Still using pencil and paper to keep track of your golf score? You could leap into the modern gadget-loving age with a digital scorecard.
This inexpensive ($20) gizmo keeps track of your strokes, calculates scores, and will also save your best round. It runs on a cell battery (included), and a strap lets you clip it to your golf bag or belt.
Ranked lightweight and easy-to-use by reviewers, the digital golf scorecard means no more worrying about losing your pencil.
From Brookstone.
Not enough geekiness ensuing on the golf course? Perhaps you could start a trend by warming up your putter with a Star Wars golf club cover.
Darth Vader, Yoda, Chewbacca… all our favorites from the original series are available (sorry prequel fans, but a Jar Jar Binks cover would get you beaten up in the clubhouse).
I’m not sure if having Vader riding around in your golf cart will improve your game, but these club covers ought to start conversations at least (and who knows… maybe the force will be with you!). You can pick them up for $20-$30 at Entertainment Earth.
If you find the idea of trolling around the golf course in a motorized cart a little bland for your manly image, perhaps you’ll find this modified Harley Davidson golf cart to your liking. It’s hard not to feel like a stud when driving something painted with flames.
The custom cart is the work of the aptly named Modified Golf Carts company. They can turn your ho hum ride into a piece of art that reflects your personality.
Perhaps you fancy some flames, or racing stripes, or a logo of your favorite sports team. You can have it done. And the modifications aren’t limited to paint jobs. The outfit can do lift suspension assembles, seat upgrades, cargo dump beds, tire and wheel cover upgrades, custom enclosures, and they can even power your ride up with high torque/high speed motors (just don’t blame us if you run over some innocent granny on the Back 9….).
Check out their site for cool pictures and golf cart customization ideas.
If you’re a fitness buff, you’ve doubtlessly heard about interval training. And if you haven’t, here’s the short wikipedia definition:
“Interval training is a type of physical training that involves bursts of high intensity work. This high intensity work is alternated with periods of rest or low activity (the intervals in interval training).” It can be helpful for improving cardiovascular fitness, and studies have suggested interval training can be better for weight loss than steady-pace jogging, biking, etc.
While you can simply use a watch or the timer on the treadmill to figure out your intervals, the gadget lover in you may prefer the GymBoss Interval Trainer.
“This quality interval timer will make any workout easier to plan and execute with more accuracy and consistency.” The pager-sized fitness gadget features include:
- one or two different time intervals from 2 seconds to 99 minutes
- an auto mode that keeps repeating through intervals
- the ability to set up to 99 rounds
- a manual “countdown timer” mode
- a stopwatch function
- an alarm to alert you when it’s time to switch from high to low or vice versa
Pick one up for $20:
If the golf course is a bit soggy (or under snow) this time of year, that doesn’t mean you can’t find a place to practice. How about working on your putts?
Sure, you could just putt at a hole (or the cat, dog, etc.), but if you want to get some computer-enhanced putting advice, you may want to check out this gadget:
The Electronic Putting Trainer.
Its “infrared sensors detect both the speed and direction of each putt, providing precise, instant feedback by showing exactly where the midpoint of the ball has struck the bar in relation to its ‘virtual hole.’”
The bar automatically bounces the ball back to you, so you don’t even have to fish it out of a hole. You can even play a game to make things interesting:
“The trainer challenges you with six games; you can play a game of ‘500′ which requires you to place a series of five puts as close as possible to the hole.”
A mere $330 from Hammacher Schlemmer:
If golf is part of your exercise routine, you probably don’t want to make use of the golf carts. A stroll along the greens is good for you, but toting your clubs over your shoulder may be more of a workout than you’re looking for! After all, it’s hard to line up those putts with sweat dripping in your eyes…
Here’s a solution that lets you walk but takes the burden off your back: the Bag Boy Automatic Push Cart.
“The Automatic is the only push cart with one-step fold in golf. It is equipped with Bag Boy’s new G-Force Performance 3-wheel design, fully adjustable bag brackets to accommodate various bag types (including junior bags), an adjustment mechanism for perfect front wheel alignment, a detachable swivel beverage holster, a telescoping handle and a handle-mounted parking brake.”
Hey, what kind of gadget would it be if nothing “telescoped”?
You’ve doubtlessly seen a Segway from time to time, on TV if nothing else, but you may never have seen one on the golf course. Well, apparently golf carts are so last century, and there’s a special Segway now for golfers.
The Segway X2 Golf:
“Like its siblings, it’s a personal mobility machine, but it sits on big, soft turf tires and offers a golf-bag carrier on one side and a handlebar-mounted scorecard holder…Like its siblings, it’s a personal mobility machine, but it sits on big, soft turf tires and offers a golf-bag carrier on one side and a handlebar-mounted scorecard holder.”
I don’t even play golf, but I’d get a kick out of trying this puppy out.
Price: $6,175 (hey, what’s a few grand to an avid golfer?)
via CNN