What is the absolute worst golf gadget you've seen? Can include anything including training aids

hey frank how about that new "BalZee" or something like that... some kind of suede looking think that you clean your balls with... absolutely ridiculous...

A green reading tool which is about $5 at my local sports store. For looks, try taking one of those paddle ball sets you see at the beach during the summer (the clear ones with the annoying twang when you hit the ball). Take one of those and draw lines in black sharpie about 1" apart horizontally up the whole thing and then one line down the middle. May post pics later if I'm in a humorous mood.

I'll go with the bracelets. Phoney.

Don't knock it til you've tried it!

http://www.puttpalusa.com/

I happen to catch this while flipping channels. I left the TV on Conan while answering a call and there's Jon Lovitz putting sand on Conan's desk demonstrating this product. I thought it was some kind of joke, especially when Jon is pitching the website address too. I looked it up, and I guess it was serious.

Can you imagine the sh*t you would give someone in your foursome for whipping a purple brush out and cleaning the sand? Unless you are Japanese, then it's probably a big hit in gadget country. And nobody get all pissy over the Japanese comment. It's not racial at all, Japan is the land of rubber tees, rubber tees with springs, rubber tees with strings, and all kinds of other trinkets that slow down the game.

I'm not against anyone using the gadgets, but it is going to get a laugh because it is funny.

Great topic. So many things come to mind.

1. Brush Tees
2. Anything Q-link
3. Greg Norman's "The Secret"
4. The Power Pod Driver
5. Suction cups that go on the grip of your putter so you don't have to bend over to pick the ball out of the hole
6. Any driver whose infomercial promises to add 30 yards to your drive.

This thing:


Unless you've got a broken back (in which case hitting golf balls is probalby the last thing you'd be doing) you're just plain lazy.

I am not lazy....it is hard work carrying this thing to each tee on the course!

1. Brush Tees - They work!
2. Anything Q-link - They work!
3. Greg Norman's "The Secret" - It works!
4. The Power Pod Driver - Haven't tried one but it should work!
5. Suction cups that go on the grip of your putter so you don't have to bend over to pick the ball out of the hole - They work!
6. Any driver whose infomercial promises to add 30 yards to your drive. - They work! Yes, I now drive the ball 600 yards! It is the 200 yards coming back that are giving me fits.

Not sure what its called, but that add in GolfDigest that promises 400 yard drives. Also the Q-link, my brother had one, I tried it for a few rounds and it did nothing.

This was years ago and maybe a few of the older guys remember it or the company that sold it. Prior to today's informercials, there were just longer commercials they used to flash with the "CALL 1-800-222-KTEL". I can't believe I found it for sale on Ebay but here's what the seller has to say about it.



I was about thirteen years old and my father ordered this for me to do some back yard practicing. As soon as it arrived in the mail the two of us were in the yard setting it up. We followed the directions and hammered in the pegs to hold it down and I got my persimmon Macgregor Driver ready for some action. First hit on it and the whole contraption flew out of the ground twenty feet and hit the neighbors house with the loudest thud! The neighbors all ran out of their house and found my dad and I looking sheepish standing in the yard.

Here's the pic's of the K-Tel Golf King swing aid...

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I hit my Dad's car with that thing!
It's hard to forget, I couldn't sit down for a day.

http://www.mnglobal.com/

stumbled onto this one, and thought it would be perfect for this thread, even though it's not a training aid per se, but I can't believe that you have to order the instructional video seperate! Grrrrrrr

Reminds me of the Korean film "3-iron". The main character makes his own similar device with a rope and drilling a hole in a golf ball. He took it all over with him and practiced with a 3-iron. Worked great until it went through a windshield killing some chick.

The crotch hook-I don't care if its a gag gift it's just plain wrong.

Works great but you only get two bad shots

I was a SERIOUS Baseball player, Tennis player, and now Golfer. Something which I have observed all of my life as relates to Athletics is: The higher caliber the player, the less "JUNK" he carries around!

I think that the brush tee commercials are rediculous, never had much incentive to try one, but the commercials aren't much.

I saw that! It was hilarious. Conan rocks. Lucy Liu was looking HOT too!

One of the most pointless things I have seen someone using is a digital scorecard. What, are pencils not good enough now!!??!!??!!

OK guys (and especially girls...) I reckon I have the winner right here.

I won't go into detail - you'll just have to look for yourselves. Not specifically for golf, but there is actually an article (ok, a humorous article, but still...) about this in the April edition of Australian Golf Digest.

http://www.whizbiz.com.au/

the worst I remember was some device that stuck onto the back of your golf cart (in the little basket), and it had a ball washer, storage for tees, a little scrub brush, and other stupid knick-knacks attached to it. I recall it was listed MSRP for $60 or so. what a piece of ####.

I still remember that informercial/advertisement for those weird looking POS Alien wedges that were out several years ago.

I think their spokesman was Jerry Pate, hitting a ball off a big rock in the middle of a lake and then jumping in the water when he hit it on the green.

Funny, but strange ad. I think the only step left for Pate after sinking that low would be celebrity boxing.

i can not belive no body has brought up radar golf...the golf ball with the radar in it so you can find it any were......