Technically, this isn’t my first entry but I feel that it’s my first real entry.
This past Saturday, I played in a Golf Tournament for my old Scout Group and someone playing in the tournament had showed me his GPS specifically for Golf Courses. I’ve experienced this GPS technology when I played a round of golf with my Uncle and my Brother last year and I felt that wasn’t worth paying for the software (The program allowed me to play at 5 Golf Courses before I had to pay).
But when I saw this particular GPS, it was more enhanced than what I used on my cell phone. Now mind you you’re paying over $300 for the GPS and only $40 for the software that is compatible with cell phone technology. This particular GPS had the Golf Course we played at and allow you to not only measure distance to the middle of the Green but adjust the flag location on the GPS for an even more accurate distance. The GPS also calculated the distance to landmarks like bunkers, ponds, doglegs, etc. Also, if your ball happened to land just off of the green, the GPS will rotate with where your ball lies (where your ball is when playing your next shot) to give you an accurate chip shot. One thing that this GPS cannot do is calculate slope on the greens, which would have helped me that day. Another great feature is that if there is a course that isn’t listed that you could map your own course and then upload your course so that others can download the course that you mapped.
Now, this is where I think outside of the box …
If a lot of people download a course that you mapped in a small time frame like a week, this tells the makers of the GPS that they need to map this course out. People are interested in this course, might as well map it. They have a head start with someone doing the basic tee markers, fairway and green. All that is needed to complete this course is to map out the landmarks.
And that’s what I’m thinking … outside of the box!
