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Donated by the athletics department and the Friends of Harvard Golf in fall 2005, the Full Swing Golf LS Golf 3 plunks top notch golf courses and practice facilities into cyberspace, with the help of a projection screen and a little patch of Astroturf. The simulator’s 688 sensors calculate the speed, size, and angle of every golf ball hit, in real time. Virtual duffers can customize their playing experience by adjusting wind speed, green hardness, sky type, and crowd volume...
...Sports, a collection of cartoonish tennis, baseball, bowling, golf and boxing scenarios, comes with the system. I had presumed that it was merely an elaborate demonstration of the Wii Remote, which responds to natural motions rather than arcane button combinations. I discovered quickly that it might be the greatest videogame ever made...
...Everyone sampled all five Wii Sports. Tennis is still my favorite, but my wife got into the more cerebral Golf, achieving victories on the Wii what she was unable to deliver during her high-school golf-team years. Bowling probably came in third place, though Baseball and Boxing found fans. By the end of the weekend, the little machine had hooked ten people of very different temperaments and interests. Only one among us, Chris, was a bonafide gaming guy, and his years of button mashing didn't give him an unnatural advantage over anyone else. Excited as I was about...
...year before Harvard at the University of St. Andrews, and I’ve been back every summer to caddy on the golf course. Last summer I shot a documentary about caddying. I shot about 32 hours; sometimes I was following caddies all day, caddying myself and filming, and I’m editing that into an hour-long film...
...federal complex is located only a couple of chip shots away from a combined golf course and housing development. While the two higher-security prisons there have walled yards, the entire campus is separated from the community by only a single barbed-wire cow fence. State representative Buffie McFadyen, a two-term Democrat whose district includes the prisons in Fremont County, has pressed members of Congress, to no avail, to appropriate funds to build a solid wall around the complex, along with a central guard tower to better protect the center from outside attack. The Bureau of Prisons has already...