The eCaddy Digital Scorecard is a digital device that hangs from your bag and lets you enter scores, Stableford points, handicaps, and hole handicaps. You also can enter player and course names. When playing on your own, the eCaddy turns into a full fledged game analysis device, as you keep track of fairways and roughs hit, shot types, etc. You later can download the information for further analysis to your computer.

Steve Czaban of OnMilwaukee has a good article on his favorite golf gadgets of the summer:  Underarmor underwear; Hi-Tec Golf Shoes; the Putting Arc; Vijay Singh’s Speedstick; Dual Zone sunglasses; and Titleist’s new hybrid irons, which he says look more like a beefed up iron than an undersized wood.

If you play in the early morning, you know how quickly your cleats can get gunked up with the shards of the morning’s mowing. My club has cleat cleaners at every tee, but not all clubs do. In those cases, you need something more than a spare tee. The Shoe Tool Spike Cleaner may be the ticket. Its made of steel with a vinyl grip, and can be attached to your bag.

We’re having a heat wave here again in Michigan. It got up to 95 yesterday, and it’s supposed to be even hotter today. I’m heading ot the course at 7 am to beat the heat.

A cool thing I found to beat the heat is this Misty Mate Cool Mist Blaster.  You fill it up with water, pump it up, and it sprays a cool mist. Th company says the thing can reduce the temperature by thirty degres.

If you don’t have a physical handicap, you should walk when you play golf. The health benefits are enormous, and your game will improve, too. I guarantee it. I’ve often worn a pedometer when playing to keep track of just how far I go. (hint: its a lot longer than the actual length of the course, since I have a tedency to wander from one side of the fairway to the other.) To keep track of your miles, you could try the Accusplit Activity Pedometer. The manufacturer says it is the most accurate tested in the last ten years. And it has a lanyard in addition to the belt clip, which is a really good thing, since my last pedometer fell off when I wasn’t paying attention. I hope that whoever found it is using it.

The pedometer also includes a “From Tee To Green” wellness program guide.

I’ll confess to being one of those guys who has to rummage through his pockets when he gets to the green trying to find a ball marker. The Magnetic Cap Clups might solve my problem. They clip on the brim of your hat. Just reach up to your brim and pull it off. Then put it back when you’re done. You’ll always know where your ball marker is.

Naah. That’s too easy.

Putterbabies is a putter cover with a twist. Instead of taking it on and off your putter, the cover stays attached to your golf bag:

The putter head rests upon the back of a doll in a locked position, the putter shaft is within a tube and the butt end is suspended off the bag floor. The putter may be retained inside or outside the bag for either left or right handed players. The putter holder is user friendly and does not have to be removed or replaced during play as in the common animal putter head or iron covers. Fits Adult and Junior golf bags.