While children everywhere wait every year for the holiday season to arrive, these weeks and months can be difficult for golfers. Unless they’re living way down south or far enough west to sniff desert, the only golf available is via simulators, indoor ranges or Playstation.
You can take the edge off of a golfer’s suffering by serving up any of these golf gifts. Each reminds the duffer that warmer weather is coming — while improving his or her game.
10 Coolest Gifts for Golf Addicts
Mizuno JPX Series Wedge
PRICE: $99.99
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.com
Designed with grooves, ridges and a fleshier club face, this new Mizuno wedge gets your ball up in the air with desired spin quickly and neatly. It feels great in the hand — well-balanced and just heavy enough to bring your swing down with sweet pendulum action. Regardless of the exact degree of loft, the JPX line gets the ball up fast and stops it quick.
PGA National Gift Package
PRICE: $299 per person
BUY IT NOW!: PGA National
Enjoy one round of golf daily on The Champion (surcharge), The Palmer, The Fazio, The Squire and The Estates.
Nightly accommodations at PGA National’s award-winning hotel with private balcony, unlimited range balls, club storage, and daily Palm Terrace breakfast are all included. Rates start at $299 per person, per night (based on double occupancy) January 1 – April 30.
Adams Tight Lies Fairway Wood
PRICE: $159
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.com
A golf club rapidly gaining fame and populariry the new Adams Tight Lies Fairway Wood is a golf weapon designed to get your backside out of trouble when you stray into the second cut. It's reassuring to have one in your bag.
ECCO Men's Tour Hybrid Wing Tip Golf Shoes
PRICE: $189.95
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.com
A beautiful golf shoe you can wear on the course of out on the town with ease. Made of quality leather and a soft spike tread, these are golf shoes for players who remember it's a game for gentlemen with class.
GolfSense
PRICE: $129.95
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.com
Using a sensor that clips to your golf glove and a free app that tracks and analyzes your golf swing, the GolfSense is personal swing teacher that could save a lot on lessons. The manufactured design needs a little more stability where it connects to the glove, but the app works very well.
Swingbyte 2
PRICE: $149.00
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.com
Clipping onto a golf club, this sensor records your swing and sends that data to your mobile device. The linked app reproduces the swing into a 3D model to analyze for faults and areas of improvement.
Once clamped on, I did what I could to swing and shake it off, but it stayed fast. Durable and reliable, it's an effective teacher.
Cleveland Golf Smart Square Putter
PRICE: $139.99
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.com
Easily one of the larger putters any golfer will take into battle, the new Smart Square uses dual axis alignment and the sheer momentum of a double-length club head to slow down a putting stroke to its proper speed. A golfer is supposed to putt from the shoulders like a pendulum, and the size and balance of the Smart Square helps to create that.
GolfLogix
PRICE: $19.95-$39.95
BUY IT NOW!: GolfLogix.com
An advanced GPS app that tracks your position on the course, GolfLogix records more than 30,000 golf courses around the world. When a player employs it on the course, he or she enjoys distance readouts, score keeping and other useful features. $19.95-$39.95.
Tin Cup Ball Stencils
PRICE: $19.95
BUY IT NOW!: Tin-Cup.com
Fun, simple and straightforward, Tin Cup lets a golfer Sharpie on a stencil onto a golf ball — personalizing every pellet. Buyers can even serve up their own designs for custom orders.
A Round at Shadow Creek Golf Course; Las Vegas, NV
PRICE: $500.00
BUY IT NOW!: Shadow Creek
There will be more detailed coverage of Shadow Creek coming soon, but it makes a very thoughtful gift for now. All you need to play Shadow Creek outside Las Vegas is about $500 per round, a room at an MGM resort and "President of the United States" or NBA Hall of Famer on your resume.