Tag: GOLF

Don't expect Tiger Woods to practice this way, but for many South Koreans, hitting the virtual greens is much more practical than playing the real sport. According to a report from CNN, many of the country's 3.5 million golfers opt to play golf simulators instead of the 260 golf courses, which tend to be prohibitively expensive and crowded. In contrast, a round of virtual golf costs somewhere ...

When 24-year-old Graham Hunt of Essex, England first played 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008' on the Nintendo Wii, he got hooked on golf. After mastering the game in his living room, Hunt decided that he wanted to take his Wii-mote skills to the real golf course. There was just one problem. Since a neurological disorder struck him three years ago, he's been paralyzed from the waist down. After a ...

Golf is a game steeped in tradition and etiquette. The quietest whisper or flash of a camera is usually met with piercing stares and clenched jaws, from players and fans both. So we are shocked to see LPGA Tour Commissioner Carolyn Bivens telling Bloomberg she would like to encourage golfers to use their cell phones to tweet while on the course. Bivens explained she wants golfers to use ...

Here's one for you...what do you get when you take Japanese ingenuity, cow dung, four-wheeled transportation, and a bio-fuel processing plant and mix them all together? Why a poo-powered golf cart, of course. Okay, Yamaha's experimental golf cart runs on methane, but that gas is developed from cow dung. This magical process takes place in Japan's Kartori region at a lovely sounding 'burg called ...

Unless you're a serious golf enthusiast, watching golf tournaments on television can be about as exciting as caddying for an old fuddy-duddy who has no sense of humor. The annual Masters Tournament, one of golf's four majors, begins this week at the famed Augusta National golf course in Georgia. The tournament's official Web site is now offering unparalleled, interactive video coverage that is ...

Golf is not considered a dangerous game. If anything, it is the sport over-protective mothers make their children play so they never get hurt. Those moms may want to re-think that strategy after they read this... Experts are warning that thin-faced titanium drivers, those popular behemoths that give you an extra 1000 yards off the tee, may actually make the user go deaf. The drivers are so ...

Here's a gift for the geek and golfer on your holiday shopping list, the Gyro Swing, a golf club with a gyroscope in the head. A perfect gift, that is, as long as you don't mind dropping $200 and are comfortable with purchasing something based on questionable scientific claims. The gimmicky Gyro Swing claims that the gyroscopic disc inside the head, which spins 20,000 times per minute, lets you ...

In golf, the helpful caddy is a rare site these days among amateur players, replaced typically by motorized golf carts or little three-wheeled rollers. But, driving around in a cart takes away something from the nature of the game, and dragging your bag behind you isn't all that much better than carrying it. If you're looking for another option -- and have oodles of cash to blow -- you might want ...

You know how we love plug-in hybrids around these parts, particularly if they're actually going to get built -- crazy, we know. Now it looks like Volkswagen is going to get into the game, with a "Twin Drive" Golf powered by a 122 horsepower diesel engine and 82 horsies of electric motor. The car should debut around 2010, and VW plans on spending $769 million on the project, helped along by a ...

Never mind paying absurd quantities of cash to have some swing analyzer tell you how you'll never be like Tiger -- just pick yourself up one of these concoctions. E Ball's inflatable golf simulator not only consumes your entire backyard, it takes you back to those glory days of frolicking at the fair with your BFF, and it even allows you to practice your game in less-than-flawless weather. The ...

For many, a day on the golf course is a chance to leave the world behind, commune with nature and drink. Heavily. For others, it is a chance to vent and break things and curse a lot. Geostate, a British company, doesn't want to change this at all. It justs wants you to be able to tell you where your ball is since you've worm-burned it into the nearest shrubbery. That would be the shrubbery ...