Being able to make solid contact with the golf ball is not only essential to getting a better score on the golf course, it also saves us the embarrassment of watching our ball dribble off the tee instead of sailing into the fairway. Unfortunately, striking the ball solid the majority of the time doesn’t come without a price. It requires lots of practice and dedication to hone your skills.

Fortunately, we have a sea of accessories available to the weekend golfer today to help us get better in the limited time we have to practice. One of the best purchases you can make to help you practice hitting the ball solid more frequently is a practice net. Golf practice nets are available in a variety of types and offer different accessories, but they all serve the same purpose. It allows you to practice at your convenience, when you have time and in your back yard.

Currently, nets are on the market designed specifically for your short game and nets that will handle everything else. The indoor nets have been gaining more popularity lately than in the past. These net set up in your home, garage or indoor area and allow you to practice without having to worry about the weather.

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Last year, I was visiting Scottsdale AZ and I noted the supreme heat, it was even hot on the golf course, with all the grass around. Worse, because there are so many golf courses there, the humidity was quite high, and it takes a lot out of you just to play a round of golf, even if you are driving a golf cart. The golf cart we were using was equipped with a “mister system” which was quite nice. Still, we had to get out of the cart each time we hit the ball, and while we were on the green putting. Now then, I think I have a new invention idea, a rather cool innovation that the golf community needs there.

What they need is mini-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) blimps with mister systems, which follow the golfers around. While they are following the golfers around, they can send a signal back of the bird’s eye view of the course to the player’s iPad or tablet. The golf carts now have holders for the iPad and tablets on the steering wheels as you golf in case you want to get all the information about each hole, as you play. Therefore it would be quite easy for the UAV video camera to send the real-time video feed back to the golfers. The UAV Blimp could also measure the angle and speed of the golf ball, along with the yardage, and send all of that data back to the iPad or tablet.

The UAV could hover above the golfer as it was their turn to hit the ball, spraying a cool fine mist, and as the golfer went to hit the ball the UAV could move vertically for a perfect camera shot to perhaps 18 to 40 feet above the fairway. Now then, there are several different models of indoor remote controlled micro air vehicles. Since a round of golf doesn’t take that long to play, the UAV would need to hold just over a gallon of water which is a little over 7 pounds. The UAV would have to be quiet also, and therefore its propulsion system would have to have specially shaped propellers, luckily such technology does exist.

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Continuous improvement in the Golf industry has paved the way for many interesting advancements and inventions. This has benefited the golfers in many ways like higher quality of golf courses and golf clubs besides giving many other benefits as well. Many at times golf has been looked upon as a tiresomely slow sport, which requires a lot of trekking and hard work on the golfer’s part! But now there are many unique golfing accessories made available to make the game easier than ever before. While some of these accessories are highly publicized others have slipped through the holes. Either way continue reading to discover more about these accessories that make life easier.

Let’s take for instance the many types of glasses that help you to better focus on the ball that has been hit by you. These glasses filter much the light given out by the non-golf objects, this helps leave the ball to be perfectly outlined against the grass. In case you keep losing your ball or have trouble keeping track of it after hitting it, then these glasses would be perfect for you and it would be worth the buy. While you may avail them at some of the golf stores they are also available on many stores online.

There are also many other convenient devices that help you to practise the various parts of your stroke. One of the highly popular ones are those that deal with putting, as putting is the most important and tough part of the golf game. The numbers of such accessories are too many to be named, but among the most famous are the indoor putting green which provides you with golf balls and also advice on your putting. It is a device that holds many golf balls inside its shaft to hand out when needed besides performing other functions.

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