Every committed golfer would love a practice net, just something to have a little knock about in now and then. Trouble is the wife won't let you because they look awful and clutter up the garden. But not Rotanet, oh no. It's smart, retractable and after you've retracted it, you won't even know you've got one.

he golf industry is continually bombarded with new gadgets and training devices all claiming to knock shots off your handicap and produce that perfect swing.

However many of these are worthless gimmicks which very soon become consigned to the deepest darkest cupboard you can find.

Rotanet on the other hand, a sturdy and retractable practice net, is so well designed it would win 'Best Practice Aid' at the annual Today's Golfer Award by three landslides, ten lengths and a couple of country miles (assuming there was a "Best Practice Aid" category which there isn't).

Having spent an afternoon at Rotanet testing out the net, its key features immediately become apparent. Designed as a top of the range space saving facility, when retracted and fitted with it's weatherproof cover it occupies no more space than a conventional rotary clothes drier. No longer do you have to put up with those ugly fixed permanent fixtures which takes

up space in the garden and after a very short time become to look an eyesore.

With the cover removed it can easily be unwound to it's full operating position, ready for immediate use, and when practice is finished the integral spring mechanism effortlessly retracts the net back around the main pole. The complete unit can then remain in situ or be lifted from it's ground socket and stored in the garage " to ensure the neighbours buy their own."

It will cost you around £400, delivered, for the Rotanet, complete with it's weatherproof

cover, ground sockets and template and should take any reasonably intelligent person no more than a couple of minutes to erect. It took us three and a half.

Since it's launch in February it has already sold to the U.S.A., Canada, Singapore, Indonesia, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Holland and Germany as well as all over the U.K.

It's a very high quality product that's perfect for keeping your fundamentals in check or warming up before a medal, so if you only buy one practice aid this year, make it a Rotanet.