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The Bag Boy Automatic Trolley is a product combining the elegance of both innovative technology and design. This three-wheel trolley is notable for its ease of use as it can be assembled and packed away in one smooth motion, making it unique amongst its rivals. The ease of which the Bag Boy Automatic is both collapsed and assembled is complemented by a low profile chassis, wide contact ergonomics, high speed bearings and a newly designed G Force wheel that has been designed to improve manoeuvrability. The addition of such groundbreaking technologies make the Bag Boy Automatic one of the most feature-laden trolleys currently available on the market.

There are a number of added extras that increase the value of an already excellent package. These include a special brake that allows the trolley to be parked in a specific location, an adjustable handle, a designated holster designed to carry refreshments and valuables, and a bag bracket system that caters for the ranging sizes of junior, ladies and men’s bags available.

The Bay Boy Automatic promises to provide golfers with everything they need in a push trolley, with the addition of some luxurious extras that seasoned players will especially appreciate. The perfect accessory for any golfer looking to travel around the golf course in style during the summer months, the Bag Boy Automatic Titanium Trolley is perfectly suited for golfers looking for a trolley that can fold away with consummate ease.

The new Mizuno MP-68 surpasses previous expectations by providing golfers with a club that combines all the best features of Mizuno's now legendary bladed irons with an additional enhanced feel of quality. The innovative 3D muscle pad has been designed to offset the often unwanted vibrations associated with a bladed club to create a new brand of iron specifically designed for the highly accomplished player.

Mizuno broke waves with their MP-33 design at the turn of the millennium but the new improved MP-68 has taken the PGA Tour by storm with the majority of the world's top players praising its much improved design and ease of use. A shorter hosel and muscle back design significantly improve the centre of gravity, combining with the muscle pad technology and precise weighting system to offer a penetrating ball flight that can be shaped in either direction for effortless total shot control. A new look sole shape has been implemented for crisper ball-striking, along with Mizuno's unique Grain Flow Forging construction to create a club that maintains its standards amongst the elite, whilst being more forgiving and easier to use for the low handicapped player.

The MP-68 is easy on the eye too, with subtle changes to the head design and a more compact PW offering the complete all round package for the talented golfer looking to take their game to the next level.

The big news in golf this week is that rapidly declining golfing legend Tiger Woods ended up finishing tied 78th in the 80-man WGC Bridgestone Invitational. This means that only one player finished with a worse score than Woods, and the winner finished an astonishing 30 shots ahead of the greatest champion of all time. The question is, then: how is it that a player performing so badly can still technically be ranked as the greatest player in the world?

This may certainly seem mysterious to newcomers and golfing laymen, but the answer is really quite simple. The world rankings are calculated using a points system: different tournaments and courses are designated varying amounts of points depending on their profile and difficulty. Players are then awarded points dependent on their finishing position.

At first, this may seem flawed: players will surely accumulate points over their careers, and the greatest contemporary player will be overshadowed by a retired legend! The answer is that each individual player's ranking is calculated from only the last two years of playing. Again, this may seem unfair on a player who has only recently gained form (or, as in Tiger's case, lost form). Of course, the system cannot compensate for this entirely, but some compensation is done through scaling down the points awarded over time: each tournament's value remains for 13 weeks only, and is then reduced in weekly increments until the end of the 2 year period. This way recent form is given priority whilst allowing for anomalous performances.

"Silly", "pointless", and "decadent" are just three of the polite words that come to mind on hearing the news that the brand new golf club in Oxfordshire (imaginatively named 'The Oxfordshire Golf Club') was opened this week by a ribbon-cutting robot.

The stunt was organised so that the Brazilian Director of High Performance Sports, Marco Klein, could officially open the new golf club without having to move from his office at the Brazilian Sports Ministry in Brasilia, over 6,000 miles away. The logic was that Mr Klein was essential in securing Brazil's bid for the 2016 Olympics, in which golf will be included for the first time since people first realised that it was a silly idea.

Asides from being rather odd reasoning for why the Brazilian should have anything to do with the opening of a golf club in Oxfordshire, the basic point remains that Mr Klein actually did not open the new golf club: a robot did. Certainly he sent the digital command that activated the process, but the same would have been the case if he had simply sent a text message to an underling who then did it for him. And that probably would have been considerably cheaper.

The General Manager of the club, Tim Pettifer, explained that they wanted to do something "unusual, entertaining, and which celebrated the global nature of golf". It is a testimony to the imagination and excitement of the golfing lifestyle that a robot with a pair of scissors fulfilled these criteria.