I took the family to see Wall*E the other day and we all were enamored with the “humanity” of the little bots. Here’s one that very successfully mimics a players manerisms while setting up a putt.

Kool Tee

My father-in-law broke his neck two winters ago in a skiing accident. It was a very serious incident—and somewhat touch-and-go—but he has managed to recover very nicely. One side effect, however, is that his neck is fused in place—he has very little mobility either sideways or up and down.

That makes it difficult for him to do many things we take for granted, such as getting into and out of cars ... and teeing up balls on the golf course.

Noticing the great difficulty he has with that, I did a web search for products to assist the disabled with teeing a ball. There are quite a few out there, but the Kool Tee looks to me like it might be the best of the bunch.

Still, I’m not sure. At $70, it’s a little expensive to take a flyer.

If anyone has ever used a teeing device, I’d be interested in hearing about your experience.

No backyard is complete without an Eball Inflatable Golf simulator. On the outside it looks like one of those inflatable childrens’ bounding gyms. On the inside, it has a state-of-the-art ball sensor simulator.

I used to think I was hot stuff with my Sun Mountain Speed Cart. But a cart called the Shadow Caddy really takes the prize. It’s a fully automated golf bag cart that simply follows you around the course. The user just carries a tracking devce that has a simple follow me/park button. Sensors on board the Shadow Caddy prevent it from colliding with other objects, or from attempting impassible slopes. You can watch the video below:

Golf Cradle

Grade: A+
Teacher’s Comments:
The Golf Cradle is easily one of the two or three best golf accessories I’ve ever seen.

Unless you belong to a country club with lockers and a bag check, odds are pretty good that you lug your clubs around in the trunk of your car. You know it’s not exactly good for them, but you really don’t have a better option.

Now you do. The Golf Cradle is a designed to stabilize your clubs in the trunk, raising the neck of the bag off the floor to avoid damage to your shafts and heads.

The Golf Cradle consists of a swivel base, upon which is mounted a pair of hinged jaws. When you place the neck of your bag into the center of the open jaws, the bag’s weight forces them closed, securing it in place. There’s also a strap with a snap in case you have an oddly shaped bag that need extra security.

I was a bit worried at first that the cradle wouldn’t fit into the very narrow space behind the back seats of my short-bed minivan, but as you can see from the photo, it fits perfectly.

And it works perfectly. The Golf Cradle is a great product, and given the number of people with clubs banging about in their trunks, the company should sell millions of them.