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Golf Gadgets That Somebody Should Invent1. The first golf gadgets I would like to see is a ball with a built-in compass. When you finally make your hole, don't you retrieve your ball and look at it every time? What the heck are we looking for, anyway, signs of distress? Anyway, the thing that's on your mind at the moment is "Now where's the next hole?" the compass on the ball could point the way.2. Filtering ear-plugs. You want ear plugs to drown out all the chatter going on all around from heckling onlookers, chatty staff, and the annoying kids who show up thinking that a golf course is a place to socialize just like "Second Life". But you want to be able to hear the golf ball when it splashes into the water hazard just over the hill or ricochets off trees, so you can find it again. the solution would be to have ear plugs that only filter out people. Come to think of it, you could use these around the office, too. For the same reasons. 3. Solar-powered golf cart golf gadget. You only golf when it's reasonably sunny, right? Electric carts run out of juice and need to be recharged, gas carts run out of gas. Need we say more? 4. We need longer tees as a new golf gadgets candidate. Hardly the Earth-shattering invention, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to stick the tee into the ground to a reasonable depth of stability instead of trying to fumble it around in the turf and half the time end up with it leaning or wobbling when you try to set your ball on it? Also deeper tees would give you a chance to impale unsuspecting gophers lurking underground and pierce the occasional sprinkler pipe, adding some amusement. 5. A ball alarm. Why can we hit a remote and make our cars beep, but can't do something similar when we're trying to find the ball in the scruff? Balls need audio - we have that now anyway. You could also set it to no-tamper, so it would go off if moved - handy when somebody else wants to grab it before you get to it. 6. Creative club design. All golf clubs look basically the same, so there's no opportunity to customize for style. You know how heavy-metal bass players get to call their guitar an "ax" and have it be shaped like anything from a flamingo to a Conan sword? What would it be like to characterize clubs that way? Vikings can have a dragon's head, Irishmen could have a shillelagh, and so on. Then it would have some character; you could name your weapon something epic like "Golf-Smiter".
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