The Giant Golf Set you see here helps you hit the darn ball since it has been blown up. After all, who in their right mind would continue swinging at a ball all day long while missing the target?

The trouble with golf is that everything is so darn small. The club heads are tiny, the ball is minute, the holes are just ludicrous (as are the shoes of course), and you begin to wonder what on earth the point is. However, if it wasn’t for someone inventing pinhead golf, then some other idiot wouldn’t have come up with this super-size, super-stupid Giant Golf. Club, tee and ball are all ludicrously big, enabling even the tragically inept to take a successful swing and watch with smug satisfaction as their ball sails across the garden, beach or fairway. Though we don’t suggest trying this on a real fairway as golf clubs are renowned more for their feelings of self-importance than their sense of humor. It’s big, it’s beautiful and it’s a brilliantly fun lawn game.

The Giant Golf Set will retail for £19.99 a pop. You’ll need a sense of humor before purchasing this.

Somebody obviously had a few too many at the nineteenth hole before coming up with this idea.

Plug your Putt Returner into your computer’s USB port. This will automatically activate the game. Place the ball on your desk a short distance away from the Putt Returner and carefully line up your putt. Strike the ball smoothly with your miniature putter. If you hole your putt the ball will be sent right back to you!
Vary the distance and angle of your putts for a never-ending challenge!

The USB Putt thingie can be yours for £9.99 (~$20).

DiXX, a company that seems to specialize in digital products for the golf enthusiast, has created a Digital Instruction Putter designed to improve that dreaded short game. Happy Gilmore could have used one of these things to find his “happy place”.

The Digital Putter can somehow track your swing path, impact position, face angle, swing tempo, and speed balance. I’m not certain what all those golfing terms just meant, but I could figure out enough to know that it looks like it could help you. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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Here’s a new levitating deco gadget. Instead of the usual Earth globes or other planets, this one’s more mundane. Actually, it’s quite a nice present for any sports buff.

Whether it’s that snobby boss of yours, or your kid you’re pitching to on Saturday morning, you’ll find one for any of them.

There’s a golf ball floating above a mini pitch, and a baseball that levitates above a base.

Click on for some bigger pictures and for the little extra info you need to know about these.

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This is remote control golf retro style, Mini Golfing Mario & Luigi

You need to manually position Mario or Luigi next to the ball then use the Famicom styled remote to make him take a swing. When it’s time to take the next shot you can use the control to make them glide across the desk albeit you’ll be dragging them along with the wire.

This is one of the naffer products available at TG, sorry guys.

Golf Launchpad is likely the most realistic arcade like golf game yet. So realistic in fact that you can play it with your own clubs.
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Taking Halo or Call to Duty to a whole new level, Hackers have created an Wii IR Remote sensor and driver to port the trademarked remote setup to the Xbox 360. This latest hack turns the epic video game and console into a full fledged killing simulator.

Course, that’s not all the Xbox is good for. There’s sports games like Madden NFL, MLB Baseball or Tiger Woods Golf, there’s even hack and slash games like The Elder Scrolls. Imagine firing a phaser for the latest Star Trek Legacy game, or Battling for Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings (can we virtually put “my precious on?”), the possibilities are endless (especially when you have this hero game pack which let’s you strap on the sword and shield).
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