TOURNAMENT TWILIGHT TRACER
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Tournament Twilight Tracer (light-up golf balls), retail $13.95 (www.twilighttracer.com...)
Manufactured by Sun Products (www.sunproductsusa.com)
Last updated 04-30-10




The Tournament Twilight Tracer are golf balls specifically intended to be used any time in the game of golf; although they look a lot like ordinary golf balls, the Tournament Twilight Tracers light up & blink when hit off the tee, from fairway, or from the bunker (sand trap). They can also be used for putting; much like the Putt Tracers.

They flash red or reddish-orange - the ball with a "1" printed on it flashes red; the ball with a "3" printed on it flashes reddish-orange. They are advertised to flash for five minutes after being hit; when I timed it, the flashing actually lasted for 5 minutes 1 second - that's pretty darn close if you ask me.

Because they flash, they are specifically intended to be used after sunset when it might be a bit too dark to play golf with your regular golf balls.


SIZE



To use the Tournament Twilight Tracer, simply replace the golf ball you were using before. Just place it on the tee (two wooden tees are included in the single-ball pack) and play it just like you would play an ordinary golf ball. Whether you hit it off the tee, the fairway, out of the bunker, or on the putting green, it will behave just like an ordinary golf ball except this one flashes - allowing you to play after sunset.

This flashing lasts for exactly 301 seconds (5 minutes 1 second) and then it automatically turns itself off. Yes, I timed this on a clock with a second hand on it.
This gives you plenty of time to go up the fairway and hit it a second time...and a third...trudge up the fairway and hit it a fourth...and a fifth...and a sixth...and...a...SEVENTH...damn just went from double eagle to double bogey!!! (this assumes a par 5 hole of course)



The Tournament Twilight Tracer is a disposable product, therefore, I do not have to tell you which part to remove, gently place on the tee, stomp on with spiked golf shoes, kick into the bunker (sand trap) (Darn it!!! There goes the tee as well!!!), and then rather emphatically tell you not to.

Battery life is advertised as 40 hours (flashing time).



These are light-up golf balls intended for playing the game of golf, not flashlights meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown them in the toliet tank, bash them against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my housemate's citty kats go to the litterbox on them, run over them with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on them, use a large claw hammer in order to smash them open to check them for candiosity, fire them from the cannoņata, drop them down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send them to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on these cute & loveable little golf balls that flashlights might have to have performed on them. So this section of the web page about the Tournament Twilight Tracer flashing golf balls will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

Actually, a water submersion test isn't a bad idea here because a golfer could hit the ball into one of the water hazards found on most golf courses...


And here's the only version of the water hazard test I could perform...after being submerged in approximately 11" of water in the cistern (toliet tank) at 77°F (25°C), no leakage or malfunctions were detected.

***VERY IMPORTANT!!!***
This is the clean part of the water closet - the water here is actually potable (drinkable) if you do not use an "in tank" bowl cleaner, so the Tournament Twilight Tracer did not have to be disinfected or even disposed of after this test.

Although the batteries cannot be changed, there is no real reason to dispose of the Tournament Twilight Tracer when the batteries poop out; just use them during the daylight hours (as you would use normal golf balls) when this occurs. They are colored white, so they can easily replace your regular ball and nobody but you will ever know that they flashed.

This look a lot like the web page I made for the Putt Tracers?
Thought you'd say so.
That's because I used it as a template for this web page.

The primary difference between these balls and the Putt Tracers are that these balls use three layers of surlyn, not just two.
According to my contact at Sun Products, "The over all quality is substantially better on the tourny ball."

The Tournament Twilight Tracer lighted golf balls can be struck quite sharply with a driver (a golf club used for hitting your ball of the tee); whereas the Putt Tracers are only designed to be struck rather softly with a putter (a golf club meant exclusively on the putting green to tap the ball into the cup (hole)).

The Tournament Twilight Tracer can be stored in its included pouch; this helps keep the ball clean between uses.



Photograph of the Tournament Twilight Tracer balls, illuminated, of course.
The red-orange one is on the left; the red one is on the right.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in the red Tournament Twilight Tracer.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in the red-orange Tournament Twilight Tracer.


Spectrographic analysis
A second spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in the Tournament Twilight Tracer marked "1".


Spectrographic analysis
Second spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in the Tournament Twilight Tracer marked "3".

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.


WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the product being used.
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My artificial cup ("hole") has already been packed away for a
move to occur on 08-01-08, so it is not shown in this clip.

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This is with the artificial cup.

I cannot provide either one in other formats, so please do not ask.

Most of the room illumination was off so that the Tournament Twilight Tracer would be more visible.




This is a video on YourTube showing the Tournament Twilight Tracer in action.
As you can see, I played rather miserably here. ;-)

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This is a second video on YourTube showing the Tournament Twilight Tracer in action -- after dark this time.
As you can see, I played rather miserably here. ;-)

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I know it really doesn't matter here, but I used a Tiger Shark putter (golf club) that I purchased in Seattle WA.
USA in late-2004 to play along with the pricing game "Hole in One or Two" on the TV game show The Price is Right.
I do not own or have access to any other golf clubs, which is why a putter was used here.


Here's the golf club I used.
In this photograph, a blue Putt Tracer ball can be seen near the club face.
This photograph is just to show the golf club I used, not the golf ball itself.








TEST NOTES:
Test unit was sent by C.G. of Sun Products on 06-30-08, and was received at 10:47am PDT on 07-07-08.

Product was made in Taiwan.
A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.


UPDATE: 04-29-09
I have decided to rate this product 4― Stars and place it in The Trophy Case on this website!!!
The only reason it did not receive a five star rating is because the batteries cannot be changed when they go down the tube.

They were rated so late "in the game" as it were because I simply forgot; while I was watching The Price is Right yesterday morning, they had the pricing game "Hole in One or Two" on (which the guy won too!!) and that made me think of these golf balls. This goes for the Putt Tracers golf balls too.


PROS:
Very unique product - nothing like it that I'm aware of!
Size and weight is that of a regulation golf ball


CONS:
Batteries cannot be changed


    MANUFACTURER: Sun Products
    PRODUCT TYPE: Light-up (flashing) golf balls for all parts of golf
    LAMP TYPE: LED (red or or red-orange)
    No. OF LAMPS: 2
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: "Impact-sensitive" on, automatic off
    CASE MATERIAL: Surlyn plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 1x 3 volt lithium (presumably coin cell)
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Yes
    SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to shallow depths at minimum (at least on the inside edge of the water hazard)
    SIZE: 5.28135" diameter
    WEIGHT: 1.530 oz.
    ACCESSORIES: Batteries, two wooden tees, drawstring storage bag
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated (probably guaranteed against DOA at minimum)

    PRODUCT RATING:

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