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I wonder what Bobby Jones or Walter Hagen would think about all of this fancy-pants technology in the 21st century. Back in the day, all you needed was a bag of wooden-shafted clubs, a couple of gutta perchas and you were ready to go. Now, what with swing coaches, head doctors, and workout regimens, the PGA Tour is just as much about being in shape -- both mentally and physically -- as it is about actually playing golf.

During the third round of Mercedes-Benz Championship, The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman commented that Daniel Chopra, who was near the top of the leaderboard at the time, used PlayStation to get familiar with the Kapalua Resort course. PlayStation. And more amazing than a grown man using a video game to familiarize himself with the course layout, is that Chopra reported that the PlayStation rendering was actually pretty accurate.

It's kind of like flight simulators for golfers. I have no idea if the breaks of the green, or the uneven lies in the fairway are accuratly represented, but you'd have to imagine that in the not-too-distant future (if it isn't already), such things will be part of the being-a-tour-pro experience. Weird.