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May 23, 2005

Design Ian Poulter's pants for The Open

The fine folks at BBC Sport want you to design Ian Poulter's trousers for this year's Open Championship at St Andrews in Scotland.

Ian will wear the winning design on the opening day of the Championship on July 14, once his tailor has worked his magic.

Ian will be choosing the winner himself and tells BBC that he is after something funky or related to St Andrews...
editor's note: Oh the humanity!

Now that's what high-def TV was invented for...

Check out the official rules and download an entry form, complete with pants template at:
Design Poulter's Pants [BBC Sport]

Related link: Poulter defends dress sense

And one more: Poulter's Hair-Raising Experience

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March 31, 2005

TAG Heuer's Tiger Woods edition golf watch...

“Together with TAG Heuer designers, we have developed the one watch that I can wear on my wrist without adversely affecting my golf swing.” - Tiger Woods

"This is an extraordinary achievement," says Tiger, who extensively tested the TAG Heuer Professional Golf Watch prototypes and then wore the pre-series in the 2004 Boston PGA Tournament. “Now, for the first time, golfers can wear a watch in total comfort, and make a contribution to a great charity that helps youth at the same time. “Golf experts have always said that you should take your watch off before you step up to the tee, and TAG Heuer has proven them wrong. It's a great watch and a true pleasure to wear."

“Calling upon Tiger to collaborate on the design of the world's first-ever professional golf watch was an obvious choice,” comments Daniel Lalonde, TAG Heuer NA President and CEO. “Not only is he a world-class champion golfer, but since 2003, Tiger has played a key role in the design and development of a number of TAG Heuer timepieces, including the sold-out, Link Limited Edition Tiger Woods watch.”

The TAG Heuer Professional Golf Watch is based on a unique design that provides maximum comfort to the wearer. The clasp and folding buckle of a conventional watch are often awkward and can hurt the wrist while intensively playing golf. Also, the standard placement of the crown at 3 o'clock can interfere with the golfer’s motion and comfort when the wrist is bent. To overcome these obstacles, TAG Heuer developed a revolutionary patented system that integrates the clasp into the watch head, and also moved the crown across the dial from the 3 o’clock to the 9 o'clock position.

"Golfers have very specific reasons for not wearing a watch during play -- the added weight on the wrist, the strap being too loose or too tight, not to mention the intense demands the game puts upon the wrist,” continues Tiger. “Working systematically through these and other obstacles with TAG Heuer's amazing team of watchmakers, engineers and designers, we were able to address all of these concerns and overcome them."

Another challenge TAG Heuer addressed is that a regular watch often slides on the wrist, snagging on the golfer's glove and creating discomfort. If the watch is tight enough so that it won’t slide, it, too, becomes uncomfortable, since the wrist's diameter changes during the course of a game -- even during the course of a single swing. To combat these problems, TAG Heuer developed an exclusive, ultra-flexible silicon strap with amazing elasticity that eliminates any sliding. The strap also dampens any shock to the wrist and adapts its length to any change in wrist diameter.

Since regular watches are often too heavy and impede the golfer’s swing and putting precision, the TAG Heuer Professional Golf Watch is made of ultra-light titanium, stainless steel and silicon. The super-slim watch weighs only 55 grams, making it an astonishing 60% lighter than other TAG Heuer steel watches. This extraordinary slimness also makes the TAG Heuer Professional Golf watch one of the most elegant and dressy luxury square-shaped watches on the market. Concludes Tiger, "It’s so incredibly light, you literally forget it’s on your wrist -- until you need it."

More information: WatchNetwork.com

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March 30, 2005

Golf's latest trend... the shift in fashion

There was a time when you would look at Jesper Parnevik and say, "WTF is he wearing?" Lately, his attire is tame compared to what's been popping up on courses all over the PGA Tour.

I'd like to try some of these trendy duds myself, but given that my body type is less "Badds" and more "SignBoy", I think I'd end up looking more like a beach ball and less like a hip golfer.

"Golf has been dominated by talk of the Big Four and tournaments interrupted by weather. But another trend that can no longer be ignored is the latest shift in fashion.

Sansabelt pants were all the rage in the '70s.

The '80s were about colors and plaids that never seemed to work together and gave golf a bad reputation for having badly dressed men chasing a little white ball. Portraits of winners at The Players Championship hang from a wall at Sawgrass, and there was one stretch in the '80s that three out of four champions wore red pants.

Later down the row, it becomes obvious that golf went conservative in the '90s with solid pants and solid shirts.

And then Parnevik showed up." [ESPN.com]

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March 22, 2005

Hi-Tec CDT Golf Shoes: Golf's alternative to steroids?

(Original review done March 22) As if it's not bad enough that we carry a diagram of weight distribution configurations for our drivers, now it looks like some of us will have to do the same for our golf shoe cleat configurations.

The new Hi-Tec CDT golf shoes are said to employee proprietary cleat technology that makes the Hi-Tec CDT the "world's first game improvement golf shoe".

Endorsed by Irishman Padraig Harrington, who says the shoe has increased his ball speed from 166mph to 173mph (for a whopping 17.5 yards of distance increase), the shoe is the result of "two years of intensive research to perfect the shoe's biomechanics".

Are we buying any of this? You're probably not, but BogeyMan is a fool... so my review of the Hi-Tec CDT appears below (with follow-up updates to follow)...

For more info check out Hi-Tec online for yourself.

My initial thoughts on the Hi-Tec CDT Golf Shoes:

I finally had a chance to try these shoes last week and I have to say that I was impressed with the overall comfort and performance.

STYLING: There is no doubt that these are good looking traditional shoes and the quality and durability is easy to see. I look forward to seeing how they perform in wet conditions, but based on the construction I assume they will stay dry.

COMFORT: The Hi-Tecs come with two sets of insoles (regular and wide fit). I have always stayed away from the traditional golf shoes because of the narrow fit. My wide foot calls for a wide front (usually found in non-traditional golf shoes - i.e. Cyclonic, ECCO, etc...), but these traditional looking shoes fit nicely even with the regular fit insole.

If there was any discomfort, it was with the fact that the spikes on these shoes dig so deep that I found my feet catching ground when I was just walking up the fairway.

PERFORMANCE: While I didn't see (or expect) the marked improvement in distance that the shoes claim, I honestly did feel more balanced over the ball. I also felt that some thought did go into the shoe's design when it came to the golf swing and the body's weight shift from takeaway to follow through.

OVERALL: Probably not worth the price tag ($129), but still a very nice shoe. Comfort, quality, and performance are all above average.

UPDATED JUNE 17, 2005 - I was wrong. This shoe is very much worth the $129 price. Once I started wearing these regularly (and breaking them in), I couldn't switch back to some of my other shoes. They may not be the best looking in my collection, but they have now become the most comfortable golf shoes I own.

They stay dry in all conditions, and provide better support than I have ever gotten from a cleated shoe.

Try them, and you won't be sorry.

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February 12, 2005

Footjoy... different strokes for different folks...

It's interesting to browse the various manufacturers' sites for different countries to see just how diverse the offerings are. A great example is FootJoy who has very different lines based on what continent they're selling in.

Probably based on the dreaded focus groups and sales data, however, it would be nice if they offered a place online where you could purchase from any of their lines (it's 2005, think global internet marketplace).

These retro looking FJ's were found on their UK site (stylishly different, I think). Retro bowling shoe look made popular in the US, yet not available stateside. I'll continue looking for them online.

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February 05, 2005

Another try for IZOD...

Under yet another licensee, Izod launches their Izod-G line. With an emphasis on the Euro-centric look spreading on the links lately, this line comes at a right time. Will the products meet expectations and regenerate interest in the brand or will most of the product end up at the discount clearance outlet stores that you visit on the way to the beach this summer?

Check it out by visiting their somewhat clunky all-flash site... My suggestion for IZOD-G is to put together a simple and intuitive site that shows off your new products and not some design studio's flash skills.

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