Gift Ideas for the Golf Enthusiast

Continuing with our coolest gadgets gift guide here we have a load of gifts to buy for the golf enthusiast (mainly gadgety but some may even be useful).

Golf for Dummies

This is nice gift for the beginner or big headed accomplished golfer.

If you don’t know the difference between a lob wedge and a lemon wedge, check out Golf for Dummies, by CBS commentator Gary McCord, one of the game’s most colorful–and knowledgeable–characters. It’s a wonderful, often hilarious, never boring introduction to the game.

The book is available from Amazon for $7.99 at the time of writing.

Joke Golf Ball Set

One for the golfer with a sense of humor.

set of four Prank Golf Balls which include our Exploder - which disintegrates into a white cloud of smoke when hit, Jet-Streamer - When hit, The Jet Streamer ejects 15 feet of streaming red ribbon., The Phantom - it implodes in to a giant wall of water when hit., and finally the Unputtaball - This will wiggle, go everyway but straight when hit.

Cost: $12.89 at Amazon.

Electronic Scorecard

Because a pencil and paper is so last season.

Our Electronic Golf Scorecard tracks strokes and holes played, calculates scores and even saves your best round—all at the touch of a button.

Price: $25 from Brookstone.

Automatic Golf Tee

This device automatically tees a golf ball perfectly every time, allowing golfers to practice chipping, driving, or putting on grass or mats without changing stance to set the ball. It holds up to 35 golf balls and doesn’t require a power source; by simply lowering the arm with your club, the device places the next ball onto the tee.

For sale for $34.95 at Hammacher

Electronic Drink Caddie

Who says you need to wait until the nineteenth hole.

The perfectly discreet way to enjoy hot or cold drinks right from your golf bag. It looks like a regulation driver, but its secret is the one-button dispensing pump. Designed to sit unobtrusively in a side pocket so it doesn’t take up space inside

Cost: $99.95 at Brookstone.

Golf Swing Analyzing Watch

We reported on the golf swing analyzing watch earlier in the year and it’s still cool but a tad on the expensive side.

If you take your golfing seriously (or just like spending a load of money on golf gadgets) and want to know everything there is to know about your golf swing then this watch could be the answer.
The golf swing analysing watch records a load of statistics about your swing, including:

1. Tempo
2. Rhythm
3. Backswing length
4. Club-head speed
5. and the time

If you’re buying this as a gift you must be either loaded or really love the recipient as it will cost you $399.95.

Stewart Golf X3R Remote Golf Caddie

It might look like a futuristic lawn mower, but this is described as the “the fairway Ferrari” motorized golf caddie and don’t know any golfer that wouldn’t be impressed getting one of these for Chrimbo.

A first-of-its-kind cruise-control system lets you select any of four programmable speeds. Features gradual braking plus an emergency brake for immediate stopping. Includes convenient storage for balls, tees, towel, scorecard and pencil; and a gimbal-mounted drink holder that adjusts for long or short bottles and cans.

The remote control golf caddie costs $1,995.00 from Sharper Image.

Golden Tee Arcade Game for the Home

This is for die hard golfer that finds there just aren’t enough daylight hours (and also has a very rich friend), the Golden Tee Home Arcade Game.

This is the video game that is officially licensed by the makers of Golden Tee, played by more than 10 million tavern-goers each year and renowned as one of the most popular golf video games available, allowing you to play arcade-style golf in the comfort of your home. Each of the 29 included courses have two additional par-4 holes that are reachable from the tee, ensuring better odds of an eagle for players of all skill levels, while a drop feature allows you to place the ball on the fairway and take a penalty stroke instead of attempting to play through an impossible lie.

Cost: $3,999.95 (Ouch).

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A New Golf Table Game: Strategic “Fore-Thought”

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It’s like a box of toys for the golfer…..but with RULES!!!

It’s a one-of-a-kind “board-less” golf table game that sparks the imagination, and immerses the players in social and mentally-challenging interaction…..an absolute thrill to open and play in friendly competition!!!

This Limited Edition of Strategic “Fore-Thought” brought to you by IngeNEWitty is a unique golf table game invented, designed, and crafted with care to bring you many enjoyable hours of social interaction with friends and family. It comes complete for table play or you can add your own chipping wedge and putter to take the game to a whole new exciting level.

In a completely new playing format, you are transported to a beautiful fantasy golf course in the Spring of the year that you could only dream about. It’s a championship 18-hole, par 72, 7,240 yard course, realistically detailed with trials and tribulations of the finest world-class challenge courses. It’s a greens-keeper’s paradise, and the immaculate graphic illustrations “take you there”…..the rest is up to you!!!

The name Strategic “Fore-Thought” says it all…..each hole requires assessment of risks and rewards BEFORE ‘hitting’ the ball. Strategy is key in this realistic game of fun and frustration, and each golfer formulates his/her own individual approach using strategic forethought and, of course, ingenuity (get it?????). Do you go for the green? Or do you lay up? Do you shoot for a Target Zone? Or does a Hazard pose a risk? What are the odds?

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How the game is played:

Using forethought strategically, you survey potential landing areas, choose your preferred path to the green, use the “Shot-Master” to guide your club selection, tee it up (roll the die), and determine your fate. Track your location and stroke count on the “Shot-Master” along the way.

Next shot will be crucial, but the Yardage Calculator helps to gauge the situation. Go for the greenie? Or suffer the short game? Are you good at putting?

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The designated Pro Shop Manager records scores, awards Bonus Cards and prizes, officiates on all wagering, and handles any disputes that may arise. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s ‘gotta’ do it. After all, golfers have been known to ‘fudge’ occasionally!!!

Complete rules with additional optional forms of play are provided, and contents include:

• 1 graphics booklet
• 1 tee mat
• 1 putting ring
• 4 “Shot Masters” (to help you keep track of where you are on each hole and your number of strokes as you continue to ‘hit’)
• 4 golf balls
• 4 ball markers
• 16 tees
• 1 die
• 20 scorecards
• 70 bonus cards
• $590 play money

On top of that you get an original “Yardage Calculator” designed by the inventor to aid in calculating the distance required to advance your ball to your next goal throughout the course. Additional product information accompanied by illustrative fly-by views are available on our website. Be sure to stop by and “Take The Tour” for the fun of it!!!

What you DO get:

Superb graphic illustration that gives the “feel” of being out for a round
Yard-by-yard ball advancement the way golf was meant to be played
Opportunity to display your chipping and putting prowess
Loads of social interaction in friendly competition…..and time to eat snacks

What you DON’T get:

A playing board that looks like a cartoon
Cutesy little tokens to move around space-to-space
Trivia questions that bore you to tears
Fancy packaging without meaningful game content

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