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As technology advances in marketplaces around the globe, golf is experiencing innovative new trends too. New gear, analytics, and smart devices are changing the way golfers of all levels experience the game.
Gone are the days of basic gameplay and here are the days of smart golf.
From technologies designed to make you more comfortable on the course to ones that will help you improve your stroke, golf tech trends run the gamut.
Take a look at some of the cool new gadgets and incredible smart products that are changing the way golf is played.
GPS-Enabled Golf Carts
GPS golf carts improve the overall experience of gameplay. These golf carts are equipped with GPS monitors that show your position on a course and in relation to other players and holes.
This is beneficial to pacing your game, estimating your distance from holes and players, avoiding hazards, and conceptualizing course layout. Each of these features helps you anticipate the many facets of your game.
Additionally, GPS-enabled golf carts keep you in contact with the clubhouse and other carts. Great for navigating the course, strategy planning, and timing your game, these sophisticated golf carts are changing the way the game is played for the better.
Data Tracking Apps
Data analytics are on the up and up in the world of golf. New to recreational golf, data analytics have been used in recent history to help professional golfers improve their games.
Essentially, this technology employs smart sensors in your golf club to track data in a corresponding app.
Some of the information these sensors can track include:
- yardage on each hole
- post-game recaps
- strokes gained in specific areas
- map overlays for each round
- golf club recommendations
Gone are the days of walking the holes for distances, wracking your brain to remember specifics about an earlier game, and guessing at which club will serve you best. Data-tracking smart sensors deliver all of this information (and more) directly to your smartphone.
In any sport, half the battle is knowing where you need to improve; data tracking apps provide you with the insight you need to make the necessary tweaks to your game.
Hybrid Golf Clubs
Innovations in golf are also improving gear and equipment; this is especially true when it comes to hybrid golf clubs. Hybrid golf clubs are forgiving clubs that can loft a ball higher in the air with little effort.
As a result, they’ve replaced long irons, as well as woods and fairway drivers, in many golfers’ bags.
Hybrid golf clubs achieve the height of long irons, but can also navigate long grass and rough greens and go the distance of fairway woods. Thus, hybrid golf clubs are diverse and efficient.
Robot Caddies
While a robot caddy doesn’t have all the charm, wit, and insight of its human counterpart, it is pretty impressive. One of the robot caddy’s many talents includes carting around golf clubs while following its golfer.
Using a Bluetooth sensor worn by its golfer, the robot caddy trails its human with golf clubs in tow. It maintains speed with its human, steers precisely, and stops automatically.
When you’re ready to tee off, you flip a switch, and the caddy knows to back off.
Using a robotic caddy puts amateur golfers at a new advantage. Gone are the days of schlepping around heavy golf bags; with a robotic caddy, you can golf without this added exertion affecting your energy.
Although not all models are created equal, some robotic caddies are GPS-enabled and can calculate yardages too. While robotic caddies are not commonplace, some courses around the U.S. are renting them more than ever.
Be on the lookout for this up-and-coming golf innovation.
Improved Golf Shoes
Technologies in golf gear have evolved from head to toe since its invention in the mid-16th century, and this is especially true for golf shoes.
Golf shoes of yesteryear were clunky, heavy cleats made of unforgiving leather and nailed-in spikes. Historically, golf shoes were made of hot, stuffy materials with firm, flat soles…a far cry from athletic footwear.
Today’s golf shoes are light, comfortable, and forgiving.
Each year, new technologies are introduced that improve the comfort and functionality of golf footwear. Today, you can expect golf shoes to feature stylish aesthetics, great arch support, and breathable materials.
A newly trending concept in golf shoes is hybrid models that can be worn both on and off the golf course. These hybrids are spikeless and more like a sneaker than a typical golf cleat.
While some golfers still swear by spiked, cleat-style shoes, many have moved to spikeless models with incredible traction.
Another cool innovation in golf shoes is the use of BOA lacing, the kind of smart lacing system that employs the use of knobs like in snowboarding boots. This type of lacing system gives you a perfect fit every time while securely locking your laces
Launch Monitors
Golf launch monitors are an innovative way to measure your golf metrics. From your swing to impact and trajectory to speed, these compact monitors pack a big punch. Amazingly, launch monitors use radar sensors to extrapolate data and calculate your ball’s total distance and landing location.
One of the best things a launch monitor can give you is self-awareness; it provides you with accurate data about your shortcomings, strong suits, progress, and regressions.
Using the information gleaned from launch monitors, you can improve your swing, impact, drive, and beyond. Launch monitors are
Putting Your Golf Tech to Good Use
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Break in your new shoes, test out those hybrid clubs, and learn from your new launch monitor. No matter which of the amazing new technologies you're touting, Bella Collina is the place to do it. Contact us today.
