This is the Q-Link pendant. (RRP$199)
What does it do? How does it work? I'm not going to bore you with the details that can be easily found on the
Q-Link website.
I'll tell you what it does, though.... it stops you in your tracks when you are doing your 'nana. Or chucking a wobbly. Or throwing a tantrum, spitting the dummy. You get the idea.
For those of you scratching your head, go to
Australian Slang for the translation.
I'll give you an example. The test subject has been wearing the pendant for a couple of months. The story begins at Elsternwick Golf Course - my partner was having a good round. A great round, in fact.
Around the 17th hole (also known as the 8th!) my partner stood at the tee, surveying the green. Three teenaged guys muddled about on the green, taking their time, goofing around, playing with the flag. I could sense my partner was getting annoyed.
Or maybe it was the stream of muttered expletives I kept hearing.
On top of this, another fellow from the hole behind us smacked the ball right onto our tee off point, narrowly missing my partner's head.
He was so caught up in getting annoyed at the three guys on the green that he missed this event. He did not however miss the guy from the hole behind us running up in front of him and striking the ball across his line of sight.
Tired of waiting for the 3 guys on the green, he teed off.
The ball did a majestically horrible boomerang to the right, ending up in the reeds.
Reeds that were in the water. A lost ball.
He got out another ball, teed off and to my amazement, perfectly replicated the one-in-a-million horrible shot. Another lost ball in the reeds.
The next new ball swooped to the right, and landed about 5 metres away, near the reeds. He said calmly "I'll take that one" and started off towards the ball.
He set up the shot and hit the ball. It swerved towards the water like a heat seeking missile, then incredibly hit a pile of rocks in the water, and bounced back to very near its original starting point.
I stared, open mouthed as I watched for what he would do next. After hooking the ball (or was it slicing? I don't know) the ball came to rest behind a very large bunch of reeds. You could barely see over them...
Faced with this situation, I know many people who would have broken a club, jumped in the water, climbed a tree or stormed off the golf course, vowing never to play this f$%@ing game again.
My partner, on the other hand suddenly stopped getting annoyed. He took a deep breath and hit a majestic towering shot OVER the reeds, UP the hill and landing to rest at the lip of the green.
One more chip and a close putt and the ball was in.
In this round, he broke 100 for the first time.
The Q-Link claims to shave at least 3 shots off your score.
Since wearing the Q-Link, my partner has dropped 9 shots. And counting.....
At the 19th hole (the pub) he told me the Q-Link definitely did something. It didn't stop him getting annoyed, but it did make him quickly recover to take control of the game again.
Note: In scoring the penalty shots, we used the Playstation 2 Tiger Woods scoring system.
