Golf

  • With its vast open spaces a golf course might just be the ideal location to put drone technology to the test. Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten is kicking off its drone delivery service next month, where it will drop off balls and snacks to golfers throughout their rounds.​​
  • In a bid to better guide players of all abilities as they navigate the course, Garmin has extended its already considerable range of golfing gadgets to include a new shot-tracking watch, a swing monitoring sensor and a GPS device small enough to clip discreetly onto your belt. ​​
  • While many people prefer to ride in a motorized cart when they're golfing, not all golf courses have such vehicles. Well, that's where the GoCaddy comes in. The portable vehicle incorporates an existing GoPed folding electric scooter.​
  • Like a Roomba for the range, the Ball Picker is an autonomous robot that scoots around sucking up golf balls and returning them to a ball dispenser to be teed up again.
  • If most of your car trips are made up of short jaunts within your neighborhood, you may be able to get away with a slow-but-cheap electric runabout. Eco-Cruise recently launched just such a vehicle, in the form of its Cruser Sport.
  • Microsoft announced its partnership with TaylorMade earlier this year, and instantly brought a number of useful golfing features to its Band wearable. Things are about to get even better, with the fitness wearable now working with TaylorMade's myRoundPro service, providing in-depth post-round stats.
  • Unless you carry your clubs around yourself, a round of golf is often bookended with a clumsy assemblage and dismantling of a buggy. But for GolferPal, this isn't the most ideal way to warm up or warm down – so the company has created a motorized golf buggy that does the work for you.
  • The “Giants of Bigwin” project features a collection of private retreats dedicated to guests of the esteemed Bigwin Golf Club. Measuring between 1,200 and 1,500 square feet (111 and 140 sqm), the huts are designed to eventually blend into their leafy surrounds.
  • Though technology is now finding its way into sports of all kinds, none have proved the hotbed of innovation that the game of golf has. The InPutter is the latest piece of tech-enabled golf equipment to cross our desk, promising to lower your score by reshaping your short game.
  • Volkswagen's Golf R hot hatch has been given a practical, wagon makeover for the Los Angeles Auto Show. The Golf R Wagon will sprint from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in just 5.1 seconds, but still has space for the family in the back – and their dog in the boot.
  • Playing a round of golf can take a good few hours, not least because of the time taken to walk between shots. Using a golf cart can speed things up, especially if it goes 118 mph (190 km/h). That's the speed Plum Quick Motors says one of its high speed golf carts has hit to claim a new world record.
  • Technology has transformed the game of golf, not just in terms of carbon fiber shafts and remote control carts, but also in navigating your way around the course. One of the latest GPS navigation devices to hit the market is the GolfBuddy PT4. We headed out onto the links to see how it performs.
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