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For The Golf Lovers Heaven Golf Launches Innovative Golf Footwear System Designed for Maximum Comfort and Balance at Address. Austrian-based Heaven Golf, Inc., is introducing a new golf footwear system in the United States designed to help improve balance and promote a more relaxed, dynamic walking motion while traversing the course. The shoes will debut to U.S. golf retailers at the 2014 PGA Merchandise Show and are available online at : http://www.heaveningolf.com/ en/ Led by former Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) co-owner Hermann Oberschneider, Heaven Golf has developed its award-winning footwear concept through years of technical innovation and extensive feedback from the golf and health communities. “The Heaven Golf shoe achieves those things while also helping to give you a better understanding of your balance position before your swing or while walking the course.” The innovation in the Heaven Golf shoe is the Dynamic Balance Technology, a rounded outsole with an open chassis in place of the padded foam midsole found in conventional golf footwear. The unique outsole can help provide the golfer with a better awareness of balance and also promote a more fluid, natural walking motion that contributes to better overall health. “Golfers spend a lot of money on being fitted for clubs, swing lessons and other instruction to improve their scores, but they forget about starting their swing from the proper position,” Oberschneider said. “The Heaven Golf system is designed to help create balance awareness before you pull the club away from the Introduced in Europe earlier ball, and it also makes walking this year, the patented footwear the course a more relaxed, dysystem has already garnered recnamic and enjoyable activity.” ognition for its innovation. The design won the Red Dot Award For ultimate comfort, the Heavfrom the Design Zentrum Noren Golf shoe features an EVA drhein Westfalen, one of the oldinsole and a TPU outsole that est and most highly respected delivers the stability and shock design institutions in Europe, absorption needed for walking and the ‘New Golf Award’ from 18 holes through varied terrain. Golf and Wellness, a German trade fair focused on products The shoes are solid white with that improve enjoyment of the black accents and are available game. for men and women through the company website with a sug“All of the focus in the golf footgested retail of $299. For more wear market has been on cominformation, visit http://www. fortable, stylish or waterproof heaveningolf.com/en/. shoes,” Oberschneider said.