TechnoGolf

I was just playing down at my local course and there have been a few changes recently. Golf is now embracing technology in a big way.
The whole course is now covered in WiFi hotspots at the tees. Instead of scorecards we were given Nokia N810 tablets running a scorecard application and course information. Clicking on the link for each hole gives the yardages and using the inbuilt GPS marks your current location on the course. Clicking the wings icon takes you into a fly-by video of the hole. The video did take a little time to display, even though things are now improved with Flash 9.
The application syncs with the server back in the clubhouse whenever we are in range of the Wifi (most of the time), giving us the latest scores from all the other competitors on the course. There's even a 'real-time' leaderboard.
Drinks and snacks can be ordered 'online' from the clubhouse, and of course, they know where we are because the GPS location is also synced back!
It is possible (though somewhat tedious) to record every shot using the GPS to plot the lines from start to finish and the application can learn which club to select, based on your past performance with the club. Personally I'll stick with instinct for that.
The only problem was giving back the Nokia N810 at the end of the round...


(n.b. the moral of this story is; never eat any strange looking mushrooms that grow on golf courses! )