Golf Gifts Tips

Recognize Your #1 Golfer

Make your golfer a special golf tournament gift pack. Most prize packs for doing well in a local golf tournament include:
* Golf t shirts
* Golf balls
* Golf stickers
* Golf can coolers
* Golf hats
* Golf trophies

- why wait for him or her to win a tournament? Get an inexpensive basket, or one of those cool colored buckets (perhaps something that could ultimately double as a beer cooler - you get the idea) and then head off to your local golf club pro shop to fill it up.

Grab all of the ingredients for your gift bucket that will make your golfer excited. Then mosey on over to your local trophy shop and have one made up for your # 1 Golfer!

When they get home for your celebration, they will feel like they won a different kind of tournament and they will enjoy every part of their unique golf gift.

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Beginning Golfers

If your golfer is a beginner, all those clubs may seem confusing. While he or she is learning, give them a cool gadget to help them out on the course.

A tool like the virtual caddy golf scope will tell you which club to use when you enter in your profile, including your gender, level of skill and where the ball lies. It can even save the settings for you and your partner, and is water resistant.

Once your favorite golfer knows what he or she doing, they can just use it for fun and novelty. Pair this with a new fancy driver, and you are one great unique golf gifter!

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Shock and Golf

Maybe you want to give your golfer a weekend of golf away at some terrific golf resort. Make it an awesome surprise.

1. Tell him or her that you are going to Florida to visit their in-laws for a weekend with the kids.
2. Have them bring the golf clubs "just in case" there is time.
3. When you arrive, give them the keys to their rental convertible (that you have already taken care of...) and the brochure to the best golf resort you can afford. (Hopefully you have arranged for him or her to meet their best golf buddies at the resort.)

You go along to your parent's and leave your spouse with a surprise get out of in-law's free card! They will love the surprise and you have set yourself up with extra help wrangling the kids during the weekend when your spouse is away. Everyone is happy!

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Golf Clubs as Golf Gifts

Most folks would think an ideal gift for a golfer would be new clubs, or even just a new specific club, like a putter. If you aren't a golfer, though, you may not know the complexities you are about to encounter.

For instance, there are three kinds of putters:
* Conventional
* Belly
* Long

Did you know that prices can range from $20.00 to $500.00?

Additionally, most golf putter and club reviewers feel the same way, it is not necessarily how much you spend, but your technique and your comfort level with a club that will determine your success.

Therefore, unless you know the specific brand and model your golfer wants, after he or she has shopped around and tried out the look and feel of a club and chosen a brand and type in accordance with their putting ability, you may want to avoid buying that new putter and stick to other golf accessories instead.

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Golf Gift Ideas

Some miscellaneous Golf Gift Ideas:

• Make sure your golfer has the time all the time. Some wrist watches may impede technique for both driving and putting since the wrist plays such a major part in your golfer's success. They make terrific watches nowadays that are water resistant and that clip to golf bags. Of course, most golfers just want a leisurely day on the course, but this is a terrific gift for the corporate golfer who needs to manage time and relaxation.

• Is your golfer protecting him or herself adequately from the sun? Awareness of skin cancer and the dangers of melanoma are rising but not everyone protects themselves well enough. A baseball cap is all well and good, but what is protecting your golfer's neck from that strong mid-day sun? Try to find them a crushproof hat with a brim wide enough to offer protection of face, ears and neck while still looking good. An extra bottle of sunscreen in their golf bag won't hurt either. (Remember to store your sunscreen in a sealed plastic bag, sunscreen all over your golf bag is no fun).

• Support your golfer's fitness habit. Consider grabbing a golfer's pedometer so he or she can really quantify the awesome amount of low impact exercise they are getting. If you do this, perhaps they will want to go for that extra sunset stroll during the week so their golf game is less fatiguing.

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Golf Lessons

Generally speaking, you can break a golf swing into six steps or positions:
1. Golf stance position and posture
2. Align your Golf Club
3. “Take Away”
4. Back Swing
5. Impact with the Ball
6. Follow Through

You will hear different advice from everyone on how to improve any part of these six aspects of your swing. If you are thinking of a great gift for a golfer who is having trouble with his or her own swing, consider a gift of lessons from your local driving range golf pro. Find someone you think your golfer will really like and learn from and sign them up! Add to this some free sessions at the driving range, and maybe a “get out of home free” card to encourage them to take a day on the green.

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Golf Movie Night

Maybe your golfer is completely set up with the equipment, gadgets and clubs they always dreamed of. How about a golf themed movie gift?

Hit your local DVD store and pick up movies like:
* Happy Gilmore
* Tin Cup
* Dead Solid Perfect
* Caddy Shack
* The Legend of Bagger Vance

Of course it will depend on the sense of humor of your gift recipient as to which movies you should grab. If you need more information, check out the Internet Movie database at http://www.imdb.com.

To present your movie night the right way, go to your local sporting goods store and try to grab a golf ball bucket (grab some extra golf balls while you are there - it never hurts to have extra) and arrange the movies in the golf ball bucket with the new golf balls.

Tie a bow on it and you have a terrific golf themed gift that will keep your golfer entertained and on the couch instead of on the green!

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Beverages in Style on the Course

Golf is hugely popular with college age and young guys. They may not like the boring and typical gifts you might find for an older golfer. Don't worry though, there is a solution to this problem.

Grab them an electronic drink caddie for their golf bag! This insulated golf accessory looks like a golf club but actually holds cold and hot drinks that can be dispensed with the press of a button!

Add to this a bartender pocket handbook with some simple recipes for cool drinks to bring along on the course. His friends will LOVE him, even if his golf game won't.

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