173 - A Win/Win...

Check me out; I’m a big winner!!! I buy a fair bit of stuff from onlinegolf.co.uk and they have a monthly competition where you can submit a review from one of your purchases and if it is good enough you win £100 in vouchers for their site. I submitted a review and it was good enough!

I wrote on here recently about the excellent Oakley Squares sunglasses that look great and work superbly. That article was pretty much the review I sent in to onlinegolf, which as it turns out, they loved. Kerching! I’m a ton up boys and girls.

I write on this blog all the time but it never actually occurred to me that my fevered rantings could make any money (or vouchers in this case). Never the less I’m now reaping the rewards of my literary ability (either that or it was a slow review month at onlinegolf.co.uk).

So, I’ve now got a 100 nuggets burning a hole in my pocket, well actually I haven’t, I’ve spent them already! You know me, I’m a sucker for shiny, new things so I was straight onto the website, perusing all the lovely, lovely gear they had to offer.

What would it be? A Ralph Lauren polo shirt or two? How about some sexy Galvin Green waterproof goodness? Oooh, what about a bit of technological pornography in the shape of either a Bushnell range finder or a Garmin GPS system? With so much on offer I made the obvious choice, a trolley.

Now I know that a trolley doesn’t sound the most glamorous of purchases (especially when you hear it isn’t even electric) but it something that I really need. I could make do without another polo shirt or another waterproof and to me using rangefinders or a GPS system is simply cheating. No, a trolley it is.

As we speak there is a fabulous Sun Mountain Micro Golf Cart (above) winging its way to me. This little four-wheeled beast is, according to the reviews, fantastic so I took the plunge and ordered it. Expect a full review once I get my sweaty little paws on it.

165 - Strike Two...

I wanted a shirt to help me stay cool and dry on the course (when I haul my carcass down there), look cool and dry on the course but I didn’t want something too obvious. With that in mind I bought myself a couple of Oakley Strike polo shirts.

Why the Oakley Strike I hear no-one scream? I’m glad you didn’t ask! The polo’s are made from clever materials; they are well designed and not only were they well priced but were available as part of a 2-for-1 offer at onlinegolf.co.uk. Seemed like a bit of a no brainer to me.

So how do they work? I’m glad you didn’t ask again! Well, the surface of the shirt is woven into a small hexagonal pattern and, according to the bumf, it is constructed from a material that is breathable and incorporates moisture wicking properties to help evaporate perspiration. Interesting.

Also, thanks to some clever technology, you remain odour free. I’ll believe that when I see it (or not smell it I suppose).

After every round I am sweating like a glass blowers arse so if this bit of kit can help me keep dry and fragrant I’ll be impressed – or I’ll be wearing an Always Ultra I suppose. Ahem…

The other thing I really like about these shirts, and Oakley shirts in general, is that they fit me properly. Oakley is an American company and I’m build like an American these days which is usually a pain when it come to buying clothing, but not with this firm.

These are all season shirts too. The polo’s are light enough to be worn over a base layer or under a jumper so they can be worn in autumn when it is freezing, winter when it is freezing, spring when it is freezing or summer when it is, erm, freezing. I like this versatility.

Choosing Oakley instead of the more obvious manufacturers is a subtle way of standing out but a more obvious way is to buy the shirt in Brilliant Blue like I did (above). The colour is so loud it will give you tinnitus at a range of half a mile, which is my favourite thing about the top.