It’s been a while since we’ve stumbled across an alarm clock that uses some annoying gimmick to ensure you get out of bed in the morning. But this $17 mini golf game trapped inside a plastic dome might actually be a less rage-inducing way to start your day. More »
If there’s one sport that’s managed to spawn an entire industry of bizarre gadgets promising to improve a player’s game, it’s golf. But Garmin’s new Approach S2 watch manages to shine in a sea of mediocrity, providing a genuinely useful tool to golfers with a library of over 30,000 course layouts from around the world, available without the need for a mobile data connection. More »
If you need any more proof that we’re giving Nobel Prizes to the wrong people, behold the brilliant creation that is Putter Pool. It takes billiards and golf—arguably two of the laziest ‘sports’ known to man—and merges them into an indoor game that barely requires you to get up off the couch. Genius! More »
Hand rookie golfers a driver and they’ll frequently make the classic mistake of gripping the club as though their lives depend on it. A seasoned veteran knows that a little give and take might be needed, which is why Sensosolutions just updated its long-serving SensoGlove to better encourage a balanced hold. The new automatic sensitivity toggle will offer a recommended grip through the LCD based on how tightly the club has been held in the past; throttle the 9 iron often and you’ll be asked to loosen up. Longer battery life is also in the cards versus the older model, although we’re reaching out to determine how many more holes the glove will handle in one charge. No matter how you slice (or hook) it, the newer SensoGlove is shipping for $89 in versions for both hands and multiple sizes.
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SensoGlove revamp brings automatic pressure check, stops us from strangling our golf swing originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Well, here’s an odd little story that happened over in jolly old England recently. A woman living in Paignton, Devon started hearing strange clanking noises on the roof of her house, and decided to go outside and have a look. After investigating, she found a couple of orange practice golf balls sitting on her yard. She figured it was from some neighborhood kids playing around, and moved on with her life. But then the balls kept raining down.
Turns out that after much puzzlement, the brightly-colored plastic golf balls were coming not from kids, but from gulls flying overhead and dropping them on her roof. Apparently, the seagulls think that the balls are mussels, and that dropping them will crack them open so they can get at the tasty morsel inside. I’m sure the gulls are very disappointed when they find out there’s a whole lot of nothing inside of them. Now why they decided to repeatedly use this woman’s house for target practice is anyone’s guess – maybe she ran over a seagull in a past life. So far, more than fifty of the balls have found their way onto the woman’s home.
What’s even more confounding is that nobody seems to know where the balls are coming from – after checking with many local golf courses, none of them use such balls for practice. Perhaps she can start her own driving range now.
[via Daily Mail]
Nike has always been like Chubbs was to Happy Gilmore, helping you improve your golf game. But now it wants to do it digitally—it just earned a patent to put data-collecting sensors in clubs that would track your swing. More »
The app devs over at Sky Sports are having a busy year, and after improving their iPad offering for the F1 season, they’re back with a “second screen” update for football (soccer) fans. Just in time for the start of the UK Premier League season, the new Football Match Centre adds a content bar alongside your chosen stream showing team and player info, in-depth stats of the match in progress and a hand-picked Twitter feed for related musings. You might think the devs deserve a break, but sadly there’s no time — next on the agenda is a similar update for the Champions League tournament, then they’re bringing the second screen to golf fans before the Ryder Cup starts next month.
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Do you love playing golf? If you have answered in the affirmative, then here is the $99.95 PDGA Approved Disc Golf which might make you consider switching your favorite sport for something else, which will still involve getting a projectile sent into a hole, of course. We are talking about the PDGA Approved Disc Golf that was specially designed to meet the exacting standards determined by the Professional Disc Golf Association. This particular set will come with a couple of discs which will fade left or right for medium to long drives around obstacles, in addition to a quartet of discs that were specially designed to hold a straight line, and dropping to the target.
It will also be accompanied by a 52.5″ high target which has a seven-bar deflector, 14 deflecting chains, and a 24″-diameter scoring basket in order to comply with PDGA regulations. These discs themselves come with a contoured edge, uniform wall thickness, and concentric ring configuration so that one is able to enjoy the ideal grip and release the perfect flight. The target can easily be set up on its included base, and can be disassembled in a jiffy whenever you need to travel.
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Golfing widows, I know how much you love the man whom you married, and yet loathe this hobby of his called ‘golf’, so why not try something different in your approach this time around. How about being nice to your man instead, by forking out a handsome amount for the Handcrafted Adjustable Putting Green? I am singing to the tune of $699.95 here, but before you gasp and start to wonder what other stuff you can purchase with such money, how about describing to you just what the Handcrafted Adjustable Putting Green comes with?
As the name suggests, this handcrafted indoor putting green will enable golfers to adjust the break so that they can improve their short game without missing a beat. Proudly made in the U.S., expert craftsmen were enlisted to craft this out from furniture-quality solid hardwood. Its base is able to be angled with a twist of a knob so that golfers can practice left- or right-handed breaks, right in the comfort of their own home or office. Some assembly is required, no doubt about it, and too bad you cannot enlist the help of someone from Ikea to help you get the job done.
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If you have always wanted to find a cheap and far more affordable way to lower your golf score, then Rokform might have just the thing for you with their Golf Shooter iPhone case. This particular golf-specific iPhone 4/4S case is the first of its kind in the world, where it will be able to help record your golf swings regardless of whether you are on or off the course. This particularly unique case is made possible thanks to a collaborative effort with PGA Tour professional players and instructors, resulting in what Rokform claims to be “the best product in the world of golf swing video analyses.” (more…)
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