The original call
Original year: 2010 & 2015
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Right
Right — with one honest asterisk I’ll own. Connected clubs, GPS watches and shot-tracking systems all arrived and are genuinely good. But as I admitted on my own blog, mass adoption came slower than the hype promised, riding the classic Gartner hype-cycle curve. The technology landed; the universal takeup is still catching up.