Golf Goes Electronic

“Promising to do for golf what the ATM did for banking, the new TeePod Information System from 4everSports, based on the VIA EPIA VE5000 Mini-ITX mainboard, enriches the game of golf by providing a revolutionary web-based scoring, information, communication and management system all in one.”

Let’s think about this for a minute. It’s a good thing to bring electronics to golf. People have been craving that jump in technology ever since Microsoft Golf appeared, haven’t they? No more mulligans, no more mistakenly entered scores, all those things for which golf clubs have suffered ignomious fates are now in the power of the microchip. But ATM machines? Does that mean if you’re a guest playing on someone else’s course you’ll have to pay an extra green’s fee and then the course you’re actually a member of will then charge you an additional fee because you used someone else’s?