Kevin Markham chats with Noel Cronin, one of Irish golf’s great gentlemen.

It’s an Aladdin’s cave for golf nuts. Heaven for hackers. Valhalla for garage golfers and other madcap inventors believing they’ve come up with the game’s greatest gadget.

WITH the PGA Tour’s 2007 season slowly gathering steam, it will soon be time to play the numbers game as millions of dollars start flooding into the bank accounts of the world’s best players.