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Operation: Dancin’ Dogg Taggs Launched!

November 25, 2006 on 5:58 pm | In Support Our Troops |

This holiday season U.S. Military personnel who can’t be home for the holidays will be able to work on their slice, draw, course management and ball striking skills. From Kabul they’ll be playing Bethpage Black. In Baghdad they’ll be playing Sawgrass and in Afghanistan, Pebble Beach. Also, golfers back home will be able to play with them and help support families of those who’ve fallen in service to their country.

Dancin’ Dogg Golf out of Traverse City, Michigan has donated and shipped Dancin’ Dogg Shot Making Simulators to U.S. Military Bases around the world as a part of OPERATION: DANCIN’ DOGG TAGGS.

Every Dancin’ Dogg Golf Shot Making Simulator sold between now and December 21, 2006 will include a Dancin’ Dogg Tagg. Virtual Dancin’ Dogg Taggs are also available at http://www.dancindogg.com/taggs with no purchase required. Each ‘tagg’ has a number that provides users with access to the Dancin’ Dogg Taggs Online Communications Center where they can communicate with U.S. Service personnel serving overseas. Additionally, Dancin’ Dogg Tagg numbers can be used to get a $50 rebate from the purchase of a Shot Making Simulator. For every rebate redeemed, Dancin’ Dogg will donate $25 to America Supports You team member, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides college educations to the children of special operations personnel killed in combat or during a training mission. Visitors to the website can also make direct contributions to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation on that page, without having to purchase the product.

Dancin’ Dogg President Russell Edens said, “Men and women serving overseas have precious little time for recreation. A deck of cards, dart board and if they’re lucky, video games. Now those serving who also love golf have something they’ll really enjoy during those moments when they can relax.”

The Dancin’ Dogg Simulator is the world’s first golf simulator created to focus on the art of shot making. Users ’set up’ any kind of shot they want on a PC screen. Then, they select a real iron and hit an indoor-safe ball off of a durable high-tech mat. The shape and flight path of the shot appears on the screen along with information on the distance the ball traveled and how close it came to the intended target. The system also provides a pinpoint accurate report on swing speed, club face angle at impact and more. Using this analysis, golfers make adjustments and keep working on the shot until they’ve nailed it.

Dancin’ Dogg Shot Making Simulator now supports EA Sports(TM) Tiger Woods PGA Tour© ‘07 and ships with ‘06, along with a one year membership to GolfSpan.com, the Internet’s leading golf instructional website. “The inclusion of the Tiger Woods game makes it possible for stateside golfers to play golf in real-time, online, on many of the world’s finest courses with fellow golfers serving overseas,” explains Edens. “The GolfSpan affiliation gives our customers access to video lessons from the finest teaching pros in the world.”

PGA Professional Gary Parker of City Golf Boston, Boston’s Premier Indoor Golf Practice and Training Center, is a believer in the Dancin’ Dogg Shot Making Simulator. “We’ve used a Dancin’ Dogg unit in here that’s been beat on for weeks, almost 60 hours a week and the product holds up and helps my clients become better shot makers. What Dancin’ Dogg is doing for military overseas is admirable — the simulators will definitely hold up to their usage.”

“Ours is the first simulator to combine the pro-level pinpoint accurate technology and durability of simulators costing tens of thousands of dollars, lessons from some of the world’s finest instructors, and the most exciting virtual golf game into one affordable package,” Edens concludes.

For information please visit www.dancindogg.com