Jim Hackenberg, CEO at Jimmy Hack Golf LLC & Orange Whip Golf, receives the Horton Smith Award for his outstanding contributions to developing and improving educational opportunities for the PGA Golf Professional at his facility and beyond. Jim has designed several training aids including the Orange Whip Trainer...
For the second consecutive year the Orange Whip Wedge has been awarded Golf Digest Editors' Choice for Best Training Aids. For as long as people have been playing golf, they've been coming up with devices to make the learning process easier. Good training aids help a player immediately see and feel a good motion, and they offer feedback when you're executing the moves correctly.
Successful golf instructors use many different methods to help their students improve the way they play the game. A key part of that process for many instructors is the tools of the trade – the teaching and training aids they use on the lesson tee, and that they often recommend to their students for use during practice sessions. Voted on by over 250 top instructors.
Golf isn’t lacking for things you can spend money on. Spending well is another story, especially if the objective is to actually play better. Hence the challenge we put before Golf Digest editors: identify the best way golfers could invest in their game this season...
Brice Garnett becomes the 8th Orange Whipper to win a Tour event while carrying the Orange Whip "In The Bag". He captured his first career PGA Tour title at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship.