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Drones are coming to golf

A 2015 future call revisited in Jim Carroll's 2026 Golf Trends Scorecard.

Drones are coming to golf
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Publish Date2026-09-18
Updated Date2026-09-18
Outcomeearly

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Original year: 2015

2026 assessment

Scorecard verdict: Tracking, and personal

Tracking — and this one’s personal. Drones are now everywhere in golf-course mapping, marketing and broadcast; my own son’s company does exactly this work. Where I was early is the consumer fantasy: the auto-follow drone filming your weekend round hasn’t arrived, mostly thanks to regulation. Right about the industry, early on the individual.

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