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October 11, 2005
Hi-Tech Chip Shots
Posted by Nick
Golf continues to innovate in amazing ways. Here's a cool new technology coming to a range near you.
Chipping a golf ball takes on a whole new meaning, thanks to British leisure company, World Golf Systems Group, the makers of a new driving range technology, TopGolf.
The company's technicians embedded radio frequency identification computer chipping tags into balls, allowing driving-range computers to track the accuracy of players' shots. And the technology is coming to Australia.
During a TopGolf game, players take aim at 11 targets ranging in diameter from about five to 22 metres, that are up to 220 metres away. Each target is divided into sections, like a dartboard. If the ball lands on a target section, it drops through a funnel beneath that is equipped with a computer-chip reader and the range system scores the player accordingly. If the ball misses a target, the player slides a fresh ball out of the dispenser. That tells the computer the previous shot was a dud and sets up the player's next turn.
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Nick Schulz is the Editor of Tech Central Station and has worked in media circles and the ideas industry as a writer, editor, television producer and policy analyst. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The National Post of Canada, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Reason, Policy Review, and several other publications. He is also, it should be said, a rabid sports fan whose fandom is inversely proportional to his overall athletic ability.
