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The company\u2019s website calls the \u201cCADET a revolutionary golf club and shoe cleaning tool that lets you get your clubs ready on the way to the next shot.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s a modest sort of revolution, but one I can support.\u00a0 First, it encourages walking, which is essential to the long-term health of the game; and two, it should help keep the goose poop from gumming up your shoes.\u00a0\u00a0 This may not be a big deal to you<\/em>, but if you play most of your rounds in Portland, Oregon, as I do, keeping goose droppings from accumulating on your shoes like wet clay on a rainy Georgia day means a lot.\u00a0 In the interest of full disclosure, I want to say that Mark and his dad, Luis, who were manning their booth, gave<\/em>me a Cadet to try, so I am predisposed to like it, and hope it works as well as it looks as if it will.\u00a0 I promise to update this report after I have had a chance to attach it to my Clicgear cart and try it out for a round or two this spring.\u00a0 I know the courses will be wet and well saturated with goose gunk, so it will be a fair test.\u00a0 And thanks, Mark, for the free sample.<\/p>\n I also saw a very small booth that had a pair of trousers draped over a washboard with a nozzle spraying water on them.\u00a0 The trousers shed the water and seemed not wet at all, which Driwalk\u00a0Director of Global Advertising Steve Treisman, an Aussie who also has his products made in China, says is an absolutely true representation of how his trousers and shirts perform in the real world.\u00a0 The polyester fabric is very light weight and soft to the touch, and has the advantage over normal rain gear of looking like regular clothes\u2014so you\u2019re good to go if it\u2019s dry, but you don\u2019t have to start adding layers if a squall comes up.\u00a0 I liked the look and feel of the fabrics, which Steve says he wears all the time.\u00a0 The other advantage his clothes have, he says, is that they can withstand many more washing cycles\u2014up to 100\u2014than other fabrics claiming similar water-proof performance.\u00a0 I really liked these \u201cDriwalk Hybrid Performance\u201d outfits and hope Steve finds a US distributor because I would buy and use them, assuming they\u2019re made in big gringo sizes and not just the small-boy samples I saw.<\/p>\n Another product I saw kind of stretches the boundaries of true golf innovation, but I liked Pykamo <\/a>for its optimism about the future of the game.\u00a0 Created by Maurice Duhamel in Quebec, Pykamo is a light-weight, plastic molded set of children\u2019s golf clubs that are designed to be used with a soft foam ball.\u00a0He calls it “golf for everybody.” \u00a0It\u2019s a way for kids to swing a club in the proper way but not to hit a ball through grandma\u2019s front window.\u00a0 It has a molded tee box and \u201chole,\u201d and should be at least as fun as croquet.\u00a0 Maurice also thinks it could be a great indoor recess activity in the schools, one of the few reasonable proposals I have ever heard for getting some version of golf into the PE curriculum.<\/p>\n
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