Tom Kite shot 3 under yesterday at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship at the newly redesigned TPC Potomac at Avenel Farms. It reminded us of his teacher Harvey Penick and the video Kite shot with Ben Crenshaw for the video version based on the best selling ‘Little Red Book’ back in 1994.
While most of us have moved on to the DVD format we usually have an old VHS player laying around for situations like this. No word on a DVD version.
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2010 Ryder Cup Team Europe captain Colin Montgomerie is featured in this classic matchup between the USA and Europe in 2002. Originally scheduled for 28–30 September 2001, it was postponed one year due to the September 11 attacks and thereafter adopted an even-numbered year schedule.
Played at the 7,118-yard Brabazon course at The Belfry, England, Team USA was led by Curtis Strange, and included the marquee players Tiger Woods and Paul Azinger.
This DVD chronicles the teams’ battle as they head into the third day tied. Looking like the match was going down to the wire, Ryder Cup rookie Paul McGinley sunk a 9-foot putt to regain the coveted trophy for Team Europe.
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Christina Ricci is a marketing executive who took up golf when she turned thirty. Five years later she was a 5 handicap amateur with a unique perspective and a passion to help other women win.
Based on her experiences, and utilizing her skills and connections, Christina decided that there were others out there struggling to do the same so she developed A Girl’s On-Course Survival Guide to Golf. That was 2008.
Today, Christina has expanded her advice to several other formats and products such as DVD, iPhone and a new guide titled Reach Your Goals Survival Guide to Golf.
Click the link to listen to our interview with Christina. She is a fun and engaging personality, and knows a thing or two about the golf game. If you are interested in her marketing and development perspectives we invite you to read her interview on our Sellbox blog.
Capitalizing on the biggest golf—if not sports—story since Thanksgiving 2009, Infinity Entertainment Group brings us Prodigy: An Unauthorized Story on Tiger Woods.
This 52 minute DVD examines Woods’ stratospheric rise and then chronicles his rapid fall from grace.
Born Eldrick Tont Woods, the sporting prodigy studied at the prestigious Stanford University, competing in Ivy League tournaments. His youth, good looks, charisma and tenacity earned him a position as golf’s most marketable asset, single-handedly popularizing the greens among a mass audience. But 2009 shattered the legendary golfer’s squeaky-clean image with revelations of widespread adultery rocking his stable home life with wife Elin and two children … the ensuing chaos damaging his career. Following a leave to address personal issues, his return to golf has been shaky at best.
Summer may be half over but there is still time to get your son or daughter out to the course for some quality time. Here are three good DVD-based instruction videos geared to kids to help make your job easier.
Pam Bowers, multiple winner of the U.S. Kids Golf Top 50 Kids Teacher Award, delivers an informative and fun tool you can instantly apply when teaching golf to kids. This instructional DVD includes advice on equipment, grip techniques, how to teach the power zone and solid swing fundamentals. Practice recommendations and drills are included to help you encourage junior golfers to develop a solid swing foundation.
Golf Fun and Fundamentals for Kids (Amazon Ranking: 46,784)
This DVD introduces children to the basics of golf. Among the topics covered are: rules and etiquette, putting, chipping, pitching, irons and woods. Numerous drills and games are also demonstrated to help make the game fun for kids while developing their skills. This program will appeal to parents and young golfers just starting out, as well as those already familiar with the game.
The Better Golf Academy: Better Golf for Kids Vol. 1 (Amazon Ranking: 63,572) By James Pugliese
Learn the fundamentals for improving your golf game. It covers the basics of golf including: Safety & Getting Started, The Swing, Pitching, Sand Play, Chipping, Putting, Playing by the Rules. Includes bonus interactive DVD quiz. James Pugliese founded The Better Golf Academy with a strong desire to simplify the golf swing and teaching method for children of all ages and abilities. The Better Golf Academy is one of the largest providers of at-school golf lessons in the U.S.
Unique tricks, amazing stunts and entertainment for whole-family entertainment.
Audiences of all ages will be dazzled and entertained at the phenomenal hand-eye coordination and motor skill ability of Chuck “The Hit Man” Hiter as he performs the most amazing stunts and unique tricks ever seen done with a golf ball.
Chuck Hiter has been featured in nearly every golf publication, major newspaper and television sports shows including CBS Sports, ABC Sports, FOX Sports, The Golf Channel and ESPN. The Hit Man is featured on The Golf Channel’s, Profiles of a Pro, and is the only golf trick shot artist to ever appear on ESPN’s, Top Ten Plays of the Day 3 times in one day. Hiter holds the Guinness World Record for distance and accuracy while hitting a golf ball out of mid-air. Click here to buy the DVD.
How did you come up with the idea for The Ben Hogan Collection?
A few years ago when I decided I would get back into golf I remembered fun days of playing with brand new custom Ben Hogan Golf clubs, my first set of clubs and the instructional books. So I proceeded to go out and start collecting on eBay. I started quite a collection then I saw there were some films on instruction and I began collecting those. At one point I hit upon an eBay sale, an auction going on for a 3-minute video clip of Mr. Hogan on a driving range, the 1967 Masters.
Well I missed out on buying that one but in the process discovered the seller had not only a few more, he had a whole lot more. I think there was 32 film rolls in all between him and his partner. I ended up buying them all.
Fortunately I had gotten to know Jim McLean through his golf school at the Doral Golf Resort here in Miami. I mentioned it to him and so he was waiting for something like six months while I assembled them into a tape. It really was pretty neat. He took a look at it and said to me, I remember the words, “Tom you really need to do something with this.”
Did Mr. Hogan’s family participate?
I contacted the family through their attorney and told him what I wanted to do. I tell you, I was so nervous to do that because I didn’t want to get no for an answer.
So he asked for a written proposal and forwarded it to the family of the estate. They said basically okay so we came up to some terms and an agreement for the rights to use Mr. Hogan’s image and such in all the DVD production and marketing and advertising and went ahead with the written agreement.
What information does it include?
It was originally envisioned as a single DVD but quickly expanded to a three DVD set. Most of the major content was what I received through that original purchase from the videographer; lots of Hogan swinging the club but other segments like him talking to Sam Snead during a practice round and playing with Gardner Dickinson and Jackie Burke at the Masters. I mean there’s all this neat stuff that nobody had ever seen before and I just felt personally that a lot of other people would enjoy watching it.
My main goal was to put this together in such a way that folks would be able to see a lot more of Mr. Hogan in his prime and then during his later years out on the golf course hitting golf balls and learn by watching what he did.
You had other golf greats in the Collection as well, right?
The real help in that regard came from Jim McLean. He knows everybody. We interviewed Jack Nicklaus for 45 minutes and his time is like gold. I mean it’s impossible to do stuff like this and he jumped in there and said, “Oh absolutely, sure. Is his family involved?” That’s all he asked and he said yes.
We also had a chance to interview Butch Harmon, Bob Toski, Jackie Burke, Jimmy Ballard and many others. There is footage of the Ben Hogan room at Golf House as well.
What are you working on now? Is there a follow-up to this?
We have a number of projects planned using our existing footage. A documentary DVD as well as applications on the iPhone, iPod and getting into that market.
What I’m most excited about is that we were granted the extended right with the family to take Five Lessons, The Modern Fundamentals of Golf book that’s been in print for over 50 years to DVD and into the digital domain. Part of that is the creation of a Ben Hogan avatar similar to what you see in the movie Avatar and/or video games of various types.
We’ll create an avatar of Mr. Hogan that has him swinging a golf club with the ability to go in and look at his swing from any angle, top, bottom, side, back, front, close up. What a master to learn from.
More about Tom McCarthy: McCarthy has more than 30 years experience in the human services profession and holds a masters degree in behavior analysis. Most notably, he minored in film studies at Florida State University while majoring in psychology. In 2005 McCarthy established MeTee’s Champions LLC, the publisher of The Ben Hogan Collection, and manages planning, finance, production, marketing and sales of the Collection and related media and accessory products.
Tom Kite shot 3 under yesterday at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship at the newly redesigned TPC Potomac at Avenel Farms. It reminded us of his teacher Harvey Penick and the video Kite shot with Ben Crenshaw for the video version based on the best selling ‘Little Red Book’ back in 1994.
Christina Ricci is a marketing executive who took up golf when she turned thirty. Five years later she was a 5 handicap amateur with a unique perspective and a passion to help other women win.
