West Chester, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/06/2015 -- J.R. Mats Inc. announced that the company's revolutionary new Tuff-Shot Trainer™ uneven lie practice station was featured on two popular Golf Channel programs recently. In an appearance on the Golf Channel's Morning Drive program, professional golfer and former Ryder Cup team member John Cook used the Tuff-Shot Trainer to show viewers how to attack the uneven lies typical of Augusta National's 13th and other holes.

Later, on the Golf Channel's Golf Fix, world-renowned golf teacher Michael Breed used the J.R. Mats Tuff-Shot Trainer to give viewers helpful advice about hitting the ball from the kinds of downhill-sloping lies that are also common at Augusta. These two prominent appearances provide a great look at how the innovative Tuff-Shot Trainer can make it far easier and more productive than ever before to practice some of the game's most difficult shots.

"For many years, golfers have struggled with how best to practice from the uneven lies that are so challenging and important when it comes to scoring," J.R. Mats founder Jay R. McGrath noted, "With our new Tuff-Shot Trainer uneven-lie training platform, those troubles come to an end. Easily adjustable and spacious enough to swing any club on, the Tuff-Shot Trainer makes practicing uneven lies a breeze, as John Cook and Michael Breed showed recently on the Golf Channel."

Although the manicured tee areas that golfers hit their drives from are typically kept as flat and even as possible, much of the rest of the game is played on less regular and reliable surfaces. Golfers who find themselves in the rough, in particular, often deal with sloping surfaces in addition to the longer grass they find there. Compared to the flat, even expanses that most practice traditionally takes place on, these situations can be extremely challenging.

Even golf fairways can sometimes be demanding in this way. Regarded by many as one of the most distinctive courses of all, Georgia's Augusta National plays host to one of golf's most prestigious tournaments in the form of the annual Masters, the 79th iteration of which concluded on April 12th. Lacking somewhat in terms of length and punishing hazards compared to some other well-known courses, Augusta National frequently offers up challenges of a subtler sort.

Some of the best-known of these are the downhill and side-hill lies that are so common even on the fairways of holes like the second, 9th, 13th, and 15th. Whether for professional golfers or amateurs looking to improve, practicing the shots needed in such situations has formerly been difficult to arrange for.

With the introduction of J.R. Mats' Tuff Shot Trainer - New Adjustable Uneven Lie Golf Training Aid , that has changed overnight. Topped with a yielding, natural-feeling surface that closely mimics real golf conditions, the five-foot square platform can be adjusted to recreate virtually any kind of uneven lie that golfers might wish to practice. As Golf Channel experts John Cook and Michael Breed showed clearly on television, the Tuff-Shot Trainer makes it extremely easy to work on these most difficult of shots, even allowing for the easy recreation of situations encountered at world-class courses like Augusta National.

That product joins what is now a long line of similarly impressive and innovative J.R. Mats stable-mates. First introduced in 2005 in the form of the Country Club Elite model, the company's Real Feel Golf Mats have revolutionized golf practice for many, offering up a far more realistic experience and now being featured at many of the world's top golf schools. Just as with the company's Golf Practice Mats, then, the impressive new Tuff-Shot Trainer is already proving to be an extremely valuable practice aid, whether on the Golf Channel or anywhere else golfers look to improve.

About J.R. Mats Inc.
With everything from the uniquely natural-feeling Country Club Elite golf mats to the revolutionary new Tuff-Shot Trainer uneven-lie platform, J.R. Mats provides creative, innovative answers to the practice needs of dedicated golfers.