SensoSolutions SensoGlove

We thought we’d covered just about every type of deranged golf gadget conceivable right through to the automatic ball placer that puts your golf balls on your tee for you to save all the strenuous bending over and the like. The SensoSolutions SensoGlove offers to measure and analyse the grip you have on your club (sadly not on reality) and just how well you’re doing.

The SensoGlove creators appreciate that grip is everything when it comes to hitting the perfect shot. Poor grip means poor connection and can impact your swing, but the SensoGlove will analyse your current grip and give you feedback on how close you are to achieving optimum grip conditions.

The glove features sound effects and a graphical LCD display to let you know just how badly you’re doing but I suspect the chances of altering your grip mid swing because of the quick beep isn’t really that achievable.

The SensoGlove can be purchased online and will cost you just under £50. It’s sweat proof and weather proof design ensures that it will stand the many tests it will have to face in order to be considered golf course friendly and ensures you don’t fry your hand while playing in the rain, which is a bonus with any gadget.

The Digital Golf Score Keeper

Sometimes that small scrap of paper and chewed pencile can just be too cumbersome when you need to keep score in golf. So, instead, swap them with a stylus and a digital score keeper that also tells you the time and the ambient temperature in a nifty pocket sized gadget that proves you can turn anything into gadgetry.

At less than £15, the digital score keeper is actually quite a bargain and the perfect gift for golfers that take their Sunday afternoon stroll just a little too seriously. Not only does it keep score for four players over 18 holes but it records everything on one screen so you don’t need to spend five minutes every hole before teeing off while you navigate your way around an obstinately challenging menu system.

What’s even better than that, and better even than the golf ball shaped buttons, is the fact that it stores the scores for use later. Once bragging rights have been won and confirmed by everybody you know then you can clear this week’s score and go again in seven day’s time. Don’t worry, if you lose, you can conveniently delete the scores too.

Digital Golf Range Finder

To most of us, a caddy is little more than bag that holds your clubs, because we don’t enjoy the luxury of a professional caddy – somebody to pass you the right club, inform you of the hazards, give you the distance, and advise on your next shot. For us, we have to calculate distances from ball to hole using the traditional measure; “it’s quite far” or “that’s miles away”.

The Digital Golf Range Finder, which costs less than £20, calculates the distance from where you stand to the pin by using trigonometric calculations, or something. Anyway, because it knows the height of the flag, the Range Finder can then calculate your distance from the flag according to how small it appears in the range finder.

With a range of about 460 foot it should be useful at the local pitch and putt, at the very least. We suppose, although, haven’t tested it (yet) that it could be used for calculating artillery fire and the like during a water fight. Regardless of secondary uses, though, you’ll never have to guess how far away the hole lies and you won’t have any excuses for landing short or over hitting it.

Electronic Help Finding The Sweet Spot

The fabled sweet spot is something that we men (and a select few women) have been trying to find for countless generations, and on the rare occasion we do the result is a thing of true and exquisite beauty. Finding the sweet spot means you’ll drive harder and further and you’ll find the hole more often.

The (ahem) Golf Sweet Spot Finder locates the optimal spin axis of a ball enabling you to felt tip pen a line onto the ball so that you know where to hit next shot. The ball is rotated in a mechanized chamber and a small hole enables you to insert your felt tip nib and draw the line.

We’re not entirely sure of course restriction on the use of this kind of thing, and you may look a bit daft lining up your Sweet Spot Finder before every tee shot but perhaps you could carry a stock of readied balls with felt lines already drawn.

The Golf Sweet Spot Finder runs on battery power, though, so you could always nip behind the bushes to gain that extra edge. Imagine the look of envy when you’re hitting straight and hard, and putting more accurately.

Oh, and it includes a pen!

Take The Physical Exercise Out Of Golf Practise

You try telling a golfer that their preferred Sunday afternoon pastime isn’t a sport and requires no effort, and most will try and tell you it’s more than just a walk through the woods. After all, you have to bend over every now and again to put the ball on the tee and there’s the seemingly endless walk between shots. We haven’t even mentioned the strenuous lifting of golf clubs.

Well, fortunately, there’s a gadget that makes picking up and re-teeing the ball after practising your swing that little bit easier. The Hammacher Scheimer Automatic Golf Tee automatically puts a ball on the tee, without fail, so you can keep your stance and perfect your swing without all of that back breaking effort, leaning over.

What makes it an even better item for the golf lover is that it doesn’t need plugging into the mains, and indeed doesn’t require a power source of any type. Lower the lever with your club and the Automatic Golf Tee neatly and even proudly places the next ball onto the tee. It holds up to 35 balls and can be purchased for about £30 online so is much cheaper than a virtual swing machine.

<