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Father’s Day Gift Guide: 13 great golf gifts for dad at PGA TOUR Superstore

Check out these 13 Father’s Day golf gifts from PGA TOUR Superstore

Father’s Day will be here before you know it so take the time to pick out a perfect gift for dad.

Whether your dad is a scratch golfer, a true beginner or somewhere in between, PGA TOUR Superstore has exactly what you need to make this Father’s Day one to remember.

Gift dad a big ticket item like a new driver, putter or set of irons. If you’re on a strict budget, PGA Tour Superstore has gift guides to keep you in line with gifts under $50 and $100.

Get dad something he’ll be excited to use! With thousands of pieces of golf equipment, apparel, accessories and more at PGA TOUR Superstore, you’re sure to find a gift dad will love.

Golfweek’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide: Best golf gift ideas for every type of golfer

Your guide to every type of golf gift for the 2022 holiday season.

With our calendars making the turn to November, the holiday season is officially upon us.

Not to worry, Golfweek is here to help your holiday shopping stay stress-free! We’re compiling the best golf gifts for all types of golfers this holiday season. Whether you’re looking for a parent, spouse or child, a high handicapper or scratch golfer, we’ve got you covered.

From quarter zips to shorts, golf balls to rangefinders, and everything in between, you’ll be done with your holiday shopping so fast, you can even hit the links yourself!

Golfweek will be publishing more specific gift guides throughout November and December, so be sure to check back and grab the perfect gift, even if you’re just treating yourself. Happy holidays and happy gifting!

These 4 training aids will help you make more putts

Every golfer feels like they should be making more putts… and they’re right! While very few golfers have the physical gifts to be able to hit their driver 300-plus yards in the air like Dustin Johnson, we can all improve our putting without spending …

Every golfer feels like they should be making more putts… and they’re right! While very few golfers have the physical gifts to be able to hit their driver 300-plus yards in the air like Dustin Johnson, we can all improve our putting without spending hours on the course or at the gym.

So how do you do it? We reached out to Perfect Practice, an innovative golf training aid company that has developed a lineup of effective and simple-to-use products with some of the biggest names in golf.

Please enjoy these recommendations from Dustin Johnson, his brother/caddie Austin Johnson, and top-ranked instructors Matt Killen and Zach Allen to learn more about their favorite Perfect Practice training aids and how they use them to make more putts.

Dustin Johnson: Two-Time Major Champion                                                Recommendation: Perfect Putting Mat™

The conditions vary from one PGA Tour event to the next. However, when it comes to practice, I know I can count on my Perfect Putting Mat to remain consistent.

The team at Perfect Practice ships me a mat at every tournament I play, so I can lay it out in my hotel room or at the house that I’m renting. Sometimes I use it before the round, sometimes after and occasionally both. It’s hard to walk past it without hitting a few putts, which has been very helpful.

The Perfect Putting Mat is something every golfer should have at home or even in their office because it makes practice so convenient. If you’re crunched for time, you can still get in some tour-quality practice.

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Austin Johnson: PGA Tour Caddy For Dustin Johnson
Recommendation: Laser Putting Glasses

Caddies on the PGA Tour do a lot more than just carry the bag. Players like Dustin Johnson (my brother and for whom I caddy on Tour) often lean on us to check their fundamentals, and that’s why I love the Laser Putting Glasses. With the Laser Putting Glasses, we can look at his eye position together, whether we’re out on the course, on the practice green or at home on the mat.

It’s the little variations from week to week that can be the difference between missing a cut or winning the tournament—having a tool like the Laser Putting Glasses allows us to check one of the most important things about putting and be as consistent as possible.

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Matt Killen, GOLF Top-100 Teacher
Recommendation: The Raindrop — Retractable Putting String

I work with several of the best golfers in the world, and many amateur golfers, too. When it comes to putting, one thing they have in common is that they can struggle with their start lines.

In the past, we’ve seen golfers using chalk lines and a lot of other things to practice this. I wanted to create something better. The Raindrop is the best putting string in the world. It’s easy to use. It won’t tangle. It extends to 20 feet. And just as importantly, it’s retractable, so you can set it up and take it down quickly.

The Raindrop is one of the few products that will show you in real time why you’re missing putts. Is it the read… or your stroke? And once you know the answer, you can start making more putts.

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Zach Allen, Southern California Teacher Of The Year
Recommendation: True Pendulum Motion (TPM)

I’ve taught with almost every putting training out there. The TPM, by far, is the simplest. It fixes the most common setup flaws and teaches golfers to make a perfect pendulum putting stroke that used to take golfers years to learn.

With the TPM, there’s no need to manipulate the putter or change anything during the stroke. It’s the only training aid I’ve ever used that teaches golfers what it’s like to make a perfect putting stroke every time.
Golfers will get better every time they use the TPM, which will translate to a lot more made putts on the course.

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Ready to make 2022 your best year ever on the course? Pick up one or more of these training aids, and you’ll be surprised with how much more confidence you’ll have on the greens — and how many more putts you’ll make.

Visit perfectpractice.golf to learn more about all of the company’s training aids.

Coronavirus: Indoor putting devices suddenly are all the rage

Sales of indoor putting devices have skyrocketed as stay-at-home rules are forcing golfers to get creative on how they practice and play.

In one of my all-time favorite movies, “A Few Good Men,” Lt. Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, walks around his house carrying a baseball bat because he does his best thinking with it in his hands. I prefer to hold a putter – I’ve got them in every room of my house – but I don’t actually hit many putts, in large part, because neither the carpeting nor the flooring is particularly putting friendly.

In short, it would be counterproductive to work on my stroke here. Luckily for me, I’ve also got a real grass practice-putting green, not in my backyard, but in walking distance for those times when I feel the need to stroke some putts.

Perfect Practice Putting Mat (Adam Schupak/Golfweek)

But now, thanks to the coronavirus and current stay-at-home guidelines to minimize its effect, that putting green is closed and many of us are hunkering down at home. Still, we need our golf fix, right?

That has led to a run on indoor-putting devices (web sites note limited supply). Everyone from PGA Tour pros Dustin Johnson (and fiancée Paulina) to Patrick Rodgers to fellow media members Amanda Balionis and Kira Dixon have posted videos of themselves sharpening their short sticks inside.

There are several indoor putting devices to choose from if you scour the Internet, including models from Eyeline Golf, PuttOut Golf, SKLZ and Birdie Ball, just to name a few. They are all selling for roughly the same price, topping out at $169.99 unless you’re looking for a high-end synthetic turf model, in which case expect to dig deeper into your wallet.

I’m using the Perfect Practice Putting Green Mat, which has already proclaimed itself “the 2020 Social Distancing Golf Product of the Year” and has a hashtag I can get behind: #AlwaysBePutting. I’m enjoying it for a variety of reasons. Assembly was idiot-proof. Simply unroll the strip of carpet, connect together the four-piece wooden ball return, slide the backstop in the appropriate slot and you’re good to go.

I had one of these contraptions back in the day and they’ve come a long way. For starters, no electricity required and it’s portable so I can put it away easily or move it to another room if I choose. I like the measurement tape along the sides so I know if I’m practicing from 5 feet or 6 feet and and the lines help me groove a straight back, straight through motion.

Also, you practice putting up a slight incline and so I get immediate feedback if I decelerate, which I’ve been known to do. There is also a regulation hole to aim at on the left and a smaller hole that is quite the challenge on the right. Why the smaller hole? The theory is if you “aim small, you miss small.” Most importantly, it gives a consistent, smooth, straight putt.

My wife and I have had some heated games of P-A-R since the putting mat arrived on Monday (after work hours for her, of course. This is called research for me!). At one point, she made the comment that this was the most she had practiced in a long time. Lo and behold, we squeezed in a late nine holes after work on Wednesday and she made everything she looked at – nothing but foam noodle.

“I may come out of this coronavirus thing a better putter,” she said.

To paraphrase Lt. Col. Nathan Jessup, played to perfection by Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men,” that is a truth that I cannot handle.