TEAR UP THE RULE BOOK

If you visit an automotive show, brands show off their latest models but also their concept cars, which provide you with an idea of what their designers are thinking about for the future. Why doesn't this happen at golf shows?

Golf manufacturers should let their designers and engineers ‘tear up the rule book’ and provide us with a glimpse of what we should be using to make golf more fun and easier for recreational / amateur golfers.
Better still; let's have a one-ff tournament which allows these concept clubs and balls to be played with.

------------------------------------------------------

CLIMATE PICTURE

New research from universities in the US, Australia and the UK has tested how different pictures make people feel about whether climate change is important, and whether they can do something about it.

They mostly split into three categories: pictures of climate impacts, energy futures - meaning new energy sources like solar panels - and pictures of celebrities and politicians.

Images of climate impacts made people feel like climate change is important, but they also made them feel like there's not much they can do to stop it.

The researchers found that pictures of energy futures - including solar panels and energy efficiency measures - were most likely to make people feel like they could do something about climate change, because they represented ways people could act by themselves.

Look at this example of successfully deployed renewable technology. How's your efficacy doing?

Images of celebrities and politicians - like Richard Branson, and Al Gore - "made participants in this study feel quite strongly that climate change was unimportant".
----------------------------------------------------------

HIGHLY UNLIKELY

Will all the major golf tours; PGA, LPGA, European Tour, LET and Asian Tour advise there players to wear a natural-fibre garment underneath their sponsored synthetic moisture-wicking, anti-bacterial shirt to act as a barrier between their skin and toxic chemicals used to make polyester / nylon sports apparel? As recommended by the European consumer organisation who tested and extracted toxic chemicals from sweat solutions via synthetic sports shirts last summer, 2012.
---------------------------------------------------------

SPIRAL BALL SLEEVE ARTWORK BY MXVGOLF

Our friends across the pond at MXVGOLF have designed a sleeve for our new 2013 Spiral Golf Ball.
We like it, how about you?
----------------------------------------------------------

MXVGOLF PUTTER

MXVGOLF REVEALS THE NEW MXV1 PUTTER AT THE PGA MERCHANDISE SHOW 

Center Strike Technology™ with unique round face design offers truer roll

BROOKFIELD, CT -- MxVGolf announces its new MxV1 Putter. It will debut at January 23, 2013 at the 60th PGA Demo Day Orange County National Golf Center & Lodge in Orlando and January 24-26 at the PGA Merchandise Show, Booth #921, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL

The patent pending MXV1 putter conforms with The Rules of Golf for both the USGA and R&A, allowing it to be played in all professional tournaments throughout the world.

The MxV1 Putter is based on the principals of Newton’s Cradle and its example of momentum (mass x velocity or MxV). “Through its development we discovered that the same concept (of the Cradle) applied to our club by advancing a truer roll and a more  accurate strike towards the center of gravity, our as we call it, Center Strike Technology™” said Brian Wittman, inventor of the MxV1.

“Our heavyweight (420 grams) MxV1 is at the crossroads of evolution and revolution. There is simply no other viable putter on the market today that approaches the center of gravity the way we do.  By essentially striking a ball with another ball, you almost can’t miss the center of gravity. The radius of our putter face is the same as a standard US Golf Ball (1.68 inches) and even with a minor tolerance we have found more accurate strikes and optimal roll, time after time... not to mention its quite a head turner on the green.” 

Each MxV1 Putter is precision engineered in stainless steel with a black carbon matte PVD finish. The putter features a ball alignment marking in orange and white on the leading edge of the club face radius and a cut out ball profile on the back edge. The back edge profile can also be used to lift the ball off the green.

A tapered steel shaft is mounted in the center of the putter head and features the Argyle Comfort™, mid-sized pistol grip, promoting a controlled confident stroke that produces an improved alignment and truer roll.

A custom leather head cover is included and features a magnetic closure, a soft plush interior and full embroidered logo graphics.

The MxV1 Putter is available in right hand and left hand shaft configurations with a standard lie of 70 degrees (custom lies available) and can be pre-ordered now for delivery after the PGA Show in January. Available from select pro shops and MxVGolf’s website with a retail price of $199.  For more information on the MxV1 putter, please visit www.mxvgolf.com.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

30,000 REASONS

Many of you will have read Rory gets paid £30,000 a day to endorse Nike Golf gear. Good for Rory and Nike.

That’s 30,000 reasons for Rory to turn a blind-eye to the less than ‘living wage’ Nike pays its contracted factory textile workers, who are predominately young women.

And 30,000 reasons to ignore Nike contracted factories who wash away their dye-coloured water into local rivers causing wide spread pollution.
 
But what reason do you have?

-------------------------------------------------------

HOW IS YOURS MADE?

Made in a factory which generates its electricity solely from ‘cleaner’ renewable energy; wind and solar power rather than ‘dirty’ coal fired power stations?

Made in a factory which recycles its dye-coloured water rather than washing it away into local rivers causing widespread pollution?
 
Making something is difficult. Can you be proud of how your golf shirts are made?
 
Tour pros please get in touch if you would like to wear the only ethically made, organic, carbon neutral golf apparel.
 
http://www.facebook.com/golfrefugeespage
------------------------------------------------------------------------