X zone Screen Golf

Screen golf is fantastic. You use real clubs and balls, but instead of aiming for a real hole, you aim for a picture projected onto a screen. A sensor measures the speed and direction of your club face as it hits the ball. The computer then calculates where it would have gone, had it not slammed into the soft but tough screen ten yards in front of you. The screen shows your ball flying into the air and then landing gracefully next to the cup. (I said “your ball”. Mine tended to fall into those horrible six-foot-deep pot bunkers for which St Andrews is justly reviled.) After every shot, you can watch a film of your swing. (I should keep my head still.)