Ever since seeing The Golf Channel's Playing Lessons from the Pros with Cobra Long-Drive Champs Jason Zuback and Brian Pavlet, I've been intrigued by the "Stinger tee." Zuback and Pavlet recommended it as "necessary equipment" that gives them an advantage. When LPGA cutie Laura Diaz professed to using the same tees in her Playing Lesson I had to give Earl Weiss, owner of Stinger Tees, a ring.
A few days later, I had my grubby paws on some 2¼" and 3" Pro XL Competition Stinger tees. The tees are as attractive - the natural wood grain doesn't leave paint marks on my clubs - as they are functional. The thinner tees are easier to stick into hard ground and the sharper points make these tees great groove cleaners. My course's superintendent is a fan of Stinger tees too: "they don't chew up our mower blades as much as thicker tees or those damned plastic tees."
I've heard plenty of horror stories of people dropping their golf bag in the rack outside the pro shop, running into the bathroom or some such activity, coming out and finding clubs or even their whole bag missing. To try to curb this kind of theft, a new and interesting twist on golf bag design is here from Burton Golf called the 
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