SMARTER LESSONS - Smarter Lessons is an internet-based lesson scheduling and student communications system that nearly eliminates phone tag, improves customer service by allowing students to schedule lessons via the internet 24 hours a day and reduces lesson no-shows by sending automatic email reminders to students.

Smarter Lessons is already being used by more than 1,000 golf teaching professionals in North America, including America’s Favorite Golf Schools and more than a dozen of the Golf Magazine Top 100 Teachers.

Smarter Lessons’ features include accessibility from anywhere with an internet connection, secure credit card validation, the ability to create financial reports and video swing analysis software. Smarter Lessons also provides the ability to check your schedule from a PDA or Smart Phone device while on the lesson tee.

Instructors can use Smarter Lessons to communicate with their students through email broadcasts and with Smarter Lessons newest feature called Smarter Students. Smarter Students allows the instructor to post comments, video drills and student video from lessons to a locker that the student may access for review at any time while connected to the internet. Smarter Students includes a Stat Tracker feature that allows the instructor to view students’ statistics and track their progress. (There is an additional per-student fee for Smarter Students.)

Best of all, there is no software to install, no long-term contracts and no expensive set-up fees. For more information, please go to www.smarterlessons.com or call 800-365-6492.

Z FACTOR PERFECT PUTTING MACHINE - The Z Factor Perfect Putting Machine dictates perfect path, face angle and pendulum swing during a putting stroke. The Perfect Putting Machine is adjustable between square-tosquare and four arcing strokes. The system also allows the user to create a consistent stance, ball position, and rhythm.

This is the putting trainer you have seen on tour telecasts. The Perfect Putting Machine’s patented design  allows for a user to find the putting stroke that is right for them and practice it consistently.

The Perfect Putting Machine works great indoors or on a putting green, and the user can actually stroke putts using their own putter.

Best of all, The Perfect Putting Machine does not require the user to apply heel or toe pressure against an inclined or curved surface like other training aids. Such pressure can actually cause improper muscle memory. The Perfect Putting Machine has been purchased by over 50 players on the PGA Tour.

FINALLY… A DRIVER BEGINNERS CAN HIT! - What is the most difficult club in the bag to hit? Traditionally, for beginners and novices, it has always been the driver. With the most length and least amount of loft, it is difficult for these players to get the ball into the air. In addition, with the low loft, it is very easy to impart sidespin, resulting in wildly curving shots. Most of us cringe when our students ask if they can hit with this particular club.

In fact, at this stage in a students development, encouragement and a certain amount of confidence are essential factors. This being the case, Tower Chang, president of GTS Golf USA, has come up with a novel driver, designed to allow beginners and novices to enjoy the thrill of hitting high and accurate drives. The new GTS driver features the largest face area of any driver in golf (larger than those made by major manufacturers), a 3-wood length, a 5-wood loft, and an offset design. Add it all up and you have the easiest-to-hit driver on the market.

“As a teacher, I observed that the driver was the toughest club for beginners to hit,” said Chang. “That’s when it dawned on me: why don’t we give them something that is super-easy to hit?” After thinking about it, the GTS drivers were born.

It’s also great for juniors and ladies, according to Chang. “They are not trying to hit the ball 300 yards,” he observed. “They just want to hit it. When they do, they are hitting the driver nice and high and far.”

The GTS driver has several advantages over regular fairway woods and drivers. The face is much larger, with, as Chang puts it, the largest sweet spot of any club in golf. Fairway woods have much smaller faces than regular drivers, so it is more difficult to make good contact. Regular drivers are also too difficult for beginners to hit, says Chang, because they are too long. The GTS driver has the length of a 3-wood to remedy this problem. And, the good thing about the GTS driver is that it conforms to USGA rules, making it legal for play.

“It also can serve as a good go-to driver for more advanced players when they need to put it in the fairway,” said Chang.

Fitting for the GTS driver is very simple. The teaching professional has the student make five swings, and they either can hit it or they can’t. With the way the GTS is designed, though, even the rawest of beginners should be able to have good success.

The GTS driver is sold only through golf professionals and not through offcourse golf shops. With a suggested retail value of $70, it is a very affordable club for beginners, juniors, and novices. Also, with the ease of use and the success almost everyone has in hitting this club, it makes it one of the best values in the game for these players.

There are currently three models, for men, women, and juniors. The professional is not required to carry any minimum inventory, and with the modest wholesale price, the professional can make a few extra dollars while providing a great club for his or her students to hit.

If you are interested in the GTS driver, you may contact GTS golf at (888) 838-5885 for more information, or through e-mail at gtsgolf@gmail.com.  The company’s website is www.gtsgolfusa.com.

PROOF OF OFF CENTERED HITS - On-Mark is a portable CFC free aerosol spray-on teaching product that shows the exact point of impact on the clubface, providing feedback for the teacher and student. The powder does not affect ball flight or spin and wipes off easily with a dry towel. Spray a small amount on the grass or mat and read swing path errors. Great on putters too. Each application is good for 5 or 6 hits and a can lasts for over 100 applications!! Your students will be quick to order from you for their practice sessions, increasing you profits. This product comes in 24 can pop up display and retails for $10.99 up. Regular wholesale $5.95 U.S. Exclusive introductory offer to WGTF members $4.95 U.S. For more information, please call 1-888-466-6275 or Email: info@on-markusa.com.

SSR FlexBands - 2006Rookie of the Year Trevor Immelman and golf fitness coach Dave Herman will show
you tailor-made golf specific exercises and techniques that target the muscles and movements in the game of golf, using SSR FlexBands.

The SSR FlexBands are compact and can be used anywhere from your home, to the office, to a hotel room and even on the practice range. The bands are used in a variety of professional settings for strength training, to explosive speed work, to stretching and rehab. The bands are made out of a special latex rubber and come in different widths with the wider bands providing greater tension.

These bands are being used by players and teams in all sports and divisions of the NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, and on the Professional Tours. The bands were founded and developed by Coach Dick Hartzell of Jump Stretch, Inc.

Testimonial: “These bands have enhanced my speed, flexibility, and power. There is no doubt they have helped take my fitness to the next level.” – Trevor Immelman, 2006 Tour Rookie of the Year.

For more information, please log onto www.g2fitness.com.

Get Connected Training Aid
CONNECTION: No one really talks about it, but it is the one thing that all Pros have in common and almost all amateurs’ lack. If you are not connected, you are going to have a whole host of problems from every shot on the golf course. If you want to play better golf, you have to GET CONNECTED, engaging your “big” muscles in the golf swing.

PROBLEM – Connection is difficult to teach. Connection is a difficult thing to teach because it is a “feeling” associated with engaging the large muscles that must be “felt” to be understood. If you do not “experience” the feeling of “being connected” then you cannot repeat it on the golf course.

SOLUTION – The Perfect ConneXtion instantly allows you to feel the Perfect Connected Swing the very first time you use it. For most golfers it’s like a “light bulb going on” as they feel what the Pros feel from every shot on the golf course. Once you are able to “get connected” and engage the “big muscles” you eliminate many errors caused by overcompensation by the small muscles. The result is incredibly long and accurate shots from everywhere on the golf course.

A simple yet extremely beneficial swing trainer that gets you connected for more powerful drives, for more accurate
pitch and chips, and for more reliable putts – Perfect ConneXtion.

www.perfectconnextion.com

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