Back in the day, gentleman farmers would often collect their crops by cutting the harvest down with lightsabers. It wasn’t long before the idea of golf was born out of the swinging motion, but it would take several years before they would decide to switch to a standard clubs in order to keep the ball intact. And you thought golf was a frustrating game now.
Golf in an expensive sport…believe me. There is always some new club or new gadget to buy, and most of them are overpriced and generally unnecessary. Take the Reconvilier Hercules Golf Master watch for example. There are plenty of GPS range-finders out there, including apps on cellphones, but Hercules has the technology built-in via a rotating face that displays analog time on one side and the GPS distance to the green on the other.
Taking a look back at one of Tiger Wood’s golf course designs, it is obvious his mind was elsewhere. It isn’t quite a championship course since all the holes are so easy.
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He almost made it to the clubhouse, but a guy in his foursome sliced a ball only ten yards off the tee and took him out. Friendly fire. Tragic.
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The poor cart girl at the golf course takes enough abuse from a bunch of arrested adolescents, adding this shirt to the arsenal just gives them more ammunition. The comparison is inevitable, though, with talk of twosomes, threesomes and foursomes from the moment you get to the course.
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You drag an umbrella to the golf course every time you go, but it hardly ever rains. This umbrella has a secondary function that will get a lot more use – it doubles as a ball retriever. While the umbrella may only get used once a year, the ball retriever will be used multiple times per outing.
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Thanks to Mic Golf, female golfers in Japan can now stay on the cutting edge of fashion when they wear one of these new Nail Art Golf gloves. As you can see, the designs are stylish and they feature exposed fingertips to highlight their beautifully manicured nails. With the popularity of womens golf rising rapidly, my guess is that it won’t be long before you see something like this in the states.
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