Shadow Caddy - Robotic Golfing Assistant

An Australian company has created a robotic caddy that allows you to be free of carrying, pushing, or pulling your golf clubs around the golf course. For those golfers who still enjoy walking the course the Shadow Caddy may just be what they are looking for. The Shadow Caddy is a "hands free", three wheel electronic caddy that precisely follows you, and the clip on transmitter, around the golf course. The companies website indicates that it is currently only available in Australia and is for hire at a number of golf courses in that country. There is no mention of a purchase price and the "for hire" statement leads me to believe that it is purely a rental item at the moment. Check it out at www.shadowcaddy.com.au

Another golf gadget...

I don't golf as much as I did when I was younger, or as much as I might like to. I've never been a great golfer, though back in high school I had a respectable 15 handicap. If you are into gadgets and golf, there is no end to the number of tools and devices claiming to help you cut strokes from your game. I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to most of these gadgets as I believe, when it comes to golf, you either have it or you don't. Yes, practice helps but there is something that the elite athlete has that the rest of us will never possess.

Here though is a neat little gadget that just might work, my father swears by it, and I think it can be reasonably explained through physics. According to the manufacturer of this device, no golf ball is perfectly aligned when it leaves the factory. The Check-Go Sweet Spot Finder spins a golf ball to an impressive 10,000 rpm automatically realigning the ball's heaviest areas along it's equator. Once this is accomplished the machine's LED indicates that the ball is spinning in balance and the user then inserts the included marker into the machine to draw a line along the ball's sweet spot. Aligning the marked line with your golf club or putter will ensure that the ball tumbles as truly as possible in flight or on the green, and just might give you that little extra advantage during your next match play. Did I mention that my father is an engineer, an avid golfer, and a Check-Go believer...