When is someone going to invent mass production cheap quality RFID for golf balls?

[nevets88]

Doesn't the technology for inserting a radio into any ball cheaply exist yet?

[bunkerputt]

Do you mean post-production, or during the production process?  Any change in engineering has a cost that varies throughout the production time line.  Are you asking whether it exists, or when it is going to be cheap?  Check out www.topgolf.com for the answer to the first.  The second question can't really be answered succinctly as it depends on engineering advances, world markets including commodities prices, etc.

[canadianpro]

That will happen when the oil companies allow a car to be produced that runs on water or air. The golf ball companies want you to lose the ball...there has been a ball produced that emitted some type of signal but can't recall the name...I think they went out of business

[nevets88]

Originally Posted by canadianpro

That will happen when the oil companies allow a car to be produced that runs on water or air. The golf ball companies want you to lose the ball...there has been a ball produced that emitted some type of signal but can't recall the name...I think they went out of business

Slap myself on the forehead, good point. I forgot about that. Amazing that I forgot about my cynicism when thinking about this. Yeah, makes sense. Sure would speed up play though.

I'm going to rathole and hijack my own thread.

How much time do you think the average round would be shaved by if people could always find their ball using some sort of electronic locator. It would be close to the time finding a ball you could see, plus say an average of 15 seconds using the tracker. I would guess 15 minutes a round. Average.

[x129]

Your delusional if you think the reasons that cars don't run on air or water is a result of the oil companies actions instead of the laws of thermodynamics. If GM (or any other car company) could product a product that would enable them to crush their competition, they would do that.  Heck if exxon had a motor that ran on water, they would release it since they could make orders of magnitude more money than they do right now by pumping dino juice.

There are several golf ball RFID systems out there. No one wants to pay the 200 bucks for them or hit 8 dollar golf balls. Even fewer people want to play an illegal ball (i.e. balls with radio transmitters are nonconforming) even though they are not in a competition.

Originally Posted by canadianpro

That will happen when the oil companies allow a car to be produced that runs on water or air. The golf ball companies want you to lose the ball...there has been a ball produced that emitted some type of signal but can't recall the name...I think they went out of business

[canadianpro]

Not delusional...just used the terms as a figure of speech...just making conversation...by the way have you seen my Titleist "3"?

[Kobey]

Just imagine the confusion on a busy day as a bunch of hackers are driving all over the course following signals because they all have their balls set to the same channel.

[newtogolf]

Hopefully they use Smart RFID so regardless of channel each ball would have a unique id.

Originally Posted by Kobey

Just imagine the confusion on a busy day as a bunch of hackers are driving all over the course following signals because they all have their balls set to the same channel.

[WWBDD]

Golf balls?

I want one for my tv remote.

[canadianpro]

Will it work if my wedge had one...................................at the bottom of the pond?