My friends over at the Nick Hotchkiss Collection are offering a fabulous deal on their neckties for Golf Blogger readers. Owner Stuart Hotchkiss writes:

It would be my pleasure to extend to your readers a special holiday price of $45.00.  To receive the discount, simply enter the coupon code GolfBlogger at checkout and it will be automatically applied to any of our ties.

This offer is good through Dec. 30, 2006.

That’s $20 off the regular price of the ties. And they are great looking, high quality, and come in a lot of fun designs. I recommend them.

The Idaho Statesman has a consumer warning on a company that is offering a 90 Day Free Golf Club Test program.

With the program, consumers are given the chance to try out golf clubs for 90 days. To get the clubs, though, you have to provide a credit card number, and your card is charged at the time of the agreement. The theory is that if you like the clubs, you keep them for the retail price; if don’t like the clubs after 90 days, you can return them.
However, golfers who have tried to return the clubs before 90 days have been refused; the company insists that you use the full 90.

Why? It turns out that most credit card companies have a 60 day window for credit disputes. So if you wait more than 90 days after the initial charge, you are stuck with the clubs and the bill.

The clubs, no doubt, are horribly overpriced.

Buy $399.99 in TaylorMade Metal Woods and get your choice of any R7 Stainless Fairway Wood or a Rescue Dual as a bonus. The sale ends 7/23/06. Essentially, what they’re saying is that if you buy a driver, you get a fairway wood free.  You can order then at Golfsmith.com

TGW is having a closeout on Callaway Steel X-16 Irons. Regularly priced at $880, you can now get them at $449.

The Golf Warehouse has a deal where you can buy two dozen Precept Precept balls and get a free XM Satellite Radio

XM, of course, is the satellite radio network that has the PGA Tour network. And Major League Baseball.