Say Goodbye to Lost Balls: “The Greatest Golfing Invention of the 21st Century”
Fairways & Greens Magazine
February 2006
We’ve all said it: When will somebody put a chip in a golf ball so you can find it with a little handheld device? Chris Savarese had just that idea as he was tromping through the tall grass back in 1993. Nearly a decade later, the Northern Californian quit his job in the construction industry to search for the answer.
And the answer is RadarGolf, the greatest golf advancement of the fledgling 21st century.
With a remarkable simple-to-use handheld device and affordable, high-technology to locate your ball in the rough, behind branches, among the leaves—anywhere except under water.
“The big breakthrough was making the chip and the ball durable enough to withstand impact,” Savarese says. “When you hit a golf ball with a driver, the ball goes through an ungodly amount of g-force.”
In our testing, both the handheld device and the golf balls performed far better than expected. Balls were usually detected within about 15 paces of their location, and we pounded the USGA-approved RadarGolf balls more than 300 yards a whack and stuck them on greens using lob wedges.
What’s more, the technology can be applied to any golf ball so Savarese hopes for a day when all major manufacturers will offer RadarGolf versions of the industry’s most popular models. Titelist and Callaway, are you listening?
Meanwhile, with the system available at The Sharper Image as well as online, more and more people are experiencing “Radar Moments.” At FG, we found a ball hidden in the face of a greenside bunker. And during a holiday round of golf, the device quickened our nine-hole pace by at least 15 minutes. Most importantly, we saved strokes and played the round with one golf ball, which still looks as good as new.
And that alone—lowering the frustration factor—is worth every penny of this value-priced heavenly device. RadarGolf is truly the club every golfer needs in the bag. If you make only one golf purchase in 2005, make sure you find RadarGolf.
|
