‘Make this investment,’” says PGA Professional Rob Stocke, the director of
instruction at Golf Club of Georgia and user of The Golf Mat. “We use golf
mats at our facility when we’re overseeding, when we have large outings,
anytime there’s any maintenance on the range. With traditional golf mats,
players will walk up to them, see they’re traditional golf mats and walk away.
With The Golf Mat, players actually come out to practice more. They enjoy
hitting off them. They’re going to be able to hit balls longer than with
standard mats, so you’re going to increase revenue by people coming out
there. And you’re going to save the grass that you have around your practice
range.”
New this year is The Radar, an exciting launch monitor product that can be
used on its own or as part of an instructor’s dream combination with The Golf
Mat. National Golf Products worked with Zelocity’s proven management
team to develop The Radar, which uses Doppler radar to measure the flight
characteristics of a golf shot 100,000 times in the first six to eight feet of its
flight. National Golf Products has designed The Radar to be accurate enough
for instruction and clubfitting, yet simple enough for a student to use for
practice sessions. All the student needs to do is use a button on the front of
The Radar to select which club he or she is hitting, and the unit does the rest.
The Radar provides ball speed and carry distance for each shot, providing
feedback that will help instructors and players learn their distances for each club in the bag.
“Some systems are very complex and give you too much information. The Radar gives
you your carry distance, and that’s the most important piece of information for an average
player,” says PGA Tour professional Vijay Singh. “By creating a baseline for how far you hit
each club in your bag, you establish a better way to practice. GPS rangefinders are great, but
if you don’t know how far you hit each club then you’re not getting any help at all.”
As wonderful as The Radar and The Golf Mat are individually, they can make a major
impact when used together. The combination of The Golf Mat’s realistic hitting conditions
and The Radar’s reliable feedback makes for a low-cost, easy-to-install teaching and
clubfitting center at any golf facility that sets up in as little as two minutes. The Golf Mat and
The Radar can be used outdoors on your practice range or indoors. Because The Radar only
needs a maximum of eight feet to calculate ball flight data, you can use it and The Golf Mat
anywhere you can set up a hitting net. That means extending the teaching season year-round
– you’ll never have to cancel a lesson due to weather again, and cold-weather facilities can
keep giving lessons through the dead of winter.
In addition, NGP is making it simple and easy to earn additional revenue by becoming an
authorized dealer and just referring customers – no need to keep inventory! Here’s how it
works: Log on to PGALinks.com and visit the My PGA Benefits area. To become an
authorized dealer all you have to do register your contact information and purchase any
The Golf Mat provides cost benefits
to your facility
In addition to the benefits found by players and
teachers, The Golf Mat also has cost benefits for your
facility. First, the unique design of The Golf Mat helps
it to avoid the full brunt of impact. This dramatically
increases the lifetime of The Golf Mat’s turf. Some
synthetic turf manufacturers attempt to increase the
life of their turf by making the turf fibers longer. Not
so with The Golf Mat, which features a short-bladed,
long-wearing turf that hits like a real fair way – and will
outlast other hitting mats. If you already have mats at
your facility, there’s no need to get rid of them.
Instead, you can use them as stance mats for use with
The Golf Mat.
As PGA Professional Rob Stocke says, “The Golf
Mat’s going to last a lot longer than standard golf
mats because it’s not going to wear out. It’s actually
giving with the force of the golf club. It’s also not
going to wear you out, and it’s not going to wear your
clubs out.”
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