Good turn out at the Wednesday bounce game today -- Carol, Helen and Linda were the winners and Carol was very impressed with her new Rocket Launcher Smart Mat as was Linda who tried it as well.
PLEASE NOTE THAT LINDA DID NOT CONTINUE HER STRIKE AT HELEN !!
This is the article from the Scottish Club golfer magazine that tells you all about it.
WITH bad weather affecting summer as well as winter revenues, clubs need to be more innovative, so a new device seems a logical step in the right direction.
Damian Kilby, managing director of divotEND Scotland Ltd, describes his product as the‘first, true Performance Winter Rules Mat’. He’s not far wrong.
Simple yet highly engineered to give the sensation of taking a divot. It even fits in your pocket. divotEND’s Rocket Launcher was voted No.1 Best Product at this year’s Scottish Golf Show and may be the only device of its kind approved by the R&A for competition when local rules are mandated. A brief scan of customers’ comments at www.divotend.com certainly gives the golfer in each of us great confidence - but what does it mean for Clubs and Pros?
SAVING
“Well, for one,” says Kilby, “they’ll not be spending thousands on large teeing ground mats which damage the
underlying grass and there’ll be no need to buy hundreds of giveaway mats either. Golfers can use it off the teeing ground all year round so there’s literally hundreds of greenkeeping hours saved at each club. Greenkeepers will see improved fairways in winter as even the better golfers prefer to use our mat and won’t simply discard it when not under supervision.”
IMPACT
So how does it work? “Well, on the fairway when you’re using irons it gets the ball much lower, the ball actually touches the grass. On impact it works in concert with the natural grass cushioning underneath. It permits golfers to maintain their normal downward divot-taking arc but with no resultant divot.”
It certainly seems like this device is the ‘must have’ golf gadget of the coming winter.
Indeed, Kilby states that the Rocket Launcher often flips over when struck, “so sponsors see it as a prime mechanism for promoting their message”. That could be a tidy earner, too. No wonder their catch cry is:“divotEND pays dividends, to clubs, golfers and our planet”. For enquiries, please email info@divotend.com
