It’s coming. It had to. It was inevitable. What, you ask? The next why-didn’t-I-think-of-that invention, that’s what: a radar tracking system so you’ll never – ok, rarely – lose your golf ball.
Thanks to a microchip positioned in the core of the ball and a handheld device, Radar Golf, a start-up company based in Roseville, California, stands a legitimate chance of changing the game as we know it. Time will tell.
Oh sure, it probably won’t change the way the pros play. Lining every fairway are hundreds of too-eager fans just dying to roll boulders out of the way, pounce on runaway balls, and trample the rough to find their hero’s ball. Thanks to the help, rarely does a tour player ever lose a ball.
But for you and I, smacking it around with our buddies on Saturday morning, spraying them into the woods on every other tee - we have a legitimate need for something like this.
The company is a few months away from launching the product. Information on the system is readily available on their website, www.radargolf.com. The system will retail for $249.00, including a dozen radar-ready balls. Radar Golf balls, which are constructed to USGA standards, will retail for $39.95 per dozen. (Because, well, there might be the odd ball that slices into an alligator-infested pond.)
Andrew Penner writes for a number of publications in Canada and the United States. He can be reached at andpenner@shaw.ca.
