GOLF TECH: Can This New Ball Actually Help You Sink Every Putt?

Anyone who’s ever played a round of golf in their life always wishes that they could have at least one putt back because they missed it ever so slightly. With this new technology that’s coming out, you’ll never have that regret again.

Car manufacturer Nissan announced this week that they have technology that allows every single putt you take to end up falling in the cup.

The ProPilot Golf Ball as it’s called, has the technology to find the hole, understand the perfect line that it needs to take to go in, and ensures that it follows that path to end up in the hole. There’s even a video out there of a young boy putting from 75 feet away at almost a 90-degree angle from the hole and ball still rolls in.

This is how Nissan describes the ball: “a hands-on driving assistant designed to help drivers during long highway trips and the stop and go traffic of your daily commute. … Today’s ProPILOT Assist system is the product of years of research and development that continues to progress as we transition towards advanced driver assistance systems, incorporating fully autonomous technology.”

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Now as you can tell from the quote and the fact that Nissan is making the ball that this isn’t technology that is meant to be used for golf. Golf balls are just a nice test subject for automated driving cars that have to go on their own routes like a ball putted on the green. So this is more likely just the first step for the automaker in developing autonomous driving cars.

Even if this was a golf design, there’s no way that this would be a legal ball to use on a real course. That virtually guarantees a strong round unless you’re just really bad at every other facet of the game. Plus, it kinda takes the fun out of the game if you know that every single putt is going to end up in the cup.

So while this is definitely a cool piece of technology, I wouldn’t expect to see a ball like this anywhere in the public anytime soon. But it will be really interesting to see if this technology helps create a stronger driving system for vehicles.