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Digest Magazine
April 2006
Golf Digest Tested.
You
swore your shot was
OK, but your five-minute
search just ended
and you just lost
another ball and the
match. With RadarGolf’s
new microchip-embedded
golf balls and tracking
system, that doesn’t
have to happen again.
In our test, we pumped
a dozen U.S. Golf
Association-approved
balls into all kinds
of nasty places, but
the hand-held unit’s
metal detector-like
signal, which beeps
at a quicker rate
the closer you get,
found all 12. The
balls (a dozen are
included--$40 value)
performed like normal
golf balls. ... the
RadarGolf System works.
Matthew Rudy
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.
Never
Lose Another Ball.
Get This!
Golf
Magazine
February 2006
BEEEEP,
beeeep, beeeep! No,
that's not the ranger's
pacemaker you hear.
The sound coming from
the rough is actually
your sliced tee shot,
which you located
in seconds thanks
to the RadarGolf ball-finding
system. Invented by
a software wiz who
grew tired of losing
balls, the handheld
gadget's radio frequency
scans the course for
a microchip (the size
of a grain of rice)
fitted into a low-compression,
two-piece ball (a
dozen included). The
beeping intensifies
the closer you get
to your AWOL orb until,
eureka! Lost and found.
It's USGA-approved
for friendly rounds,
though not in competition.
"The balls fly
pretty far, and I
found all my bad shots,"
says our smitten tester.
"Well, not all
of them. It doesn't
work well under water."
Radar Love
Andrew Penner, 02.04.05
It’s
coming. It had to.
It was inevitable.
What, you ask? The
next why-didn’t-I-think-of-that
invention, that’s
what: a radar tracking
system so you’ll
never – ok,
rarely – lose
your golf ball.
Thanks
to a microchip positioned
in the core of the
ball and a handheld
device, RadarGolf,
a start-up company
based in Roseville,
California, stands
a legitimate chance
of changing the game
as we know it. Time
will tell.
Oh
sure, it probably
won’t change
the way the pros play.
Lining every fairway
are hundreds of too-eager
fans just dying to
roll boulders out
of the way, pounce
on runaway balls,
and trample the rough
to find their hero’s
ball. Thanks to the
help, rarely does
a tour player ever
lose a ball.
But
for you and I, smacking
it around with our
buddies on Saturday
morning, spraying
them into the woods
on every other tee
- we have a legitimate
need for something
like this.
The
company is a few months
away from launching
the product. Information
on the system is readily
available on their
website, www.RadarGolf.com.
The system will retail
for $249.00, including
a dozen radar-ready
balls. RadarGolf balls,
which are constructed
to USGA standards,
will retail for $39.95
per dozen. (Because,
well, there might
be the odd ball that
slices into an alligator-infested
pond.)
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