovative aspect of the non-profit organization is the focus on getting families together through the game [...]
4-in-1 Golf Club System
www.shortgametravelclubs.com
The boss is sending you to Cleveland but you won’t have time for a round. And who wants to lug their clubs to the airport just to chip and putt in the hotel room? The 4-in-1 Golf Club System easily fits in a standard suitcase. Screw the grip shaft section into the [...]
Premier Golf, which manages Interbay, Jefferson Park, Jackson Park and West Seattle, has been busy this past year improving and modernizing its four Seattle-area operations.
“We finished work on the driving range at Jefferson and remodeled the banquet halls at both Jefferson and West Seattle,” says company president Bill Schickler. “We added a new retractable [...]
Businessman, and now developer, Bob Screen endured the long and winding road to get his golf course built. But not that it's here, the effort seems entirely justified.
Cynthia Dye McGarey talks about her career and her first solo design in the U.S. with Kingston’s White Horse.
With a handful of manufacturers having a tight stranglehold on the multi-million dollar golf club market, you might wonder why anyone would try and start up their own clubmaking operation.
Well, the guys at Woodinville-based Upswing Golf feel like they have a unique angle on the business, with the goal of making the game more affordable.
Swinging a golf club with a broken left hand is like kicking a football with a broken toe or pitching a baseball with a cut on your finger.
A “golf experience” … it’s a phrase often used on
golf course
web sites but rarely delivered. It’s the idea that a round of golf can be more than a collection of tee shots, pitches and putts. A “golf experience” is a more visceral connection with the natural environment, sharing your epic surroundings with friends and family, an event that will live in your memory for years, one that you’ll still talk about even after you’ve played dozens of other golf courses.
Yardage is from the Sand tees, or white tees, generally played by most golfers
NO. 1: Par 4, 465 yards
Puget Sound
It’s in honor of the body of water that is the dramatic backdrop for the course and the hole.
NO. 2: Par 4, 366 yards
Foxy
Fox Island is off to the left. It also reminiscent of the [...]
By Tony Dear, CG Contributing Writer
One hundred seventeen years ago, Old Tom Morris was handed four guineas by the Royal County Down Golf Club in Northern Ireland and instructed to build a championship-caliber course over the club’s heaving sand dunes just outside the town of Newcastle. With a few shovels and the equivalent of about [...]
When all the golf course designs had been submitted for the proposed Chambers Bay course in early 2004, Bruce Charlton, partner in the famed Robert Trent Jones design company, wanted to leave one final impression on the Pierce County decision makers. He handed out bag tags that read: Chambers Bay — Site of the 2020 U.S. Open.
Spin Milled Wedges
Puetz Golf Price $109.95
Vokey Design Spin Milled wedges provide a truly discernible performance option — increased spin. With 30% more groove volume than a conventional wedge, Titleist has developed a tight tolerance groove that results in increased spin on full and partial wedge shots. A special circular cutting tool creates precise [...]
Wedge and Zip Grooves
Puetz Golf Price $109.95
The CG12 combines classic design with advanced manufacturing. The grooves are milled to maximum conforming dimensions using a proprietary CNC mill bit to create envelope-stretching geometry. The new groove geometry was coupled with an innovative plating process — making ZIP Grooves Cleveland Golf’s most consistent and precise [...]
Puetz Golf Price $169.95
Nike Golf’s newest footwear technology keeps you grounded, resulting in better balance, smoother weight transfer and a stronger push through impact. The Nike Power Channel divides the sole into two sections. The softer material of the Medial (inside) Push Plate flexes independently, keeping the driving surface of your foot on the [...]