November 01, 2007
— Training products for distance, accuracy, putting and practice all introduced in the complete SKLZ line of Rick Smith Signature Series golf trainers —
SAN DIEGO, CA. SKLZ, the industry leader in sports skill development products and equipment, today announced the release of its Rick Smith Signature Series line of golf training products. Smith, well known as one of the PGA Tour’s top instructors, has been integral to the development of a complete line with training products to help golfers gain more distance, eliminate slices, and putt better for lower scores.
“Finally, you can get a comprehensive set of training tools to improve your golf game, all from one brand,” says Smith. “And with my name on this line, I’m obviously a huge believer in what it can do to help any golfer.”
“Having Rick Smith on our team is absolutely huge for delivering our training line,” says Tom Quinn, president of Pro Performance Sports, owner of the SKLZ brand. “No one is more knowledgeable or respected when it comes to golf game improvement.”
Merchandised for easy reference under the categories of Distance, Accuracy, Putting, and Practice, the broad SKLZ golf line both improves upon industry mainstays and offers completely new training concepts. Updates to better known trainers include products such as: Swing Accelerator weighted clubs with their patented internal weighting system; Refiner dual-adjustable hinged clubs; and Slice Eliminator for grooving an in-to-in swing path.
Additionally, SKLZ has gone beyond more traditional types of golf teaching aides to include fresh new training products such as: the Pure-Strike sweet spot trainer with balls that stick to your clubface to show your contact at impact; the unique Refiner dual-adjustable hinged putter; and the Rip-N-Grip home driving and chipping range with balls that stick to a Velcro® screen to show your accuracy and trajectory.
“Bringing an entire golf training line to market at once is unprecedented,” says Quinn. “But, we’re known for doing things like that with other sports (especially baseball), which makes it easier for us to produce and broadly distribute a line like this.”
SKLZ’s Rick Smith Signature Series of golf training products will be available at sporting goods and golf specialty retailers in November 2007, and will also be offered at the sklz.com web site.
About SKLZ
SKLZ is the industry leader in developing and marketing sports skills development trainers to serious athletes of all ages. The flagship brand of Pro Performance Sports, SKLZ builds on the popularity of the company’s industry-leading baseball product, the Hit-A-Way,® to deliver broad lines of training products across a variety of sports. With international headquarters in San Diego, California, SKLZ focuses on transforming innovative concepts into commercially successful consumer sports training products that are fun, functional, and affordable. The company manufactures, sources, distributes and markets durable, high-performance trainers that can be found internationally at major sporting goods retailers, specialty shops, and mass merchants, as well as on the SKLZ web site at www.sklz.com.
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