Golf Launchpad USB Golf Simulator for PC

Juniper Foo | Nov 06, 2006

If your greatest golfing triumph is thwacking the green to bits, check out the Golf Launchpad for practicing that swing at home or in your cubicle without making a fool of yourself in public. Don't make the mistake of thinking this is another naff USB flummery. Like the USB Turntable, the Golf Launchpad is seriously priced at US$380. Used together with your laptop, this USB golf simulator hooks into the bundled Tiger Woods PGA Tour from EA Sports, letting golfers play on some of the world's best courses with their own clubs. There's even a swing analyzer, and the tethered ball is real enough to withstand the violent impact of clubheads. Once you progress past annoying your colleagues with shouting "fore" from your cubicle, you can remove the tethered ball on the Launchpad and tee off to the range to sharpen your game. Unfortunately, where the Launchpad goes, your laptop goes, too. Grin and bear if your notebook weighs as much as that golf bag.

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Via Uncrate

Price: US$381.50
Availability: More info at firebox.com
Device: Golf game
Basic specs: Golf Launchpad unit with 2.4m USB cable, netting and support struts, tethered real golf ball on precision pivot, tethered tee, custom developed turf (spare turf included), free EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf Windows Edition, clubs or drivers should have a reflective surface to work with the Launchpad, plug-and-play

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LA1313 says...
The actual retail price for this product is 199 dollars for the PlayStation 2 model and 249 dollars for the Mac/PC model.

Nov 07, 2006 22:45