A high-stakes game of golf sim

Juniper Foo | Mar 19, 2008

The popular boys' game of golf has, not surprising, finally gone online along the lines of Microsoft Live and Sony's PlayStation Live. Which is great news for golf-mad players and Tiger Woods fanboys. All you need is to gut out a room measuring at least 13ft wide by 20ft long, with a ceiling 10.5ft high, and chump change of about US$55,000.

For that kind of green, Full Swing Golf's simulator will turn your bunker into a setting for 54 of the world's best courses, with options ranging from the Old Course at St. Andrews to Pebble Beach, all in photo-realistic 3D modelling. And as you tee off with your own clubs, two 360-degree infrared curtains record the flight, speed and direction of your golf ball to simulate flight and the final landing place.

But the highlight has to be the online mode which lets you compete in online tournaments if these are available, or play over the Web against your buddies. The ultimate golf sim? Well, if you can afford a rich man's game of golf, you can certainly afford this. The rest of you can just be spectators. Tough.

Via Ballerhouse

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