Golf News for Wednesday, March 23, 2005 | Technology

FlightScope by EDH Sport has been selected by Maryland-based Mammoth Golf for use in its facilities

Bethlehem, Pa. (March 17, 2005) - FlightScope by EDH Sport, a premier ball-flight monitor, has been selected by Mammoth Golf for use in its facilities. Mammoth Golf, based in Maryland, has announced the Grand Opening of its Titonium Superstore March 19. Additonal locations are in Columbia, Md., and at Hobbits Glen CC, also in Columbia.

“FlightScope has all the options that we want,” said Chuck Freedman, a Mammoth Golf manager, “and its technology is far advanced. It’s twofold: we can teach with it if we want to, and it gives us all the data we are looking for when fitting golf clubs. And we can use FlightScope indoors and outdoors.”

FlightScope is in use at high-profile teaching academies and club-fitting venues around the world. Introduced at last year's PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla., the portable indoor-outdoor ball-flight monitor employs a Phase Array Tracking Sensor and proprietary technology to record accurately the ball in flight and to provide actual launch data. The characteristic distinguishing FlightScope from existing launch monitor technology is that FlightScope is the only product in the world that can record the ball flight accurately in the precise environment in which the ball travels, thereby providing actual rather than implied data. The resultant ability of golfers, club fitters and instructors to see the actual ball trajectory at various angles allows them to make precise adjustments for enhanced performance.

“First-class facilities in the golf industry use first-class technology to help their businesses and their clients perform,” said Marc Solda, president of EDH Sport. “EDH Sport has worked hard to help spread that message throughout the industy, and we now are seeing the results. FlightScope’s benefits for club fitters, teaching academies, green grass facilities, ranges and retailers now are widely recognized.”

Awareness of the advanced technology of FlightScope by EDH Sport has increased vastly this past year. FlightScope provided its technology to Golf Digest for use during some of the magazine's equipment testing sessions for its second annual "Hot List" published in its February 2005 edition. FlightScope is in use at Golf Stix, Ltd., a leading club-fitting operation based in San Antonio. Golf Stix has incorporated FlightScope both into its club-fitting shop and into its mobile fitting center. Also, FlightScope technology was installed last year at the PGA of America Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and was featured during Play Golf America Day, Dec. 8, and during the PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit, Dec. 9-12.

EDH, founded in 1989 by Henri Johnson, an inventor and electronic engineer, is a product-development company based in Stellenbosch, near Cape Town in South Africa, with its U.S. office in Bethlehem, Pa. EDH, which develops products for the military and sports markets, has as its core expertise the design and development of 3D tracking radar systems. In 2003 the EDH Golf system was launched under the name "FlightScope."

For more information, see www.edhsport.us or call 866-GOLF-EDH.

Media Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
(telephone) 407-293-5075
(e-mail) sjsport@earthlink.net



 
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