VENTURA, Calif. -- It's the perfect Father's Day gift for the dad who has everything in his golf bag - save a reliable short game. And a reliable short game is what Herbie's One Putt Wedge is all about.
The innovative wedge-putter hybrid was created to make the short game easier and recognizing this, longtime club designer Kit Mungo - the creator of the One Putt Wedge - introduced a Father's Day special. United States. customers purchasing the One Putt Wedge at www.oneputtwedge.com will receive free shipping and a free headcover for a club that has already captured the imagination of many in the golf world.
"A golf club for the 21st century" is what Jay Radzavicz, Producer of Golf Channel's Champions Tour Learning Center, called the One Putt Wedge.
"It has taken the terror and mystery out of my short game and provided consistency… It has taken me from pathetic to competent with very little practice. Even the occasional bad shot still goes straight," wrote Golf Australia Columnist Brendan Moloney.
This is what Herb Hyman, the founder of the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, intended when he conceived the club that eventually became the One Putt Wedge. Frustrated with the bane of all recreational golfers - an inconsistent short game from inside of 100 yards - Hyman went back to his entrepreneurial roots and came up with the concept of a club that keeps the hands forward of the ball and promotes a pendulum stroke.
He took that idea to Mungo, a longtime club fitter and designer, who spent three years getting the One Putt Wedge designed, built and approved by the USGA - an important factor for both Hyman and Mungo. The One Putt Wedge is fully conforming and approved for all levels of competition.
This means dads of all abilities can take advantage of what the One Putt Wedge promotes with its design: that pendulum stroke that is essential to an effective and repeatable short game - which all golfers realize is the key to shaving strokes.
"One of the hardest things of hitting a chip shot is that it requires the arms and wrists to open and close the clubface at the precise moment of contact," Mungo said. "With this design, players use a pendulum stroke which makes it simple to get the clubface on the ball squarely every time."
The club's ingenious design, which integrates the mass and weight associated with mallet putters along with the flange and sharp leading edge of the traditional sand wedge, allows you to effortlessly hit a variety of shots: from the fairway, the fringe, the deep rough, the not-so-deep rough and the sand.
Herbie's One Putt Wedge is practical for any shot inside of 100 yards. The club features 48 degrees of loft, but its design makes it effectively a club practical for shots ranging from 8-iron
chips to sand wedge explosions from the bunker to high, soft-landing shots to tucked pins.
Herbie's One Putt Wedge retails for $139. It is available at http://oneputtwedge.bvcommerce.com/ for both men and women in both left- and right-hand models.
For more information, please contact Mungo at kitmungo@oneputtwedge.com or visit the Web site at www.oneputtwedge.com.
ABOUT A BETTER CLUB INC.
A Better Club, Inc. was founded in 1990 by Kit Mungo and Golf Professional Erin Rea under the tutelage of renowned club designer Phil Skavronski. A Better Club is built on sound fundamental golf club design that has served players such as Arnold Palmer, Tom Weiskopf, Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh. The company is devoted to designing golf clubs from concept to production in a custom-made environment and blends high performance results into practical club-fitting techniques for both Tour pros and amateurs alike.
