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TEACHER TALK

Who Is Golf’s Best Teacher?

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“High Definition Golf Simulator Gets My Vote,” says John Andrisani, best selling author and former senior instruction editor of Golf Magazine who was the first golf expert to name the 50 Best Teachers in America.

“The HDGS separates fact from fiction when it comes to determining exactly what the body and golf club are doing during the swing, and identifying specific faults in a golfer’s address, backswing, or downswing.”

“What’s more, the SIM’S sophisticated software provides various proven pro-swing model-positions for golfers to test out, until, through trial-and-error, the player determines which work best in terms of consistently producing powerfully accurate shots.”

Today, 27 million people play golf at public, private, semi-private, resort, municipal, county, and state courses. However, over the last few years just about as many golfers who took up golf, quit golf. Furthermore, the handicaps of the majority of club-level players are rising instead of going down.

There are many who point to poorly trained PGA professionals as a cause for golfers failing to improve. That’s not true. Right now, the Professional Golfer’s Association of America is doing all it can to help golfers employ an on-plane, on-path swing and return the clubface squarely and solidly to the ball more consistently. Yet, because the swing takes less than two seconds from takeaway to impact, more and more instructors, including highly ranked coaches, such as Jim McLean, see the advantages of bringing in a new pair of eyes to help pinpoint a fault in a golfer’s swing technique.

That new pair of eyes belongs to the High Definition Golf Simulator from Interactive Sports Technologies Inc., the latest high-tech product in virtual golf technology that allows golfers to learn how to swing more efficiently, hit a variety of innovative tee-to-green shots, and shoot lower scores while playing the greatest courses in the world, such as Pebble Beach - - in the home, at a local club, resort, sports bar, on a cruise ship, and in golf retail stores such as Edwin Watts, where a player can be fitted for the perfect driver or set of clubs while golfing.

“Whether the golfer learns how to employ the most technically-sound swing under the guidance of a qualified PGA instructor or chooses to go the self-taught route, the HDGS takes the guesswork out of golf instruction - - as thousands of players are finding out - - and not just amateurs!” says IST CEO Todd Richardson.

That’s true. Word is, PGA Tour pro Johnson Wagner credits the HDGS for straightening out his swing problems and promoting on-target shots in route to winning the 2008 Shell Houston Open. What’s the “Sim’s” secret?

High speed sophisticated cameras capture the swing from both the face-on and down-target angles and provide instant data on club-head path, club-speed, clubface position at impact, ball speed and launch angle, ball trajectory and ball flight. Consequently, once a golfer swings and the ball lands on the fairway or green of a championship “course” - - laid out on a 12’ wide by 9’ high screen - - a swing fault can be identified and corrected within seconds, then tested out against a perfect model-action recommended by the club pro - - anything from Jim McLean’s 8-Step Power-Swing to legendary golfer Moe Norman’s Shift-Drop-Slide Accuracy Swing.

A growing number of golf instructors are gaining such respect for the HDGS that even the Florida headquarters of the Professional Golfer’s Association of America houses one of these super-duper swing-training aids in order to collect data on average golfers and refine the improvement process. And so far so good; in fact, if things keep going the way they are going, as far as more rapid improvement among golfers, you will likely see a “Sim” in every section of the PGA across the United States. Having said that, though the HDGS is the best teaching tool available to teachers and students, its uses are multifaceted.

Golfers who play golf just for fun and like to partake in an on-course wager, will really enjoy the HDGS, namely because a foursome can play eighteen holes really fast, owing mostly to not having to search for misguided golf balls. Quicker paced play will give you golf nuts plenty of time to compete in a long drive or closest-to-the-pin competition or play anything from a standard Nassau game to more exotic on-course gambling games such as Las Vegas. When you’re finished, just leave your living room, fix a few 19^th-hole cocktails for you and the boys, then kick your feet up and watch a HD movie in your home theater on your huge Hollywood type screen.

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