Suunto G9 GPS Watch

In the “what will they think of next” column, I offer the Suunto G9 watch as a prime exhibit.

Suunto G9 will help you measure your strokes with 12 channel GPS technology so that you know how far you really strike with each club. It also stores statistics of each game: number of putts, number of bunker hits, whether you had a fairway hit and whether you reached the green in regulation. Learn more about your game, see how your game develops and what you should do to improve your game. You can store your favorite courses or check from suuntosports.com whether someone else has stored them and download them to your Suunto G9. Having the course key points stored, Suunto G9 will give you distances and directions to tee, green, pin and other obstacles such as water or bunkers on each fairway. It will even recommend club selection after a couple of rounds of play.

Its amazing.

Twenty years ago, when I was in college, a friend of mine marveled at my 4.77 mhz, 64K of ram computer and said “Its a cool world and getting cooler all the time.”

I look at this watch and think how far we’ve come from then.

Its a cool world and getting cooler all the time.