GolfTime Magazine Features the Ultimate Polara Golf Advantage Combination

Polara Golf….Longer, Straighter Drives GUARANTEED!

This new Golf Ball and Driver combination from Polara Golf will not only reduce your hook or slice, it will help you hit the ball farther than you ever have before. If your No. 1 priority is to correct your hook or slice, try the Polara Golf Ultimate Straight golf ball (75% reduction in hooks and slices) and the Polara Golf 12 degree Advantage driver for much longer and much straighter drives. If you are looking for some slice protection (50% reduction in hooks and slices) as well as some Extra Distance, test drive the Polara XD golf ball and the 10.5 degree Polara Golf Advantage driver.

Visit www.PolaraGolf.com to figure out which ball and Driver Combination is right for you!

Polara Golf Products Enhance Fun for Golfers

 

Would you buy a self-correcting golf ball that greatly reduced or even eliminated your wicked slice or your uncontrollable hook?

Of course you would.

But would you buy the same ball if it did not conform to the Rules of Golf?

Things get a bit trickier here. The golfer who uses a "foot wedge," gives himself a 3-foot putt, takes a mulligan (or two) and ignores the stroke-and-distance penalty when his tee shot sails out of bounds has been conditioned to turn up his nose at nonconforming equipment.

"That stuff is illegal," the golfer will say as he improves his lie in the rough.

Sure, it's illegal. But only if you play in tournaments governed by United States Golf Association rules. If you're a typical recreational hacker, for whom golf is an exercise in futility and frustration, what's wrong with playing a ball that you can actually keep in the fairway?

Absolutely nothing, said Dave Felker, the CEO of Polara Golf, which manufactures and sells anti-slice golf balls and nonconforming drivers proven conclusively to work.

"We help golfers have more fun," said Felker, a Marshfield native and UW-Eau Claire graduate.

Polara's products are geared to the 78% of golfers who indicated in a December 2012 Google Consumer Survey that they played for fun; only 22% played according to the Rules of Golf.

"There is a double standard that's perpetuated by the golf companies," Felker said. "It goes back to the way they spend their marketing dollars. They can't have Phil Mickelson say, 'We'd like you to cheat today.' Those golf companies sell only conforming equipment.

"And in reality probably the worst thing the average golfer can do is play the same driver Tiger or Phil plays. The equipment does not benefit the average golfer the way it does the pro golfer."

Felker knows what he's talking about. He has a PhD in chemical engineering and worked at DuPont for 14 years before the late Ely Callaway recruited him to develop a golf ball for Callaway Golf.

"We spent $200 million and the next thing you knew we had the Callaway Rule 35 golf ball, which was the (Titleist) Pro V1 before there was a Pro V1," Felker said.

Polara had entered the golf ball market in the 1970s and the ball worked as advertised because of its asymmetrical dimple configuration. In 1981, the USGA ruled that balls must have a symmetrical dimple pattern in order to conform to the rules.

"They were originally conforming, but the golf companies wanted them out," Felker said. "It's a fascinating story about the politics and the crap that goes on behind closed doors at the USGA."

Polara sued the USGA, which eventually agreed to pay a settlement of $1.4 million.

The Polara disappeared, however, until Felker, who by then had left Callaway, resurrected it three years ago. His Polara Ultimate Straight ball was a huge improvement on the original and corrected hooks and slices by 95%.

"It took a 100-foot slice and brought it back to 5 feet of center," Felker said. "It was a little shorter than we wanted it to be so we compromised with a product that was 75% correcting."

In May 2011, the New York Times ran a front-page story on the rebirth of the Polara, sparking a media blitz and creating demand that crashed Polara Golf's computer server for hours.

In January 2012, Polara introduced its new XD and XDS models, which produced a higher ball flight and increased distance.

Felker said most golfers were skeptical of Polara's claims until they actually tried the ball.

"Almost 45% of the people who try it buy it on the spot," he said.

Polara also makes nonconforming drivers with thin titanium faces that exceed the USGA's limit for coefficient of restitution, or the so-called "trampoline effect."

"With the Polara golf ball and the Polara driver, I can hit almost every fairway," said Felker, who plays to a 28 handicap. "I've been hugged and kissed by a lot of golfers who are so happy that we cured their slice."

Felker predicted it wouldn't be long before traditional equipment companies started making and marketing nonconforming equipment. He said TaylorMade plans to sell such equipment, geared toward recreational golfers, in the near future.

"Everybody recognizes recreational golf is where everything is moving," he said. "It's the big growth area in golf. There is no other growth area.

"The recreational market is underserved. There are 17 million recreational golfers and if you offer them a product that will help their game, 63% say they don't care if it conforms or not. They will buy it if it helps them."

Polara products can be ordered at www.polaragolf.com.

"We've basically scratched the surface," Felker said. "As far as recognition, a small fraction of golfers know who we are. But 63% of golfers will play nonconforming equipment if it helps their game. It's a huge market. And once the other golf companies start doing this and give permission, so to speak, it's going to go to 85%."

None of them will be a U.S. Open champion. But who cares?

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Golf Truisms

 Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it.

Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either use one more club or two more balls.

If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there.

The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all of your many other errors.

Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.

A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent' s luck.

It is surprisingly easy to hole a 30 foot putt - for a 10.

Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.

Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

It's not a gimme if you're still away.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

You can hit a two acre fairway 10% of the time and a two inch branch 90% of the time.

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.

When you look up, causing an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.

Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two double bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

To calculate the speed of a player's downswing, multiply the speed of his back swing by his handicap; i.e., back-swing 20 mph, handicap 15, downswing = 300 mph.

There are two things you can learn by stopping your back swing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

Hazards attract; fairways repel.

A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.

If there is a ball on the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker. If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint

It's easier to get up at 6:00 AM to play golf than at 10:00 AM to mow the grass.

A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game.

Golf is the perfect thing to do on Sunday because you spend longer praying than you would do in church.

A good golf partner is one who's always slightly worse than you are, that's why I get so many calls to play with friends.

If there's a storm rolling in, you'll be having the game of your life.

Golf balls are like eggs. They're white. They're sold by the dozen and you need to buy fresh ones each week.

It's amazing how a golfer who never helps out around the house will replace his divots, repair his ball marks, and rake his sand traps.

If your opponent has trouble remembering whether he shot a six or a seven, he probably shot an eight (or worse)...

It takes longer to learn to be a good golfer than it does to become a brain surgeon. On the other hand, you don't get to ride around on a cart, drink beer, and eat hot dogs when you are performing brain surgery!