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NEW Mission Hills Haikou.
Mission Hills has just opened its new multi course complex on the island of Hainan, near the capital of Haikou. A 10 course resort development, it follows the creed of bigger is better, with a multitude of offerings, all based on famous international designs, Melbourne sand belt courses featuring heavily in the influences. A 5 star luxury resort, with all the trappings will make this a premier golfing destination. See course reviews.
NEW Smoothy Micro Suspension Buggy
Smoothy once again appear to be leading the way in pull buggy design. Weighing only 8.7kgs and has the ability to fold down effortlessly in 5 seconds, this is the cream of the crop! Its compact design will fold down to 74 x 54 x 69 cm‘s. With Smoothy’s state of the art suspension system on all 3 wheels, along with premium steel ball bearings, this baby glides around the course with ease. It comes with little extras such as a sand dispenser, detachable seat with deep storage area and umbrella holder. You also have the ability to choose from a range of colours from Black, Blue, Silver, Red or White. Sadly for Bogey, it doesn't come in Bright Fluro Orange!
NEW Stonecutters Ridge
The eagerly anticipated Greg Norman-designed championship golf course at Stonecutters Ridge in Colebee has seen the final stages of construction completed – 14 of the 18 holes are fully established, with the remainder growing in over the coming months. Expected to open for play next year, Sydney’s first Greg Norman-designed course will be the showcase feature of this spectacular master planned community.
“There wasn’t a whole lot of earth moving we had to do here – you could actually just do your layout, put the greens in the right places and put your tees in there and just go with it”, said Greg Norman, on a recent visit to check the site’s progress mid last year. Norman fell in love with the site due to the movement in the terrain and the gaps between the ridges, which made it perfect for a golf course.
NB: Bogey Golfer has promised to review this course as soon as humanly possible!
NEW Taylormade Tour Preferred Irons
The Tour Preferred range comes in 3 styles to cater for golfers of all ability's.
The Cavity Back (CB) irons combine a forged face with a cast undercut cavity to deliver the feel of a forged iron with the forgiveness of a deep cavity back. Muscle Back (MB) is a player’s iron with minimal offset and no cavity to optimal feel for the golfer.
The Muscle Cavity (MC) delivers a shallow cavity combining forgiveness with the look and feel of a player’s iron. All irons have Precision Weighting Port to guarantee consistent swing weight throughout the set while also ensuring that the centre of gravity location is precisely and optimally positioned in the centre of the face between the toe and heel.
NEW Cleveland CG 16 Wedges
This wedge appears to be the love child of Cleveland Golf’s two more recent wedge releases, The GG14 and CG15.
Based on the forgiving shape and cavity back of the CG14 it also includes the laser milled face technology of the CG15 ensuring you can maximize the spin. As with the entire Cleveland wedge range the CG16 also has a wide constant width sole from heel to toe combined with heel and toe grinds’. This is designed to improve bunker performance while maintaining shot-making versatility.
Whilst the new CG 16 wedges feel great in hand, Bogey finds it hard to go past the more traditional shape of his CG15 wedges.
NEW Cobra Limited Edition ZL Driver
Only 500 of the Limited Edition ZL Drivers are available globally, and each is individually marked with a production serial number. The Limited Edition ZL Driver utilizes advanced multi-material construction and Adjustable Flight Technology and is paired with a high performance Fujikura Motore Speeder shaft. This exclusive product is ideal for the accomplished player who wants a collectible driver with Tour-caliber performance
Launchers Ultralight technology allows weight to be removed from the club without sacrificing swing-weight or flex profile. This is based on the theory that lighter and longer golf clubs produce faster head speed for more ball speed and greater distance.
The Ghost Series is comprised of three beautiful, tour-proven shapes designed to be exceptionally easy to aim, and therefore exceptionally easy to use to roll the ball down your intended line. All incorporate TaylorMade's Pure Roll insert technology to promote forward spin and smooth roll.
Adjustable Weight Technology in the Ghost Series putters means that all three have an adjustable club head weight that you can easily change, allowing you to customize the feel by installing either heavier or lighter weights. Ghost Series putters come with standardised 3.3-gram steel weights already installed. A weight kit with two 1.3-gram titanium weights and four 7-gram tungsten weights are available for purchase separately.
NEW Titleist 910 D3 Driver
NB: Bogey Golfer has now made this his Driver of Choice claiming, "it's the most forgiving driver I have ever had and allows me the control off the tee even though I'm a rubbish golfer!"
NEW Nike Golf VR Pro Cavity Irons
NEW TaylorMade R11 Driver - White is the New Black !
NEW Callaway's Razor Hawke Driver
