If you're into golf, then this is going to blow you away. With your own clubs, at home, in the office, wherever, you can now tee off at Sawgrass, Pebble Beach or any course of your choice, compete against the best players in the world, and play with your own clubs! Yup, unbelievable as it may seem, this remarkable gizmo lets you play ultra-realistic golf at home. No more golfing widows or widowers, no more wishing you could play on the world's great courses, but you don't have the time or the money. Simply grab your clubs, plug this into your PC or laptop and play against the professionals. It has a superb Swing Analyser allowing you to study and modify your technique with whichever club you like, and comes bundled with the EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf game. This is no naff computer game, the Golf Launchpad's tethered ball, which is actually a real golf ball, has been designed specifically to reproduce the impact physics of a stand alone ball to perfection. The result is the exact feel and sound of hitting a golf ball out on the course, whether you're driving off the tee, pitching from the fairway or putting on the greens. There's even a tethered tee included! You can even remove the tethered ball on the Golf Launchpad and take to the range (with your laptop) to use as a sophisticated swing analyser to sharpen your game. How does it work? 1. Your PC recognises the Golf Launchpad just like it would a USB mouse or joystick. Simply plug it into your PC and you're ready to play major golf courses. 2. Golf Launchpad is truly 'plug and play'. There are NO drivers to install or configurations to change on your PC. It works with any computer with a USB interface running Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP. The Physics: Club head ball collision is a complex phenomenon - take a driver travelling at 120mph, for instance. The collision with the golf ball lasts for less than one-half of a millisecond (1/2000 s) during which forces of up to a ton are imparted by the club-face to the ball. Golf Launchpad deals with all of these aspects and much, much more... The Computation: Swing, and the optical sensors embedded deep under the turf tracks the path of your club over the sensor grid, measuring vast quantities of data from your club such as: angle, velocity, path and so forth. A digital signal processing algorithms called a.li.an maps this data in real-time into dynamical information that is then further processed so that the game's output is unmatched accuracy. The a.li.an algorithm has been engineered and robot tested for accuracy. The result of all this baffling technology is that you can play a full game of golf, in real time, with your own clubs, on some of the world's best courses, against the professionals, and all without leaving the comfort of your own home awesome.