Caddy Aid to the rescue of clubs and golfers

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Two week ago on this blog we presented two gadgets to improve your golf game and if you liked those devices you will also like the Caddy Aid.

This gadget, created by DMC, is useful for golfers that face for the first time a course but it can also appeal those players that want to use an advanced system to track the various holes.

Before teeing off Caddy Aid helps you in two different ways. First of all it allows you to take an aerial look of the hole in several different ways.

You can watch a movie of the course from a helicopter perspective or you can look at high quality pictures of the hole or, lastly, you can see the course topographical undulations.

This gives you a pretty good idea of the direction of your shots and the eventual pitfalls of the hole. Among the latters there is certainly the wind and once you enter the direction of it for one hole Caddy Aid will automatically signal the direction on other holes too.

Then you have to decide what club you are going to use and Caddy Aid comes to rescue in this phase too. The gadget in fact can calculate the distance between two points on the current hole played.

All you have to do is touch the screen two times to tell the gadget where you are and where you want to send the ball. Caddy Aid will then tell you the distance so you will be able to pick the right club.

Apart from helping the golfer the Caddy Aid can also be useful for the golf club. The latter in fact can rent the gadget to its members and use it to convey several messages like secretarial updates and even advertising (it can show the products sold by the club).

The club can put on it virtually every kind of advertisement it wants (both in moving or still images) so the products sponsored are not limited to the golf area.

The Caddy Aid’s price is set to 720 US dollars and if you do not want to spend that much then it’s time to ask your club to buy it. DMC is now taking international orders from golf clubs so there are no more excuses to play without this great gadget.