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why the media has been raving so much about Visiball Golf Ball
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News (CTV Edmonton) - May 13, 2005 "Get
A Grip" - They're called Golf Ball Finders, recently
named best new product on the market. Does it stand
up? Absolutely...yes it does!
The white really stands out. Something must be working
because stores are selling out.
They're awesome! I don't lose my ball a lot but the
odd time...when it's in the rough, it does help out
quite a bit. Phil Mickelson needed the glasses to find
his ball in round one of the classic.
Dave Mitchell, CFRN Sports |
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Reader's
Digest : Golf Ball Finders
March 2005.
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Golf
Gear Review: O Ball Where Art Thou?
March 2005.
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Finney
Finds Out: Puts Golf Glasses to the test
As seen on ABC TV and Fox Sports - February,
2005.
Television interviews and reports have previously
aired on: Global T.V., Report on Business Teleivison
(ROB TV) and CITY TV. |
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The
Hamilton Spectator
"Ball finder a big boon to golfers"
May 2004.
Linda Penhale, left, and Marilyn Costello gambled their
savings for the Canadian rights to Visiball Golf Ball
finders.
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Score Golf Magazine, July,
2004.
Does it work?
-Reviewer: Kevin Hobbs, a 15-handicap from Port Perry,
Ont.
I tested this product at two courses I know to have
cow pasture-like rough. I found these glasses immediately
beneficial when trying to find lost or errant tee shots.
Of course it's still important to keep your eye on the
ball and it's flight path so you have a general idea
where to look, but I found once I was in the rough and
looking for my ball the process of finding it was sped
up immensely. With this product in hand I felt I could
be more aggressive off the tee because I wasn't as worried
about losing balls in gnarly rough, something every
golf has had to experience at one time or another. |
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Fairways - New Products,
Mid-Summer, 2004.
Visiball - Golf Ball Finders
Lost balls are a pain. Notwithstanding the penalty strokes,
searching for them contributes to slow play and then
there is the cost of replacing them. With Visiball -
Golf Ball Finders, Players stand a better than ever
chance of finding lost balls, their own and plenty of
others too. The specially designed glasses filter out
most of the colour and provide a grayish blue shading
to everything you see. The reflecting off of white objects
appears to glow through the lenses making balls stand
out from the surrounding vegetation and grass. |
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Turf & Recreation
Magazine (Industry Publication), May 2004
Golf course superintendents
will also appreciate new ball-finding glasses.
Primarily used for their ability to speed up play,
the glasses also have the potential to prevent balls
from getting chopped up by rough mowers or getting caught
in the workings of maintenance machinery.
Individual golf courses benefit because the glasses
help speed up play. Feedback from pro shops that carry
and encourage use of the product suggest rounds have
been shortened by an average of 12 minutes. |
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The
National Post
A gimme: Marilyn Costello,left and Linda Penhale think
they have a shot at a winner. They hold the exclusive
distribution rights in Canada for wraparound eyeglasses
that help golfers see a ball that has gone astray.
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The
Toronto Sun
Linda Penhale, left, and Marilyn Costello find golf
balls using special goggles.
Sales are through the roof.
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The Montreal Gazette.
New Accessory Leads To Second Career.
Sales of Visiball Golf Ball Finders have taken
off at golf specialty stores across the country. "There's
absolutely no question, Visiball is one of the hottest
items we stocked in 2003," said Jennifer
Steckel-Elliott, vice-president of marketing at the national
golf-supply store, Golf Town.
Other market opportunities are also emerging. Visiball
has proven to be a popular corporate gift when the carrying
case is embossed with the logo of such clients as Carlson
Wagonlit, Microsoft, McCarthy Tetrault, Guardian Capital,
Bennett Jones, and Fasken Martineau |
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Ottawa Citizen - Front
Page Story - March 6, 2004.
"High-tech Glasses Help Duffers Find Errant Shots"
The glasses have already scored points with players,
golf stores and golf pros with sales reaching 25,000
shortly after being introduced. Pro Golf on Carling
Avenue and Chuck Brown Golf are two retail outlets selling
the eyeglasses. Shannon Brown, a co-owner of Chuck Brown
Golf on Somerset Street, said the product is a hit with
golfers frustrated after years of losing dozens of golf
balls in the tall grass or in the woods" |
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Toronto Life Magazine -
"Finders Keepers"
Golf is somewhat silly: fully grown people whack
a tiny ball with a stick, only to lose sight of it once
they are successful. But with these clever new Golf
Ball Finders, at least lost golf balls needn't be a
recreational hazard.
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Sales Promotion Magazine
- Holiday Gift Ideas
Anyone who read comics as a child will remember
the ads that ran in the back of the books hawking the
genuine X-Ray glasses. All it took was a money order
for $1.25 and six to eight weeks and you'd have a pair.
The only problem was they didn't really work. Visiball
Golf Ball Finders, an all-Canadian invention recently
featured in Report on Business Television that are oddly
reminiscent of the old comic novelty, except these ones
work. |
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CBC Radio"
With each mighty swing of the golf
club, the inevitable danger of losing that tiny ball
in the rough grows. But there are three guys
in New Brunswick who don't have to worry about losing
their balls anymore. They've invented special eyeglasses.
Tom Chapman came up with the idea." |
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eVentLife - Cool
Stuff - Kelowna B.C.
Another one of the converted. Jason Winegarden
of Nevada Bob's, says, "Since people have
heard about these glasses, we have sold out of
our first shipment and the waiting list for the
second shipment is 45 strong and growing. It's
a very cool product". |
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Doctor's Review -
by Calvin Becker, Resident Golf Doctor - Liven
Up The Links
What were those newbie scientists up to?
Talk about a great way to impress your partners:
they'll think it's that eagle eye of yours spotting
their balls in the rough - and not the shades
you're wearing. |
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| Dolce
Magazine - "Gotta Have It"
Nothing is harder to spot than a tiny white
golf ball soaring through the air on a bright
afternoon spent on the green, but with Visiball's
innovative and scientifically proven sunglasses,
tracing your golf ball is an absolute breeze. |
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