SAN DIEGO, CA – March 25, 2008 – SKLZ, the industry leader in sports skill development products and equipment, today announced that the company has appointed TEN Marketing & Public Relations to provide public relations and promotional services for its new SKLZ Golf/Rick Smith Signature Series line.
“Tracy and her team at TEN Marketing and Public Relations have been instrumental with many highly successful golf launches. Their industry relationships, golf knowledge, and enthusiasm, made this appointment easy,” said Tom Quinn, President, SKLZ. “We’re looking forward to working with them.”
“We are familiar with the training products SKLZ has developed for other sports and we instantly saw the benefit of offering a complete line of training products to help golfers improve their games. The fact that Rick Smith is part of the product development team adds to the credibility and integrity of the product line. We look forward to helping SKLZ build their brand in the golf industry and reach golfers who will immediately benefit from using their products,” said Tracy Nackel, President, TEN Marketing & Public Relations.
Rick Smith, well known as one of the PGA Tour’s top instructors, has been integral to the development of a complete line of SKLZ training products to help golfers gain more distance, eliminate slices, and putt better for lower scores.
Merchandised for easy reference under the categories of Distance, Accuracy, Putting, and Practice, the broad SKLZ golf line both improves upon industry mainstays and offers completely new training concepts. Updates to better known trainers include products such as: Swing Accelerator weighted clubs with their patented internal weighting system; Refiner dual-adjustable hinged clubs; and Slice Eliminator for grooving an in-to-in swing path.
Additionally, SKLZ has gone beyond more traditional types of golf teaching aides to include fresh new training products such as: the Gyro Swing training club with a gyroscope in its clubhead that forces golfers to stay on the correct plane with a perfectly timed release; the Power Sleeve weighted sleeve that fits on the shaft of any club in your bag and helps improve tempo, timing, distance, strength and accuracy; the Pure-Strike sweet spot trainer with balls that stick to your clubface to show your contact at impact; the unique Refiner dual-adjustable hinged putter; and the Rip-N-Grip home driving and chipping range with balls that stick to a Velcro® screen to show your accuracy and trajectory.
“Finally, you can get a comprehensive set of training tools to improve your golf game, all from one brand,” says Smith. “And with my name on this line, I’m obviously a huge believer in what it can do to help any golfer.”
The SKLZ Rick Smith Signature Series of golf training products is available at sporting goods and golf specialty retailers and at the SKLZ.com web site.
About SKLZ
SKLZ, the San Diego, California based company, is the industry leader in developing and marketing sports skill development trainers to serious athletes of all ages. The flagship brand of Pro Performance Sports, SKLZ builds on the popularity of the company’s industry-leading baseball product, the Hit-A-Way, to deliver broad lines of training products across a variety of sports. The company offers a Rick Smith Signature Series line of golf training products designed to help golfers gain more distance, eliminate slices, and putt better for lower scores. For more information about the company and its products, call toll-free 877-225-7275 or visit www.SKLZ.com.
TEN Marketing & Public Relations consists of collaborators Vanessa Price and Tracy Nackel. Their combined efforts have been providing results-driven public relations, marketing and advertising services to the golf industry for well over a decade. For more information on the SKLZ Golf/Rick Smith Signature Series line please contact Vanessa Price at 714-544-6515 / readthegreens@aol.com or Tracy Nackel at 760-420-1602 / tnackel@cox.net.
Contact:
Tracy Nackel, TEN Marketing & Public Relations, tnackel@cox.net, 760-633-1602
Vanessa Price, TEN Marketing & Public Relations, readthegreens@aol.com, 714-544-6515
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