My eldest desperately wants to go to Michigan Tech. He’s only 12, but has decided that his calling in life is to be an engineer.

Here’s a great story about a group of Michigan Tech students who designed a device that lets a paraplegic fellow student play golf. 

The device is built onto a golf bag, and is controlled by a joystick. It uses compressed air and two large gears to swing the club.

You can see video here.

CLEVELAND 588 RS Wedge with Steel Shaft

Cleveland Golf is justifiably famous for its line of wedges. Every golfer I know has at one time or another had a Cleveland wedge in their bag.

The 588 RS Wedge is a wide sole model, designed to offer a low center of gravity, for a high and soft launch angle. A back cavity is supposed to reduce vibration, while enabling Cleveland engineers to move more weight away from the face. The Cleveland 588 RS Wedge is one of the most popular wedge face profiles in golf and insures confidence at address disguising the large recovery sole.

At 11,000 feet in the Andes Mountains, the Mallasilla golf club in Peru is the world’s highest. Reuters has a story on how some indigenous women, known as Cholitas have taken up the game because they work at the otherwise exclusive golf course. There are some great photos with the story, too.

I think there’s a challenge in this story. One of the big golf magazines ought to sponsor a person to play at both the highest (Mallasilla) and the lowest courses (perhaps the Furnace Creek Course) in the world.

Golf balls don’t grow on trees. But they can get embedded in one. The Memphis Commercial Appeal has a photo and story of a new golf ball found embedded in a tree limb.

I wonder if it belongs to long-time GolfBlogger reader Martin.

The Westchester Golf Course is holding an interesting event: Night Golf. It’s five holes of golf at night, using glow balls on a course marked by glow sticks.

Sounds like fun.