Good news for golf widows.
A new twist on the use of pulse technology will bring your significant other home sooner by knocking off about 32 minutes from their game.
Golf Domain.com, an offshoot of
Time Domain, will be providing low-cost electronic caddies on the nation’s golf courses. Golfers can hook these tiny electronic caddies onto their belt buckle enabling them to do such things as measure the distance between a ball and a hole, help pick out what type of club to use, and help scope out hazard areas along the course for better shots. The site’s services will go live on July 1.
Though Global Position System (GPS) technology could be used in a similar way, it doesn’t have the advantages that pulse technology has.
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Golf Domain’s device will track not only the location of your golf balls, but also how well you (and your competition) are doing. |
"GPS is not accurate enough to measure the distances," said Golf Domain.com CEO Dale Crook. Pulse technology is accurate to the inch compared with GPS’ accuracy of several feet. That can really mess up a golf shot. It also is not as dependable because it cannot penetrate through such commonplace objects as trees on the golf course.
A commercial product will be in ready by the end of 2001, Dale Crook said.
And professional golfers will benefit as well now that the PGA Tour has showed interest in the product. "It looks very promising," Crook said.
And if you tend to exaggerate your handicap when keeping score, Golf Domain.com will keep you honest. Back at the clubhouse, a data collection system will be keeping score on an electric scorecard.
Eventually, this data will be posted on the company’s website (
www.golf-domain.com), which will be up in about 90 days. Players will be able to see 3-D images of their ball’s path on any given hole and eventually be able to see 3-D images of their swing.
"It will allow you to compare your game to other golfers," Crook said. "Golfers will go into work the next day and will be able to replay their entire round to show off to their buddies."
Golf Domain.com will not charge for the installation of the technology, but will share in the revenue for each round, Crook says. So golfers may pay a just a few extra dollars to use the technology while playing, he said.
Crook boasts that the interest in this super-caddie has been enormous. The company just added on to their advisory staff the vice president of the largest golf consolidators in the world.
Could it be that Tiger Woods may get another new caddie?
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