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SKLZ Rick Smith Launch Pad - All Purpose Hitting Mat

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List Price: $29.99
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Studio: Pro Performance
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 Stars

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Product Description: Hitting Mat: Tee Fairway Rough. Practice all your shots in the right lies. The Launch Pad lets you hit off the tee, on the fairway, or out of the rough. Practice driving, iron shots, and short game.

Amazon.com Product Description: Practice all your shots in a variety of lies with the SKLZ Rick Smith Launch Pad all-purpose hitting mat. The mat offers several hitting surfaces: a trio of tees for hitting with oversized drivers, fairway woods, or irons, a fairway surface that simulates the feel of short grass, and a rough surface that mimics the conditions of swinging through a tough lie.

The Launch Pad offers 3 tees for drivers, woods, and irons.

Includes rough surface for practicing a tough lie.

As a result, you can practice your drives, iron shots, and short game just about anywhere, provided you have enough room to swing a club. The heavy-duty, non-slip rubber mat measures 1 by 2 feet, with a realistic grass surface that simulates a genuine golf course feel.

About Rick Smith
Famed golf instructor Rick Smith has helped guide some of the most accomplished golfers in the world to major championship wins, including three-time major winner Phil Mickelson and two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen. He's also worked with such golf luminaries as Jack Nicklaus, Vijay Singh, Paul Azinger, Greg Norman, David Duval, Billy Andrade, and Raymond Floyd. Regarded as one of the PGA Tour's best sounding boards for swing advice and consistently ranked one of the top 10 golf instructors in the world by Golf Digest magazine, Smithy currently runs Rick Smith Golf Academies at the Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan, and Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida.

About SKLZ
The flagship brand of Pro Performance Sports LLC, SKLZ was built around the popularity of the company's legendary baseball swing trainer, the Hit-A-Way. After starting with a complete line of baseball and softball trainers, the company expanded into football, tennis, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and most recently, a full spectrum of golf training products. Headquartered in San Diego, the SKLZ team consists of both seasoned professionals and young upstarts in the sporting goods industry who are passionate about delivering the best skill development products to athletes of all ages.

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Great idea, not well made: Reviewer: Karl Groves (Baltimore, MD), Date of review: August 22, 2010; RAvg. Customer Rating: 1 Star; I don't really have anything new to add here that hasn't already been said. The concept of this product is awesome. Two different levels of turf you can use to practice driving and chipping in a relatively compact package. The problem, as others have said, is that the product is poorly made. It only took a few chip shots before the turf began to separate from the mat. I would be surprised if this fact was not already known by the manufacturer - unless they don't test their own products before releasing to market. It is such an obvious flaw in the design.

Don't buy this.: Reviewer: Tim Landrum (Stratford, CT, US), Date of review: July 30, 2010; RAvg. Customer Rating: 1 Star; The turf separated from the rubber backing after about 100 balls hit. Cheap glue is my guess. Waste of money.

Practice hitting mat.: Reviewer: Gordon P. Jones (Wild Rose, WI USA), Date of review: July 23, 2010; Avg. Customer Rating: 3 Stars; The mat arrived in excellent condition. I appreciated the two practice tees of differing length. Unfortunately, hitting balls off of the mat surface leaves a green residue on the clubs that takes some scrubbing to remove.

golf pratice net: Reviewer: Elliott Calabaza (SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, US), Date of review: March 03, 2010; RAvg. Customer Rating: 1 Star; good product, if hitting for less than a month, easy to tear and "grass" easy to come off, all glued product

Does the job: Reviewer: Tarheels71 (NJ), Date of review: February 26, 2010; Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars; Maybe the poor reviewers received "lemons" but the one I have is great! It serves its purpose well and has helped me keep my sanity by allowing me to practice my swing inside during the snow storms. The two tees (of different height) also help simulate tee shots with your driver and irons.