On Thursday Luke and myself played 18 holes of golf at the Burswood Park Golf Course. It was the first time since Wallsy’s 18th birthday (in November 1997) that I’d played so we were a bit rusty.

Caddies don’t just carry your golf clubs for you; they recommend the club to use based on the conditions and yardage.

At the 9.5th hole Luke and I fleshed out an idea for a digital caddy. You could track a player’s location with a GPS receiver in the digital caddy device, and from that you’d know the distance to the pin for each hole. With this, the digital caddy could recommend a club to use as well as angles or tips. You could even have a weather station on each golf cart and connect wireless back to them to get the absolute latest in wind conditions.

It seems we’re not the first to think of this idea.