Digital Golf Club

英国プログレッシブ・ロックグループ ”yes” とウェス・モンゴメリーをこよなく愛する。IT企業でのサラリーマン生活を長年真面目に勤め上げた後、多方面での経験をもとに体験談的エッセイや小説を執筆。著書に「空想… 棚の紹介を読む

In the late 1980s, a tragic accident at a rural golf course in Yamanashi, Japan, left behind more than grief—it sparked the need for a new kind of innovation. Thirty years later, the victim’s nephew, now a golf‑course manager, begins developing a system that can track every ball struck on the course.
What emerges is the “Digital Golf Club,” a technology born from grief, shaped through many hard‑won challenges, and driven by a determination to change the sport for the better. As the system spreads across Japan, foreign IT companies take notice, launching Digital Golf Championships that reveal both the promise and the limits of this new way of playing.
Yet the rise of digital golf raises a question: can data and machines truly coexist with the nature‑bound spirit that have defined the game for generations?
This novel follows the life of the Digital Golf Club itself—its beginnings, its struggles, its breakthroughs, and its reckoning—as it stands between two worlds: the precision of technology and the enduring beauty of analog play. A requiem for the 48 million golfers who gather around a small white ball.