Custom and personalised golf balls are the preferred gifts for all golf enthusiasts at Christmas or for any special occasion from a corporate golf day to a special golf event such as Nokia’s Golf in the City staged in Canary Wharf, London. As the number of online golf retailers expands – so does the supply of personalisation services such as Golfballs.co.uk who offer the Internet’s best value personalisation service on golf balls, bags, caps and towels in addition to low competitive rates on bulk orders for corporate golf days and events.

Historically, personalisation services were restricted to manufacturers like Titleist, Callaway and Srixon. With a ready supply of golf ball printers for small to medium sized companies on the market – the minimum order size has been reduced substantially to a dozen golf balls – suitable for the smallest of corporate events to stag dos, birthdays or even as Valentines or Christmas presents. To further increase the accessibility to personalised Golf Balls, online suppliers have developed their own custom build websites allowing orders to placed with ease – including the upload of images, logos and text with an option to preview before placing the order.

With Christmas fast approaching and everyone feeling the pinch from high inflation order your golf gifts online and make substantial savings compared to the high-street. If you are shopping for a golfer who has everything why not treat them to a customised item of golf equipment such as a personalised golf towel or Golf Bag? If you’re unsure why not purchase a gift voucher allowing the recipient to purchase at their discretion up to a predefined value you decide upon.

To make an online customised purchase from Golfballs.co.uk simply identify which brand of Golf Equipment and the quantity – followed by the type of personalisation required (text, logo or photo). Additional selections can also be made for selecting the font style and colour. All golf balls used for personalisation are brand new Grade A quality from top brands such as Confidence, Palm Springs, Nike, Callaway, Srixon and Forgan of St. Andrews. Large corporate events can also be catered for with a fast turnaround available on a range of own brands like Confidence and Palm Springs. Smaller orders can usually be despatched the same-day with the option for express next-working day delivery at a small additional cost.

If you’re looking to make an impact at a forthcoming corporate day why not consider kitting out all teams with personalised golf equipment – including company logo and individual names for the personal touch. If the event is offering prizes you should purchase an assortment of gifts from golf caps, shirts and shoes to main prizes of complete golf sets to professional coaching sessions at your local golf course.

The Sports HQ

We all know that golf ball speed is an important aspect of golf ball distance. It does not take a physics wizard to realize the relationship between them. Driving distance, swing speeds, golf ball velocity, advanced technology, we all know them. They are all geared to get your golf ball an inch closer to the pin. What does that mean? Yes, a chance for you to lower your golf score.

While Tiger Woods have been pumping irons in the gym and Annika doing swing training to improve the power off the club face, they all know the importance of it. But as far as golf ball technology is concerned, it no longer is the same old thinking of harder compression for longer distance.

Truthfully speaking, Coefficient of Restitution or C.O.R of Golf Balls have been increasing and making golf balls more resilient and produce more distance than ever. Getting it hard and fast will add additional speed and distance but you still have to depend on your technique, the golf ball materials and such to produce a further distance.

If we were to take a closer look, the capability of golf balls to not just depend too much on speed  to deliver distance came some time back when the solid golf balls began to dominate.

Yes, it would be wonderful to see your tee shots zoom past others and go down at break necking speeds. I would love mine to do that too. Technology have made it such that lower swing speed players can deliver outstanding distances despite having lack of swing speed by playing with the factors like compression, resilient and hardness.

No matter how much technology can offer us, we still got to realize and salute the well drilled golfing machines that bring the speed out of the golf balls. They can generate and control the distance and level the playing field any time.

You maybe able to generate amazing distance but if you do not know how to control them, it would be pointless as the game goes. Experience will tell you that not every hole is played the same way. There are many different approaches that you can bring to make the game more lively.

Let us not just concentrate on golf ball speed. Technology have given us a chance to keep up with the pros but it is still the skills that we have in us and the fitness to out run the 18 holed race.

Lavente Tan

Golf improvement exercises are a must if you expect to stay healthy and stay on top of your game.

It seems as if many golfer’s don’t care to take the time to get the proper exercise that they need How

do I know this. By doing a study of amatuer golfer’s over the past several months.

Golf has become an increasingly popular sport over the past few years You now see men and women

of all ages at the golf course practicing their swing “Relaxation” for many people is to simply go hit a

bucket of balls if they don’t have time to play the course.

Golf, like any sport, requires that you take care of your body by stretching head to toe before teeing up.

It’s important that you try to stay fit by maintaining a good workout regimine. However, unlike it’s easy

to get off track and let yourself go, but there are things that you can still do about it. Read this.

First Steps

Make sure to stretch thoroughly before you perform any exercise. This is important in order to prevent

injury and shorten your recovery time.

When stretching you should pretend that you’re actually taking a shot and slowly stretch your body in

one swinging motion. Go all the way through the swing until you’re slightly uncomfortable and then hold

it for a few seconds and relax and do the other side, but no bouncing. Bouncing can cause injury.

Once you do two reps of stretching on one side then turn and do it the same way on the opposite side.

You must stretch at least ten minutes before and after your workout This will help to prevent soreness

and muscle cramping. Don’t overdo it! Nothing’s worse than hurting yourself on your first workout. Take

your time and pace yourself Only you know what you can handle so keep your limitations in mind.

Remember that the competition is at the golf course, not in the gym.

You might consider hiring a golf fitness trainer, at least temporarily, in order to get you started on a regular

workout schedule. Your trainer will be able to give you specific exercises to do and will also help you to

map out different workout routines. Mixing up the types of exercises you’re doing is important to prevent

boredom. A fitness coach can get you off on the right foot.

How would you feel about a free consultation with one of the top golf fitness trainers in the country if he

was willing to skip his $150.00 an hour fee? Read on.

Joe Stewart
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The fundamentals of golf are very different than many other sports. Take baseball for example; when you are up at bat to make your swing, your job is to hit the ball as its thrown to you. In other words, the game is built around your reaction towards what someone else is doing. You cannot make your move until the pitcher throws the ball to you.

In golf, however, you are the boss. You are in charge of making every move. The ball just sits there, waiting for you to make your shot. And you are 100% responsible for every play that happens. You cannot blame a bad play on a pitch, another teammate, or any other excuse.

This is what makes golf so difficult, and yet so challenging and fun to play. And on top of that, you have people watching you, all in complete silence. Talk about the need for focus!

A Positive Mindset Goes A Long Way In Golf

Golf requires that you focus and think about every shot you take. Of course in our comparative analysis of the sport of baseball, those players have to think about the mechanics of their game too, but they have little time to really focus and concentrate on what they are doing, as opposed to golf. They are conscious of the pitcher and the person at bat, but everything else is reaction.

Golf requires so much attention to what you are doing that any type of negative thoughts or worries can have a dramatic effect on the quality of your game. Doubt can easily seep into your mind, especially if you are still a beginner. Once this happens, your body tenses up, you may get nervous, jittery, and the next thing you know your ball has landed in the rough. Consider it to be the equivalent of stage fright. Yes, golf can be this difficult.

How can you prevent negative thoughts and feelings from happening while playing on the course? The answer is extremely simple, yet may be difficult to learn.

All you have to do is take action, and do so faster than your mind can start to consider any negative consequences of making a bad swing. That’s the thing about golf – you can literally think your way into a slump.

Stick with the basics and focus on simple movements that are repetitive. Keep your body loose and as you are preparing for your shot, shift the weight of your body from foot to foot, back and forth. Wiggle your club a bit and just loosen up, have fun, and stop worrying about anything negative. Just learning how to play a stress-free game may be the hardest lesson you learn in golf.

There is also 2 more valuable tips on golf balls:

1. Keep your golf balls warm: Did you know that a ball will suffer the loss of distance if it is too cold? If you are playing during a cold day, hold on to a few balls inside of your coat pocket and handle them here and there to keep the balls warmed up. You can then alternate balls at each new tee so that you can start one that is warm.

2. Golf balls do not last forever: Golf balls have a shelf life. After approximately 1 year, you will lose distance with the same ball. It is best to keep track of how long you have had your Golf Balls to avoid using them stale. And remember, three-piece balls tend to lose their quality sooner than two-piece golf balls.

Max Lloyd
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In the chemistry of air pressure, turbulence, and aerodynamics, surface structures are vital physical element. History has it that there are things that seem to be peculiar on their make-up hundreds of years ago which eventually came up with a better composition based on scientific research. And a golf ball is the best paradigm of this theoretical stand in history.

During the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast of Scotland, most players used ancient apparatus in order to play the game in a more disorganized and informal way. Here, the first clubs and golf balls are made up of wood.

It was on 1618 that the feather golf ball was finally introduced. This was commonly known as the “Featherie”. This feather golf ball was a handcrafted ball made with goose feathers securely pressed into a horse or cowhide sphere. This is being done while the ball is still wet. After drying, the leather shrank and the feathers expanded creating a hardened ball.

But because these kinds of golf balls are specially handcrafted, they usually cost higher than the clubs. In doing so, only a few privileged people could afford to play golf during those times.

Next came the Guttie golf ball. This prehistoric kind of golf ball was made from the rubber like sap of the Gutta tree that can be found in the tropics. Normally, these Guttie balls can be easily shaped into a sphere when hot and eventually used as a golf ball. With its rubber nature, guttie balls can be cheaply reproduced and can be easily repaired by reheating and reshaping.

However, between the two earliest forms of golf balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther than the gutties. This is due to the smooth surface of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf ball to cover more distance.

With this new scientific analysis, the developers of golf ball finally came up with balls with the “dimples” that are predominant in modern golf balls nowadays.

Dimples are crafted into Golf Balls so as to reduce the aerodynamic drag, which will be acting on the ball if it were totally smooth. This is because smooth balls, when sailing through the air, leave a huge pocket of low-pressure air in its stir therefore creating a drag. With the application of drag, the ball slows down.

Hence, by having dimples on golf balls, the pressure differential goes down and the drag force is reduced. These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding the golf ball. This, in turn, forces the air to clasp the golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the warp created by the ball towards the back instead of flowing past it. This results to a smaller wake and lesser drag.

Dimples also help players to put backspin on a shot making the golf ball break off on the putting green.

The idea of putting dimples on golf balls can be traced back during the gutta percha phase. Coburn Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored ball encased in a gutta percha sphere. It was during this time when the players observed how their shots become more and more predictable as their balls turned rough from play.

When William Taylor applied the dimple pattern to a Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls finally took their modern form.

From then on, dimpled golf balls were officially used in every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf balls took its form with standard size and weight.

Today, there is an abundant selection of golf balls to fit different golf game and condition. There are golf balls that offer control, while some offer distance. In whatever ways golf balls vary, only one thing is common and known. Golf balls are not just elements of the sports arena; they are more than ever paradigm of a concept in physics.

Nicholas Tan
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