Maine youths invent golf gizmo

LEWISTON – It tracks your golf scores and computes your handicap. It shows a satellite image of your next hole. It even spits out suggestions on what club to use.

About the only thing that a new gizmo dreamed up by a young Mainer doesn’t do is carry your clubs.

Twenty-five-year-old Kurtis Petersons literally got the idea in a dream last December in which his cell phone told him how far he was from the hole. The next day the 2001 Poland Regional High School graduate pursued the idea online.

Now, Petersons and business partner James Daniels have won two development grants for their GPS-guided gizmo, mCaddie. Petersons says the device, still in testing stages, is “almost like an ongoing PGA tour for hackers.”