Patent ID: 8882606

Claim:
A system for capturing and communicating golf swing data including at least one of ball-related golf swing data and club-related golf swing data, the system comprising: a ball data module incorporated in a golf ball, the ball data module having a ball data capture element for capturing the ball-related golf swing data from the golf ball and a ball data transmission element for transmitting the ball-related golf swing data; a club data module incorporated in a golf club, the club data module having a club data capture element for capturing the club-related golf swing data from the golf club; and a mobile computing auxiliary device integrated within the golf club, the mobile computing auxiliary device having an auxiliary receiving element for receiving both the ball-related golf swing data from the ball data module and the club-related golf swing data from the club data module, wherein the ball data transmission element is operable to transmit the ball-related golf swing data through a wireless communication mechanism, and wherein the ball data transmission element includes a radio-frequency identification tag.