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Great Recovery helps prevent lost clubs.
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We’re just back from Orlando, Fla., and the annual PGA Merchandise Show, the industry event where anyone and everyone with golf-related products and services come to hawk their wares to the trade.
Of course, we roamed the aisles with an eye toward golf vacation gear and came up with a list of the good, the bad and the ugly for you. Today’s topic: The Good.
Making its show debut this year was a product called Great Recovery, designed to prevent the leaving and, therefore, losing of golf clubs on the course. It combines tiny transmitters inserted into the end of your grips (turns out those little holes are good for something) with a shaft-like sensor that you slide into your bag.
The system therefore “knows” when you remove clubs from the bag, and, if all are not returned, it beeps at you.
I’m normally not a fan of adding this type of gadgetry to a golf bag, but with some putters and wedges costing upwards of $150 each, it might not be a bad idea, especially when you’re on a golf vacation and the chances of recovering a lost club are significantly reduced.
With so few truly new, and even fewer truly useful, products at the show, this company, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, may actually sell a lot of these, particularly if they get their Web site working. At the time of this writing, it wasn’t.
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