Toward the middle of 2014, it was tennis racquet giant Babolat who announced that they would be integrating tech in their racquets in order to be able to track and record shot measurements to improve training and coaching. With one of Babolat’s men behind the scenes boldly claiming last year that it would be used at a Grand Slam before the end of 2014, that claim didn’t quite materialise but it is getting closer.

Now we’re seeing golf follow that all too familiar route of integrating technology in it’s clubs. It is something that is well overdue considering tennis has been able to create prototypes and integrate technology in their racquets, equipment that is far more dynamic and which experiences far harsher conditions than golf clubs.

Since technology exposed a huge gap in the market for gadgets and other devices that could measure the previously ‘unmeasurable’, this kind of equipment has emerged as a real game changer – particularly with tech start up companies looking to sink their teeth into the sport tech industry.

Golf is set to be the next sport completely changed by the advent of technology with ClubHub, the brain child of tech startup Kinetec. The crux of the tech?

Sensors that attach to golf clubs that measure data from the swing that can then be viewed on your smart device or sent to your cloud, to be then retrieved at a later time on your laptop after you’ve finished your round.

Currently, there is a Kickstarter campaign for this tech, however once that campaign is finished, it will be likely released on the markets. Purchasers will get 14 sensors (which works out as one per club in a set) with each sensor simply screwing into the end of each iron, wood, or putter. These sensors analyse the swing as well as tracks the shot, something that the President of ClubHub John Melican said has never been done by a single technology before.

ClubHub also uses GPS technology to allow the purchaser to geo-map holes and determine distances to different parts of the green for over thirty thousand courses worldwide – a piece of technology that is very impressive in itself.