If you have spent the last few days glued to the television set watching the golf drama unfold at Augusta, and the final Maters play off which saw Angel Cabrera finally claim victory and his second major golf championship, then no doubt you are keen to get on the greens and start practicing for your green jacket. To help you along the way to golfing victory, one of the must-have gadgets on the golf course now must be a CaddyAid GPS golf system. The CaddyAid GPS golf system is a useful tool to allow for calculating distances to practically...
You Are Browsing ‘Sports’ Category
The Ryder Cup has been responsible for a new wave of golfing enthusiasts with attendance figures, as ever, showing a marked spike after the historic Ryder Cup of 2008. However, how do the golfers of today find their range? How are they able to calculate the yardage to the flag? While the use of caddies and pinpoint yardage cards is common place on the professional circuit it is not as easy for the amateurs, until now! The Bushnell Golf Tour V2 Laser Rangefinder is set to give each and every golfer in the land the chance to at least find...
If we’re going to be frank about this, there are some crap golf training aids available that have no genuine reason for being useful. We’re not really sure whether the Sensoglove falls into that category or not but we know it looks pretty futuristic… sort of. In fact, it looks like something that would have been considered futuristic in the 1980s. Regardless of its efficacy and value, the Sensoglove aims to improve your swing, as does any discerning training aid (it’s that or putting at any rate). It does this by...
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,...
You know that if you need one of these when you’re playing pool at your local that you should just give up the game altogether because you clearly can’t cut it. The laser guided pool cue is for those that take things way too seriously and has a touch sensor that enables you to quickly turn the tiny laser out and its range will easily cross the length of a full size snooker table. You really can’t blame the spin on the white when you use the laser guided pool cue because you will hit the sweet spot every time. It’s...
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...
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...
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...
Combining desktop radio controlled devices with football seems like a no brainer to me and yet its not something you see everyday. Miniature football boots zip around the pitch (or your desk, depending on the extent of your imagination) and the set includes two sets of goals, two boots, two controllers shaped like stadium, and a couple of clips to make sure you can dribble like Ronaldo (it’s like the ball’s glued to his feet). Each controller requires a 9v battery and the little boots need 2 AAA batteries. The only other thing...
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....