Hi-Tec Professional Pro

Advantages: great feel and distance
Disadvantages: cost

...I have been playing golf for 15 years and always play with a Titleist ball. It's something of a habit, but the ball suits my game. In cold wet conditions I'll play with the pts wound ball, and in dry summer conditions the professional balata. That was until I tried the newest product from Titleist, the pro V1. It is the tour professionals choice of ball combining both distance and feel.It is longer off the tee than the balata ball but gets enormous spin around the green. I'm not sure how Titleist have done it, but I was amazed at the extra length I got off the tee and the control and spin I got around the green. Putting with it is a dream, the ball doesn't fly off the putter like the wound ball. At the moment the cost of the ball will put off all but the most accomplished golfer, at £35 a dozen you don't really want to 'lose' a ball... Read review

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Advantages: Goes FAR further than the average golf ball
Disadvantages: Can only be used successfully by the top players

...~ ~ It’s appropriate that I should be writing about the new golf ball from Titleist, the Pro V1x, as I sit watching the last nine holes of the 2003 U.S. Master’s Championship at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. As I type, past Master’s champion Vijay Singh has just launched yet another absolutely enormous drive of well over 330 yards down the 10th fairway, leaving him a relatively simple pitch shot to a par 4 that measures all of 490 yards, and which ordinary mortals could only dream of reaching in two shots. (Singh has just birdied the 10th hole, by the way) I mention Singh, as he is one of more than 50% of touring professionals who are now using the Pro V1x in preference to any other type of golf ball. ~ ~ The Titleist Pro V1x is the successor to the Titleist Pro V1, which Titleist launched back... Read review

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Advantages: Light and welcoming to get you motivated
Disadvantages: An expensive luxury if you don't attend often!

...without children as there is a seperate area in the changing rooms and the cafe. On the other hand, if you have little ones, there's a creche and place to have birthday parties. Traveling upstairs there there's a new hi-tec spinning area with large plasma screen - looks like torture. The gym has all the normal equipment - bikes, cross trainers, treadmills, weights - no free weights at the moment and that was a stark contrast to my last London gym which had more state of the art free weight equipment. But unlike London I have NEVER had to queue for a piece of equipment and I've used the gym at lots of different times of the day. There are always members of staff around who can help you with advice or a little bit of encouragement for the easily fatigued! If you're into classes, there are a couple of studios. Yoga is my thing, and in my... Read review

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