Microchip GPS tracked golf ball (impossible to lose)
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Can you ask the company if they can have a GPS to find your golf swing when you lose it ! I have a habit of losing my swing after 9 holes. 😂😭🤦♀️
Rick ur the man
Please cut this ball in half lol
Shockingly, there is actually a provision in the USGA Equipment Rules specifying about microchips and other tracking equipment inside of a golf ball. It's allowed. My worry would be total weight, but the chip itself? No problem.
@@flexgt1641 he did….
Now I'll know exactly where in the pond I've hit my ball.
hahha
Well said, sir.
Lol! I think that’s what ball manufacturers are counting on!!
🤣🤣
😂
“Theoretically you shouldn’t lose it” Rick obviously hasn’t seen how my ball is magnetically attracted to any source of water on the course at all time
I was thinking the same thing XD
But you know, if you go hiking you better take one club and golf ball with you, if you get lost, you have no worries because you will always find water..😉
When this tech gets better in the future you’ll be able to keep track of all your stats on an app - ball flight, distance, speed, etc for every shot. It could even keep score for you
That would be amazing but i'll be old to care at that point :(
This is precisely what I have been talking about for decades. There must be serious technical obstacles for this to have taken so long to have come to market. My surprise is how poor the ball is.
Big Z - Rick collaboration? :o peace
I don’t know, with a golf ball, it’s just not feasible to put technology that’s supposed to en accurate when it’s constantly getting hit and compressed. That’s why this Bball had to be basically a rock, to prevent ball compression
It is promising tech
Company: “you’ll never lose these balls”
-makes golf ball that blends into the grass-
Fr man, newer companies like this need to realize standard white is the best route. I bought Vice’s golden golf balls when they first came out just for the hell of it when I had a scramble tournament to play in. Those things are near impossible to find if you don’t hit it in the fairway.
@@jpstpeter5516 I had a buddy give me a sleeve of the gold Vice balls and I'd never take them to the course. They're perfect for the simulator or putting green though! Especially this time of year with the sun getting lower, and leaves on the ground, it's damn near impossible to find even a white or yellow ball. But I play the white Vice Pro Plus and love them! Just gonna stick to the regular white ones is all.
Thomas K agreed. Vice is a solid ball and I like the idea, bummer it didn’t work out with the on course scenario. I thought they looked pretty cool lol
We've all wished we had technology like this many times and it's only a matter of time before it gets better. Kudos to BBall for being the first to actually produce it. Within a few years it may well be the norm. I'm proper fed up of losing a ball in the rough just off the fairway, especially when you can see it land!
Exactly!!! I’ve lost them and couldn’t figure out why cause I saw it land!!!!!😎💪🏌️♂️🏌️♂️🏌️♂️
In winter conditions i have lost balls in the middle of the fairway. My buddies and i call these kinda' shots the 'tiger woods rule' cause if we were on tour 5,000 people would be pointing at our ball no matter where it lands. Because of this,fairway shots and just off the fairway shots that are obviously visible from the tee are considered a drop shot with no penalty.
Compression of the ball is the problem. They would be adding electronics into the molding of the core. Once you compress it when hitting a shot. You would smash the electronics inside
Will never happen. Mainstream brands make so much money on ball sales they won’t make a ball that people cannot lose
It’s gonna take a lot longer then a few years. There’s things that was invented in the last 10 15 years that have had improvements that’s still fuck up.
I think it would be very impressive if they made a club that could help me find my swing!
That is good 😂
Ba da boom
@@john6714 Tsss
I'm almost done developing my own ball tracking system. Finishing up rooting and diag for different platforms. It measures impact, speed, distance, angle and depth.
Best part is, use any ball you want. This is modification of club innards and club face rear post.
Excited! Been 5 yrs in making. Lotta programming and material testing to ensure the top quality feel along with manufacturing cost for any company to use. If all works out ill send you two of the testing clubs. Driver and 7. I modified Titleist ap2s and can play at night with them.
Rick: “OH THAT SOUNDED AWFUL”
Also Rick: Plays a Ping Driver that sounds like a tin bucket
I play a ProV1X and can confirm I didnt go G425LST because the sound made me cringe every single time. It's also bad with the fairways but not quite as bad.
Yeah, it's easily the worst sounding of the best drivers. I love the dead crack from my Callaway, loved the slightly more metallic sound of the Mizuno it replaced. I'd give up 10 yards distance to not hear that sound lol
This is basically like the golf version of a concept car, the first of its kind. It feels like this’ll be honed and improved over the next decade. It may well eventually be the norm when it’s been perfected
Dont think titleist or any other company would be interested in it. They want u to lose balls
@@carlnoy8828 but the market drives production. What if everyone starts only buying golf balls like this?
@@FIFAplaya12 Nobody will buy them as long as a shot into the water means losing $35. You'd have to get way more competitive on the price, not to mention the feel. That part may even be more difficult to accomplish. Who knows, it might be borderline impossible. It's almost certainly going to need a lot of money poured into R&D, money that the big guys might have, but the little guys don't. They've got a tough road ahead of them.
@@FIFAplaya12 Like Shasta orange said would u pay $35 a ball just to drive it in the drink and lose a ball that can't be lost.
As someone who plays a lot of fall golf, this could be good with it hiding in those annoying leaves!
Patent pending?
Oh yes
Did you not watch the video? 😂
@@ohooper I did. I normally dont close my eyes and tell someone to go hide my ball.
No point considering it wont last an entire round and it sounds like shit.
Rick: "You cannot lose it!"
Water: "Am I a joke to you?"
If you haven't already, try one with an LED inside of it (for night golf). They're $117/dozen and come in a variety of colors. My brother-in-law has one and I bounced it on the concrete floor of his garage to get it to light up. They claim to be good for 500 hits before the battery embedded inside dies out.
I'm convinced the Garmin r10 review is never going to come and Rick is hoping we just forget about it after all the suspect initial feedback on the accuracy
Good to know that if Rick ever gets injured during one of his videos, Dr. Brian will have an injury breakdown in minutes!
Agreed 😑
I'm assuming they're having trouble getting the necessary chips, much like automakers are struggling with.
I have one. I didn't have it a month ago when the early reviews questioned the accuracy. But I have it now after several firmware updates. It's scarily accurate for such a cheap device. I put it head to head with a trackman and it spit out the same results about 95% of the time. One thing though, you HAVE to set it up properly for it to work. If it is off by a degree, you are going to get funky numbers so get out a measuring tape or a laser pointer.
@@kirby702 that's good to hear! I have one, too. Stopped using it a bit while all of the initial updates and concerns were around and will go back to it soon once things have steadied out a bit
I enjoy using mine at the range, all clubs are pretty close for distance. Just spin that is way off
Great , each time I walk past the pond on the 7th I will see 50 balls all flashing on my phone screen !!
Thanks for shelling out the oooooroos on these Rick. Saved me the heartache! maybe when an actual proper brand brings them out, they could be worthwhile.
Hope everyone is having a great day! Loving the podcast Rick!
Hey rick I’ve been wondering if you could do a video on how to hit hybrids because I’ve been struggling with them lately
yes please!
The tech is on the right track. Make the ball better and I could see it being a great idea. Solid for fall golf when the course is littered with leaves. I lost one of my custom tp5 the other day after I saw where it went but couldn't find it in leaves I was pissed because I Knew it was in play either in the fairway or slightly in the left rough.
And change the DANG COLOR! Whomever 'green lit' the light blue color deserves a papercut or two
Same happened to me twice the other week. Knew where it went but couldn't find it. Horribly frustrating.
@@aokworldwide_com6298 oh yes, the blue is impossible to find even if it's on the middle of the fairway.
@@haznick fall golf, where you retire all your nice balls for the season and play ones that aren't remotely nice.
My local course was built on a swamp. New owners don’t but $ back into it. Needless to say it’s wet. I was even par playing 9, crushed my drive on dog leg down left side of fairway, never found the ball. Plugged somewhere in the fairway. My league has a loose rule if everyone agrees to where it is u can drop if it should have been found. I dropped roughly where I thought it should be, made “par.” Subconsciously I think I tried to miss the “birdie” because of the lost ball. It sucks it happened, if there was a camera or spotter it would have been found, now I feel ripped on my nice round because of this. It would be great for amateurs for stuff like this. Pros never lose balls no matter where they r. Crowds, spotters, Marshall’s and cameras always know where the ball is.
This technology would be really helpful for those times you lose your ball in areas you KNOW it landed! Those areas where the pros have thousands of people looking for their ball!
Thanks for repeating exactly what Rick said
@@robbragg5712 Nice to see even a golf channel contains toxicity.
What’s toxic about making a statement? You literally repeated what he said verbatim
For tracking what they need is something similar to how Apple's new airtag location tracking works. And when you get close it gives you and arrow with direction and distance. Wonder if a big brand would work with Apple down the line to implement it and use the apple OS
They should - if Apple worked say with tittilist I bet they could solve all the problems and both make some serious money as the majority of golf is played by us non pros
Apple is not known for partnering with other companies so seems unlikely, especially golf brands
@@Aleks123 well someone should rip them off then without getting sued hahah
@@JGEyeDoc titleist want u to lose balls, it wont happen.
Rfid tech could be used for this functionality.
I use it in my line of work for locating singular items in a retail facility of around 10,000 items.
It is highly accurate. Wouldn’t be just an app though, it would also need an RFID antenna to find it.
That's how Top Golf works, they have RFID chips embedded in their golf balls
Now I'll know exactly where in the water I shanked it.
Thanks Rick for the review.
I wonder what is the highest degree of pollution : lose standard balls as usual or lose these kind of balls (more components) in lakes, rivers and more ?
I’m actually exited for this I lose a golf ball nearly round sadly the price kinda kills it and plus preformance. Hopefully everything will develop from here. Keep it up Rick!
Try looking for Grade B balls online :)
Try and looking for balls in OB areas around 200 or so yards off every tee box, I usually find so many every game just by walking by since most people miss into the same areas, when you find one there'll usually be a handful more nearby
You could buy 3 dozen Bridgestone Tour B XS, have money left for a pint and have 36 rounds of golf with nice golf balls instead of that rock with a tracking chip.
you lose a golf ball nearly every round ?! brother I lose a golf ball nearly every hole
How do you not find other balls on a round? I usually score 10+ a round
We used some of the light up golfs balls on our channel and they are rock solid,great concept but unplayable, love the video guys ⛳️👍🏌️♀️🏌️♂️
You do come up with some great video's Rick. With the amount of water on formby hall I could loose all 3 in one round
You and me both!
I started golfing about a month ago after being plugged into a corporate tournament at 30 years old. I have fallen in love with the sport and love watching your videos. Once I fix my horrendous slice I’m coming for you Rick 😂
i could absolutely lose that.
@5:37 LOL, was shouting “It's Bluetooth!” at my screen for the first five minutes of the video 🤣
This could ruin my whole golf game, wtf now there will be no lost balls for me to find?
For someone with poor vision (left eye blindness) this is an answer to a prayer. Where can i grab a few of these?? I cant golf alone because I usually have someone track my golf ball- this is literally gold! Total game changer.
Hopefully this is the start of traceable balls, the technology develops, improves and the price drops.
But.. why would golf ball manufacturers manufacture a ball that effectively encourages their customers to buy less of their product?
They won't and have no interest sacrificing performance.
My $$$ idea is more a paint type cover that a phone app, or watch/range finder can find. Any ball. Or an app that can just find balls out there, somehow.
Titleist, Srixon, Callaway etc..loving you on this video.
This is great for the old people that were holding up 4 groups the other day. Kept walking past their balls and looking for 10 minutes just to drop. Got a couple nice pro v1's out of that at least.
Thanks Rick. You didn't waste times and money! You save our times and money.
"You can't lose it!" *Immediately hits it in the water.
RICK!!!!! Me and my brother in law love your vids! Keep up the Great content! I just got back into golf and your are pretty much my golf coach.😂 Thank you!
It’s the limitations of Bluetooth connectivity. Usually Bluetooth only has an average range of up to 10 meters or 30 ft, but some have more powerful chips that can extend further. If you had a satellite tracked ball like some of these course apps with the phone, then you’d be Able to track it 3 holes over. but my guess it’s made so you can find it when you know the approximate direction or landing zone it’s hit to. Still cool as hell
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Sync with Bluetooth and add an audible beep to the ball. When you're in range it beeps.
Better idea though is to spend 150 on lessons and just stop losing your ball lol
Lessons dont make leaves go away or soft ground that swallows balls or tall grass or,or,or,or...
@@jimmrockford9407 very true but I've yet to see a player lose a ball in the middle of the fairway. Don't get me wrong, like Rick I think these balls represent a great concept, however, I don't think they're ready yet for main steam play, nor do I think they are economically feasible at that price point.
@@bobbo857Do you have crows in Australia we do and they steal your balls from the fairway.
@@darrenslawther9075 we do but they are not big enough to lift a golf ball haha
@Bobbo857 last round of golf I played I lost two balls one was in the fareway the other in the rough, the fairway one was annoying because I’d saved it from out of bounds with a great shot then couldn’t find it in the middle of the fareway. It was frustrating because that was the first ball I’d lost in 40 holes of golf.
Just read a half arsed article on theses balls, thought to myself I wonder if Rick has a video on his channel. Didn’t let me down, only 3 days ago. Thanks Rick.
As someone who is visually impaired this kind of idea would be amazing as usually I would rely on other people to be able to play golf
Omg I am so happy you chose the ball test I suggested. I have to say it sounded horrible on the video as well. And if you can't even cut it in half that tells you how hard it is. Nice video.
It's like the old joke about the un loosable ball, one player says to the other where did you get that ball , he said if found it 😁👍. Keep em coming Rick
The sound of it is ow full Rick 🏌️♂️⛳👍
Great idea, poor execution. I can lose a bunch of golf balls for that kind of money anyway.
5:32 that hot iris camera shot was SWEET. Need to use that camera more often. Love the vid Rick!
An obvious advancement, when the big players start doing this and it becomes legal then I will get excited :)
Guy Charnock with that Arcteryx drip. 😂 You're obviously paying well Rick!
The amount of times I've lost a ball in a 10 foot radius shows that this is completely useless if it's says in range when your 20 feet away.
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I have another golf ball in mind for you to review and compare to the ProV1. They are claiming that not only it's as good as a ProV1, but possibly could outperform the ProV1. It's the OnCore VERO X1. I would love to see you review and compare them head-to-head!
Liked the new camera work. Great vid as always Rick 👌🏼
Try out the Oncore Elixer. It says that in addition to the GPS tracking it also give metrics such as spin rate and speed.
Great video Rick and love how honest you are with every review carnt wait for more videos 💥
Excellent idea. With a few tweeks to the technology, like having a bluetooth enabled gps and havinh the golf course also interact with ball in theory the ball can be tracked from impact.
Rick any course vlogs in the future, really enjoy that style of content from you and the lads.
I've always wondered why this hasn't already happened... This video answers the question, thanks Rick!
Not sure the big companies want this type of thing. They sell a lot of golf balls to us that we only hit once and they benefit from that. Great video.
I’d love to have a tracker that records your overhead ball path through a round via GPS…kind of like a jogtracker.
Then I can see how much of the zig-zags I had that day or fairly straight play.
I’m sure the technology will improve with these ( better cover, softer feel, better connectivity, and so on. 🤞🏽
When it says “in range” it should have an arrow pointing, like a compass.
Totally get the concept. Could this one day provide feedback like the GC quad does, eg. distance, spin, launch angle etc?? 🤔
Sounds like it neds a bit of advancement though
Is there a rangefinder that links with a phone app, then you can look at where the ball lands and the app marks it on the app for you to find?
The quality of this video is fire! 🔥
Great video Rick, to the point and honest about the product. Not too long also- which is good.
It's a good start to getting this tech going. When I look for my ball, I already know it's in range I just can't see it and it ends up counting as a stroke.
Rick: “good luck ball”
Me saying that to my ball on every shot 🤣
Rick, very entertaining video. Love it when you do this weird stuff. But for 30 pounds per ball (about CDN$50/ball for me in Ontario) I'll just get another dozen Srixons or Bridgestones. Was hoping to see if this ball can swim back to shore. Oh yes and they sound brutal. Keep the offbeat stuff coming. Cheers.
I wish I had done this video!!! Nicely done Rick and the team! I was thinking this needs a golf ball hunt...and then you did it!
Just use it off the tee or in dangerous shots, switch it out for everything else
Shocking 🤣
You crack me up Rick..'not going to pretend I can't find it' haha
another awesome video Rick thank you
Matt Fryer will not need that.... he can get a hole in one..... cheers Rick... another great video...
I had a few light up balls that actually hit well. They made the GPS ball hard to protect the tech. But my light ball was soft to hit. Actually found them in a bag of used balls. So they can be made better.
Really glad you test this stuff so we don't have to :/ good idea though, hopefully the tech can really improve!
How many of us have wondered about playing with golf balls that have a tracking device? The example isn't "it", but it's showing first steps toward the goal we've been waiting for! Rick, thanks very much for the investment you made :)
That visible join seam between the halves of the outer shell. It's like Frankenstein's monster! 😱
Loving your vibe in this video 👌🏻 by the way that ball sounds, an old top flite 2000 distance ball would seem nice and soft after that one 😬
I only play a few times a year, and I'm a higher handicap golfer ~25. I lose balls regularly in the woods and sometimes in the water. I've often thought this would be a cool concept. But, unless it floats and was able to be retrieved from the middle of a large water hazard, I'll still lose it. Also, bluetooth devices typically need to be recharged. How is that accomplished with this ball? As Rick says, it seems like a good start, and if a larger company could refine it, I might be interested some day. And maybe if I wear a wetsuit on the course, I could keep retrieving the ball!
Nice video I have an idea for a video take a cheap golf ball for begginers like a distance ball surlyn cover very little spin and have a pro golfer play it and see results with driver and chip or approach shots.
It’s not GPS tracking, it’s only a Bluetooth LE chip with a tiny battery. Couldn’t fit the necessary components for GPS into a golf ball, not yet at least. I personally doubt this is possible to incorporate in a tour level ball, but I’m sure the big brands could make a mid level ball that has this tech. Just not sure it would have a wide enough appeal with the technical limitations you showed in this video.
Great stuff as always Rick.
Need to work on a search algorithm. I remember a handheld radar where the ball had and internal reflector. It would be fun to try it out.
Interesting video! I was just having a discussion about traceable golf balls and was wondering how far we are from there….still got a ways to go apparently
You should try the top golf golf balls that use RFID and a powerful RFID handheld reader!
From what I seen on their ad before is that they state that it will only connect within a certain distance
Yeah, right. Blast that puppy into the middle of the lake and see what good that GPS does you. LOLLLLLLLL!
If you think about it, even the technology today differs from GPS to GPS. You can compare rangefinders to golf watches to phone apps and come up with different numbers depending of which you are talking about.
What a great attitude ricky mi boy does have.
Hey Rick, you should do one of these tests on the R&L glow in the dark golf balls.
After seeing this - agree! Not yet but future for sure it come!
I have special balls as well. They connect to water and hazards during flight and activate small little jet engines to fly to them
Its a great thing off the tee and maybe a 2nd shot with a fairway wood or hybrid. As amateurs and recreational golfers, theres nothing wrong replacing the ball with a normal ball to play after a tee shot. It'll help slicers and ducks alike especially if you hit your ball to a driving range. Don't hit with irons and maybe dont use for putting. But it's a good thing
Well, when I hit into Cazenovia Creek, which I do several times a year. At least I would know where in the creek it is. It’s still lost though.
Rick shiels love all your videos and is there any chance u can do one using a mat as we r using them already and would love some of your tips many thanks
That camera angle at 1.25 looked awesome. However the BBall sounded like a rock...need a WiFi chip in a ball,not btooth, but,great idea.👍
My father always told me to pay no attention to gimmicks. If you want to play the game invest the time to learn proper, solid fundamentals. He was particularly critical of drivers with adjustable heads. He had a scratch handicap.
Great review Rick! 👏
The tech has a ways to go.
Tldr: theoretical blahblahblah
The range problem has to be addressed first. Theoretically, if the course wanted to spend enough money they could put bluetooth signal extenders into the course spaced ever so perfect to give whole course coverage. They could then tie this into their on-board cart systems or offer a course app. Idk if it is possible to double the extenders to perform some form of triangulation? But that would help accuracy in finding the ball, probably to the foot.
The big names would have to re-engineer it to actually perform like a grade A golf ball should though. That sounded awful.
Do you think once they get it right it will record shots for scorecards in the future? GPS the hole and know how many times hit, out of bounds etc.....??