Chromax Golf introduces 'Distance' High-Energy Titanium Core ball

New 90 compression metallic ball provides optimal trajectory, distance and visibility

Chromax Golf (chromaxgolf.com) manufacturers of the patent-pending metallic finish golf balls, is introducing Chromax Distance to its line of High Visibility Technology golf balls. 

Distance, the company's first 90-compression ball, is designed for players of all abilities with Chromax's high-energy titanium core and patented dimple design that optimizes trajectory, distance and spin.

"We tested the Chromax Distance at a highly respected industry testing laboratory in San Diego and the results showed that at a club head speed of 90 mph, the total distance (carry & roll) equaled the major brands," said Stuart Lin, founder of the Chromax Golf Company and inventor of the Chromax golf ball. "When the Chromax Distance was tested at a field average of 108 mph, it outperformed the major brands."

The Titanium inner core provides maximum energy transfer at all swing speeds.  Golfers get that "Tour" player experience when they feel the Chromax Distance ball releasing "hot" off the clubface.

The soft cover allows the better player to shape shots with optimal spin and take dead aim at the pin.

On the green, the metallic illuminating color of the Distance gives players more confidence in "seeing the line" and making more putts. More distance, better shot-shaping and improved putting equal lower scores. Chromax Distance is approved by the USGA and the R&A.

Chromax Distance Features and Benefits:

Inner Core
The high-energy large titanium core is made of a poly-butadiene rubber compound blend and molded to create superior feel, durability and elasticity.

Outer Cover
The translucent soft Durable and stain-resistant Surlyn® cover provides soft feel in and around the green. The High Visibility Technology Metallic layer helps reflect sunlight providing excellent visibility in all lighting conditions allowing golfers to easily track the ball in flight and on the course. The illuminating color assists golfers in seeing the line and improves putting.

Dimple Design

The patented 482-dimple design optimizes trajectory, distance and spin while providing optimal control.

Compression and Spin Rate:

90 compression and Medium spin rate

Price and Availability:

The new Chromax Distance ball is available now with a suggested retail price of $42 per dozen.

Colors:

Electric Green and Galactic Gold   

For more information on Chromax Golf balls, visit ChromaxGolf.com.   

ABOUT CHROMAX GOLF 

Chromax Golf is located at 3468 Sunshine Canyon Drive in Boulder, Colo., 80302. The company was launched at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando in 2007. Chromax Golf is located at 3468 Sunshine Canyon Drive in Boulder, Colo., 80302. Chromax also manufacturers the M1x (75 compression) and M2x (85 compression) USGA approved golf balls. Both styles have a florescent reflective layer under a clear translucent layer, like the Distance. The balls are produced in seven easy-to-track colors (silver, gold, orange, yellow, pink, green and purple) and come in two different finishes that offer enhanced visibility and performance. For more information about Chromax metallic golf balls visit www.chromaxgolf.com or call (303) 219-0868. Follow Chromax on Facebook facebook.com/chromaxgolf 

Golfshots' 2013 Calendar Now Available

This new 11”x14” wall or desk calendar features 12 spectacular golf course photos taken by world renowned photographer Evan Schiller.

Over the last twenty years, former PGA professional Evan Schiller has established himself as one of the premiere golf course photographers in the world. He has photographed hundreds of championship courses including Pebble Beach Golf Links, Augusta National Golf Club, The Old Course at St. Andrews and Ballybunion Golf Club in Ireland. His work is continously published in many national magazines, books and calendars including the Masters Journal, The US Open Magazine, The Ryder Cup Journal, Links Magazine, Golf Digest, Travel & Liesure Golf, Golf Magazine and the Jack Nicklaus Golf Calendar. Evan's Photography is also exclusively featured in the acclaimed book, Golf Courses of Hawaii.
In addition, Evan is an officially licensed photographer for Pebble Beach Company and his photography is on display at the images of Pebble Beach gallery located at the Lodge at Pebble Beach.
His unusual combination of experiences as a golf professional and photographer provides a perspective that is rare among golf photographers. From 1983 to 1989, Evan competed in professional golf tournaments around the world and on the PGA tour, including the US Open.


To order calendars or request a 2013 calendar order form please contact us by:
MAIL: Golfshots Calendar 36 Old Redding Road Weston, CT 06883
VISIT OUR WEB SITE: www.golfshots.com
PHONE: 203-222-8612
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The Antigua Spring Men's Performance Golf Collections Introduced

The Antigua Spring Men's Performance Golf Collections introduced a new color palette of bright accent colors for it's Spring '12 Golf Wear Collections, and have since brightened the color value for it's Spring 2013 offering. These trending pop colors are used as subtle details, created to appeal to a wide age demographic of both male and female golfers in both of this seasons Men's and Women's Golf Wear Collections.

"For Spring 2013, the focus of pop accent colors on less conspicuous fabrications throughout the collections shows off the styling and design features of the individuals garments," said Sean Gregg, Director of Product Development for Antigua.

"The collections are current in both color and design trend, and are additionally embellished with performance enhancing features by incorporating Antigua's proprietary Desert Dry and Desert Dry Xtra-Lite moisture management technology to produce collections that are both merchandized appropriately for the season while offering performance functionality" Gregg added.

 

PERFORMANCE-72 (PRF-72)

For Spring '13 Antigua introduces PERFORMANCE-72 into it's golf fashion collections. The launch of this trademarked Performance-72 branding represents the benchmark for quality, fit, style and performance functionality on all of it's fashion golf wear collections. Each color story is designed to be merchandised together and to be presented on the retail floor as a collection and the Performance-72 branding trim is color coordinated to match each color story, representing both the brand as well as allowing the consumer to pair up merchandise readily for coordinating confidently on and off the course.

Performance-72 (PRF-72) epitomizes the standard that golf fashion should achieve. It is performance fashion golf apparel at it's best.

 

COLOR STORIES AND STANDOUT STYLES:

The Antigua Men's Collection takes it's new color palette a step bolder and brighter for their Spring 2013 collection. The new pop color palette that Antigua introduced last season has expanded to include six invigorating colors: Lapis, Margarita, Apple, Melon, Phlox, and Zest.

"The reaction to, and acceptance of the direction we're taking with the new color palette has been extremely strong", said Sean Gregg.

 

 

Lapis is a brilliant hue of the more traditional blue, a color grouping that merchandizes well with items that are already in a golfer's wardrobe.

Margarita is a neon take on lime, and is paired with a variety of neutral shades such as Steel, Silver and White. This color offering is expected to become another best-seller for this next season, as Sean Gregg noted that "The dominant color in the market overall is currently lime green, and our Keylime color sold out in every style last season."

Margarita is also used as an accent to Black, for example, the Torrent Polo looks exceptional in Black accented in Margarita and Smoke as contrast stripes on specifically the 3-button placket, under-collar, and on the cut-and-sewn cuffs. The Torrent polo, as do all the performance polos, features Desert Dry™ moisture management technology.

Apple green is a perfect color group for those who want a little more tradition to their pop color, and is merchandized with the color Navy to create a vibrant contrast color story. The color Navy was brought back into the performance color palette this season with the intention of having a bright accent color paired with it.

Zest is a lemon-drop yellow, as another fast trending pop color in the market and included in this seasons collection. Zest is subtly used to accent the smokier color shades in this new collection, such as Black, Steel, and Silver, and as a contrast accent color on collars, cuffs and plackets.

Similarly, the Melon orange and Phlox pink color groups are merchandized with a smoky color palette, which allows the pop colors to bring life to the neutral shades and not overwhelm.

For a blast of pop color, style Surge is sure to be a standout style. A textured horizontal pique stripe is offered in the entire range of this seasons colors representing the palette in it's entirety as a tonal solid polo with white being featured as the neutral shade in the form of a contrast cover-stitch detail. Style Surge can be a featured lead piece in any of the collections color stories.

Conversely, the Pulse polo in any of the subtle neutral colored ombre patterns includes a bright contrast cover-stitch color at the top shoulder seam, underarm seam and side seam, as well as on the placket and the inside back yoke panel.

 

Style Montage, a jacquard tonal abstract geometric polo, is already a big seller in the collection, bringing together a perfect combination of performance function with fashion styling. This polo features Desert Dry Xtra-Lite D2XL moisture management technology offered in a variety of solid tonal brights.

 

The website www.antigua.com. 

Pound Ridge Golf Club Announces Popular Off-Season Rates

Pete Dye Daily Fee Course in Westchester County in Excellent Condition post-Sandy

Pound Ridge Golf Club – the Pete Dye-designed daily fee course 40 miles north of New York City – has emerged from Sandy in excellent condition and off-season rates of $150 before 2 p.m. and $100 after are available Nov. 1 through Dec. 31.

Rates are offered seven days a week and include a golf cart or pull cart, yardage book, bottled water, player’s towel and complimentary use of the driving range, chipping area and practice green.

“We are very fortunate to have only had a few tree branches on the golf course following Sandy and the course is in great shape overall,” says Pound Ridge owner Ken Wang. “Our thoughts go out to the millions impacted by the storm, including so many here in New York and New Jersey. For those with order restored or simply in need of an escape for a few hours, we welcome them to come out and experience Pound Ridge via our off-season rates.”

Located under an hour from New York City and minutes from White Plains, Stamford and Greenwich, Pound Ridge is a quintessential Dye course. All the legendary designer’s renowned touches are on display: dramatic mounding, rhythmic routing and subtle deception meld to create an imminently challenging and fair golf experience. Pound Ridge reflects the best in contemporary course design and is unique in a region filled with classic courses.

Since opening in 2008, Pound Ridge has earned world-class accolades from Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, Golfweek, AskMen.com, Rolex and LINKS Magazine. It quickly emerged as a “destination golf course,” sought out by serious golfers collecting the world’s best golf experiences.

More information: www.poundridgegolf.com<http://www.poundridgegolf.com>, 914.764.5771.

About Pound Ridge Golf Club

Opened in 2008, Pound Ridge Golf Club is the only course in New York designed by the legendary Pete Dye. Located in Westchester County, it is less than an hour north of New York City and less than 15 minutes from Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut. Pound Ridge Golf Club is the premier high-end, public course in the metropolitan New York area.

Crafted by Dye, his son Perry and long-time Dye construction manager/lead shaper Michael Langkau, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a full bentgrass facility, hewn from 172 acres of magnificent cliffs, streams and wooded hills. Dramatic rock formations and boulders were left onsite, creating one of the most visually stunning settings for golf in the U.S. More than 14,000-linear-feet of rock wall surrounds trees, wetlands and water hazards. These frame contoured fairways which wind through hardwood forests and fescue mounds leading to open meadows with picturesque green complexes.

Pound Ridge Golf Club plays to a par-72 and houses five sets of tees and measures 7,165 yards. It boasts a practice range, short game area and putting green. The property features some of the highest points in Westchester County, with a number of tee boxes offering expansive vistas of the surrounding countryside. Notable holes include the par-5, 13th – home to “Pete’s Rock,” a giant boulder that rests in the middle of the fairway – and the par-3 15th – dubbed “Headstone” – which is flanked on the right by a large rock outcropping that protrudes into the elongated, 9,000-square-foot green.

Recent accolades for Pound Ridge Golf Club Include:


 *   “No. 1 New York City Area Golf Course, 2010” – AskMen.com
 *   “America’s Best New Courses, 2009” – Golf Digest
 *   “New Golf Development of the Year, 2009” – ABTA Golf
 *   “Top Ten You Can Play, No. 2, 2008” – GOLF Magazine
 *   “Best New Courses, 2008” – LINKS Magazine
 *   “America’s Best New Courses, 2008” – Golfweek

Antigua Unveils Brighter, Bolder Color Palette For Spring 2013 Men's Collection

  

 

PERFORMANCE-72 is Performance with Style

The Antigua Group, Inc. - one of the nation's leading designers and marketers of genuine sports apparel under its Antigua brand - is excited to unveil their Spring 2013 Men's collection.   The Antigua Spring Men's and Women's Performance Golf Collections introduced a new color palette of bright accent colors for it's Spring '12 Golf Wear Collections, and have since brightened the color value for it's Spring 2013 offering. These trending pop colors are used as subtle details, created to appeal to a wide age demographic of both male and female golfers in both of this seasons Men's and Women's Golf Wear Collections. The Montage Polo show in the color Lapis blue "For Spring 2013, the focus of pop accent colors on less conspicuous fabrications throughout the collections shows off the styling and design features of the individuals garments," said Sean Gregg, Director of Product Development for Antigua. "The collections are current in both color and design trend, and are additionally embellished with performance enhancing features by incorporating Antigua's proprietary Desert Dry and Desert Dry Xtra-Lite moisture management technology to produce collections that are both merchandized appropriately for the season while offering performance functionality" Gregg added. PERFORMANCE-72 (PRF-72) For Spring '13 Antigua introduces PERFORMANCE-72 into it's golf fashion collections. The launch of this trademarked Performance-72 branding represents the benchmark for quality, fit, style and performance functionality on all of it's fashion golf wear collections. Each color story is designed to be merchandised together and to be presented on the retail floor as a collection and the Performance-72 branding trim is color coordinated to match each color story, representing both the brand as well as allowing the consumer to pair up merchandise readily for coordinating confidently on and off the course. Performance-72 (PRF-72) epitomizes the standard that golf fashion should achieve. It is performance fashion golf apparel at it's best. COLOR STORIES AND STANDOUT STYLES: The Antigua Men's Collection takes it's new color palette a step bolder and brighter for their Spring 2013 collection. The new pop color palette that Antigua introduced last season has expanded to include six invigorating colors: Lapis, Margarita, Apple, Melon, Phlox, and Zest. "The reaction to, and acceptance of the direction we're taking with the new color palette has been extremely strong", said Sean Gregg. Lapis is a brilliant hue of the more traditional blue, a color grouping that merchandizes well with items that are already in a golfer's wardrobe. Margarita is a neon take on lime, and is paired with a variety of neutral shades such as Steel, Silver and White. This color offering is expected to become another best-seller for this next season, as Sean Gregg noted that "The dominant color in the market overall is currently lime green, and our Keylime Alpha Desert Dry™ pullover in White/Silver/Margarita color sold out in every style last season." Margarita is also used as an accent to Black, for example, the Torrent Polo looks exceptional in Black accented in Margarita and Smoke as contrast stripes on specifically the 3-button placket, under-collar, and on the cut-and-sewn cuffs. The Torrent polo, as do all the performance polos, features Desert Dry™ moisture management technology. Apple green is a perfect color group for those who want a little more tradition to their pop color, and is merchandized with the color Navy to create a vibrant contrast color story. The color Navy was brought back into the performance color palette this season with the intention of having a bright accent color paired with it. Zest is a lemon-drop yellow, as another fast trending pop color in the market and included in this seasons collection. Zest is subtly used to accent the smokier color shades in this new collection, such as Black, Steel, and Silver, and as a contrast accent color on collars, cuffs and plackets. Similarly, the Melon orange and Phlox pink color groups are merchandized with a smoky color palette, which allows the pop colors to bring life to the neutral shades and not overwhelm. For a blast of pop color, style Surge is sure to be a standout style. A textured horizontal pique stripe is offered in the entire range of this seasons colors representing the palette in it's entirety as a tonal solid polo with white being featured as the neutral shade in the form of a contrast cover-stitch detail. Style Surge can be a featured lead piece in any of the collections color stories. Conversely, the Pulse polo in any of the subtle neutral colored ombre patterns includes a bright contrast cover-stitch color at the top shoulder seam, underarm seam and side seam, as well as on the placket and the inside back yoke panel. Style Montage, a jacquard tonal abstract geometric polo, is already a big seller in the collection, bringing together a perfect combination of performance function with fashion styling. This polo features Desert Dry Xtra-Lite D2XL moisture management technology offered in a variety of solid tonal brights. FABRIC STORIES: This season new performance fabrics were developed with finer yarns to create ultra lightweight knits in textures and in flat jerseys and interlocks that update the hand, drape and appearance of the traditional polo. By using the finest denier yarns available, Antigua has achieved super soft, super lightweight fabrics that provide the same coverage as other poly knits, but allow for faster wicking, additional breathability and less restriction in movement. Desert Dry™ Technology is created exclusively for Antigua to absorb and wick moisture quickly & evenly to achieve the most efficient evaporation possible to keep golfers comfortable and dry. Desert Dry™ XTRA-LITE (D2XL) is a combination of Antigua's exclusive Desert Dry™ moisture wicking feature combined with specially constructed ultra-light fabrics for maximum wicking performance and optimum comfort. About Antigua Headquartered in Peoria, Ariz., The Antigua Group, through its license sports division, holds license agreements with the NFL, Major and Minor League Baseball (MLB), the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), along with numerous American universities and colleges for men's, women's and children's apparel, headwear and outerwear. Antigua additionally designs, produces and supplies product for corporate America and specialty retail managed under its corporate division. Its golf division also holds license agreements with the PGA TOUR, LPGA and the PGA of America. Find Antigua on the web at: www.Antigua.com and ShopAntigua.com Like Antigua on Facebook at: facebook.com/Antigua Follow Antigua on Twitter at: twitter.com/AntiguaWear Watch Antigua YouTube videos at: youtube.com/AntiguaWear The Antigua Group, Inc. 16651 North 84th Avenue, Peoria, Ariz., 85382

Pound Ridge Golf Club Announces Popular Off-Season Rates Pete Dye Daily Fee Course in Westchester County in Excellent Condition post-Sandy

Pound Ridge Golf Club – the Pete Dye-designed daily fee course 40 miles north of New York City – has emerged from Sandy in excellent condition and off-season rates of $150 before 2 p.m. and $100 after are available Nov. 1 through Dec. 31.

Rates are offered seven days a week and include a golf cart or pull cart, yardage book, bottled water, player’s towel and complimentary use of the driving range, chipping area and practice green.

“We are very fortunate to have only had a few tree branches on the golf course following Sandy and the course is in great shape overall,” says Pound Ridge owner Ken Wang. “Our thoughts go out to the millions impacted by the storm, including so many here in New York and New Jersey. For those with order restored or simply in need of an escape for a few hours, we welcome them to come out and experience Pound Ridge via our off-season rates.”

Located under an hour from New York City and minutes from White Plains, Stamford and Greenwich, Pound Ridge is a quintessential Dye course. All the legendary designer’s renowned touches are on display: dramatic mounding, rhythmic routing and subtle deception meld to create an imminently challenging and fair golf experience. Pound Ridge reflects the best in contemporary course design and is unique in a region filled with classic courses.

Since opening in 2008, Pound Ridge has earned world-class accolades from Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, Golfweek, AskMen.com, Rolex and LINKS Magazine. It quickly emerged as a “destination golf course,” sought out by serious golfers collecting the world’s best golf experiences.

More information: www.poundridgegolf.com<http://www.poundridgegolf.com>, 914.764.5771.

About Pound Ridge Golf Club

Opened in 2008, Pound Ridge Golf Club is the only course in New York designed by the legendary Pete Dye. Located in Westchester County, it is less than an hour north of New York City and less than 15 minutes from Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut. Pound Ridge Golf Club is the premier high-end, public course in the metropolitan New York area.

Crafted by Dye, his son Perry and long-time Dye construction manager/lead shaper Michael Langkau, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a full bentgrass facility, hewn from 172 acres of magnificent cliffs, streams and wooded hills. Dramatic rock formations and boulders were left onsite, creating one of the most visually stunning settings for golf in the U.S. More than 14,000-linear-feet of rock wall surrounds trees, wetlands and water hazards. These frame contoured fairways which wind through hardwood forests and fescue mounds leading to open meadows with picturesque green complexes.

Pound Ridge Golf Club plays to a par-72 and houses five sets of tees and measures 7,165 yards. It boasts a practice range, short game area and putting green. The property features some of the highest points in Westchester County, with a number of tee boxes offering expansive vistas of the surrounding countryside. Notable holes include the par-5, 13th – home to “Pete’s Rock,” a giant boulder that rests in the middle of the fairway – and the par-3 15th – dubbed “Headstone” – which is flanked on the right by a large rock outcropping that protrudes into the elongated, 9,000-square-foot green.

Recent accolades for Pound Ridge Golf Club Include:


 *   “No. 1 New York City Area Golf Course, 2010” – AskMen.com
 *   “America’s Best New Courses, 2009” – Golf Digest
 *   “New Golf Development of the Year, 2009” – ABTA Golf
 *   “Top Ten You Can Play, No. 2, 2008” – GOLF Magazine
 *   “Best New Courses, 2008” – LINKS Magazine
 *   “America’s Best New Courses, 2008” – Golfweek

International SNAG Cup Attracts Golfers From Around the World Internet Tournament Offers Competition Without Borders

A fun, family-focused cyber golf tournament designed for players of all ages is now being contested with teams across the globe thanks to SNAG® Golf (Starting New At Golf).  The Third Annual International SNAG Cup tournament invited U.S. golf professionals using SNAG in their teaching to form teams and compete virtually against other teams from around the world.  Invitations to participate also were sent to all of SNAG’s international distributors in some 60 countries.

Teams from the U.S., India, Malaysia, Europe and the United Kingdom were instructed to set up SNAG courses with equal hole distances and everyone is keeping score.  Scores will be turned in to SNAG headquarters on November 20. The international team with the lowest overall score will be named the 2012 winner.

"SNAG is being used every day to teach children around the world that otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to learn this sport," stated Kelly McCammon, Vice President of SNAG Golf. "The goal of the International SNAG tournament is to show that golf can be a more inclusive sport by allowing anyone of any skill level to play, have fun and have success."

The first International SNAG Golf challenge took place between Tower Hamlets, London and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010.  This inspirational event was the result of a whole community joining forces to promote healthy living amongst children.  They saw a total of 125 children and 15 parents and helpers take part.  The tournament was a showcase for an initiative that aimed to increase community participation in the parks of Tower Hamlets and to bring golf to the inner cities.

The second virtual International SNAG Golf tournament was held in 2011 between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Malaysia with Malaysia dominating the event.

“Both kids and adults enjoy the team spirit of taking on challengers from different countries,” says McCammon.  “Perhaps SNAG is doing its part in bringing the world together and forming friendships that could last a lifetime.”

About SNAG® Golf:

SNAG® Golf (‘Starting New at Golf’) is a proven first touch development program designed for new learners of all ages.  It is an easy and fun way to learn and play golf.  SNAG® contains all the elements of golf but in a modified form. 

It builds on strong fundamentals of putting, chipping, pitching and full swing to develop playing ability quickly and effectively.  SNAG® Golf incorporates developmentally appropriate equipment that will allow golf to be learned and played in non-traditional venues, such as on a soccer field, in a gym, or on the beach. 

It can be taught and played almost anywhere in the world with immediate, positive results.  This instant success keeps new learners wanting to be further involved with golf. 

SNAG® is the skills-acquisition program used in the national school golf program headed by the World Golf Foundation’s First Tee Program. There are more than 5,000 schools that are successfully introducing children to golf in the U.S. and over 8,000 worldwide.  Professionals, please visit our SNAG® Pros website www.snagpros.com for more information on our Coaching System used to instruct new learners.  For individuals and groups that want to have fun learning golf visit www.snaggolf.com.