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“It’s not something that excites me. There’s a morality to it as well. A lot
of countries we play in there’s a reason not to go, but I just don’t want
to.” Rory McIlroy reportedly turned down a $2.5 million appearance fee to play in Saudi Arabia.

RUKKET POP-UP
CHIPPING NET £30
Turn your garden into a short game
area with this easy-to-use chipping
net. It features three targets, pops up
in an instant and folds away into a
carry bag for easy storage and
transportation. You can even use it
indoors with the 12 foam practice balls
that come with it, if you’re not feeling
brave enough to start pitching Pro Vs
around the office!
www.rukket.com
ACUSTRIKE GOLF MAT £44.99 RAPSODO MOBILE
Winner of Best New Product at the 2019 LAUNCH MONITOR £499
PGA Merchandise Show, this is a simple A launch monitor makes it easy
but brilliant piece of kit to use at the to ascertain exactly what is
range. Simply place your ball on the happening at impact and during
designated spot and hit your shot. The the ball’s flight. Unfortunately, a
mat will give you all the feedback you Trackman or GC2 will set you
need in terms of whether you hit it heavy back around £15,000, which is a
or pure, out of the heel or toe, and even bit steep for most of us. This
the path your clubhead was traveling on Mobile Launch Monitor offers
through impact. It will help you groove a much of the same info, including
pure impact and make hitting balls far clubhead speed, ball speed,
more useful. smash factor, distance, launch
www.acustrikegolf.com
angle and launch direction, for a
fraction of the price. It can’t
match the big boys in terms of
detail, but it’s a decent
alternative for the price, and is
much easier to carry around than
a full-size launch monitor.
www.rapsodo.com/golf

ARCCOS 360 £249.99
Golf’s only fully-automatic
performance tracking system
records every shot you hit,
enabling it to provide in-depth
information on not only how far
you hit each club, but also your
strokes gained performance in
driving, approach play, chipping,
bunkers and putting.
When paired with your phone, it
LINEFIX360 £9.99 also serves as a GPS which,
A line around the circumference of your ball is a coupled with the club-by-club
fantastic alignment aid and is perfectly legal, yardage data, will help you
including in competition. This is the best tool choose the right club more often,
we’ve tried for making sure the line is perfectly saving you shots. Users drop
straight. You can get cheaper, plastic alternatives, their handicap by, on average,
but they don’t hold your ball as securely and 3.77 shots in a year. There aren’t
often mean you have to draw a much thicker line, many pieces of golf equipment
which is less pleasing to the eye. that can say that.
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