Looks like a suicide machine to me . . .

Ice Sticks Flexible Ice Trays

Here’s a neat idea for the summer heat. Freeze up some sticks and put them in your water bottle.

Bushnell NEO-X Golf GPS Watch

The Bushnell Neo-X Golf GPS is now $50 off at GolfSmith.

The watch bills itself as the lightest and thinnest golf GPS watch in the world. It has 30,000+ updateable courses with no downloads or membership fees The watch offers front, center and back distances, hazards, shot distance, auto-hole advance and an odometer. Bushnell says that it will last three rounds on a charge.

Tee Pal Ball and Tee Placement Device

Tee Pal is designed to help golfers who cannot bend over to set their own tees. It also lets you pick up a ball and tee from the grass.

A great idea.

Garmin Approach S1 GPS Watch

Garmin’s approach S1 watch is on sale at GolfSmith for $149, down from the original $249.

I got an amusing press release from GolfBuddy recounting the story of a golfer on holiday who inadvertently racked up thousands of dollars in data charges using his phone as a golf GPS. The international charges ran to more than $3,000. I’m sure that was quite the shock when he returned home to Germany.

On a Boy Scout camping trip we took to Canada this past year, everyone was warned to turn their smart phones off—and leave them off—to avoid accidental international data charges.

The moral of the story, according to GolfBuddy is that he should have used a stand-alone GPS instead.

I’ve used a smartphone GPS on occasion and found two problems. First, it chews through the batteries. On my phone, I can usually only get through fourteen or fifteen holes. Second, on more isolated courses (and there are many of those in Michigan), I can’t get a proper signal.

You won’t have either of those issues with a dedicated GPS or a laser rangefinder.

The full text of the press release is below:

Seriously? I think it would be so loud as to disturb players on the other holes.