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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Tatsuro Tanigami’s Digital Golf Club, Japan’s late-1980s golf boom creates Hozan Country Club on a mountain once considered sacred. After a fatal accident involving a lost ball, the course is linked to a problem that follows golfers for decades. Years later, Tetsuo Kurihara, manager of Kurokawa Golf Club, develops d-Caddie, a digital system that can locate balls and guide players away from dangerous ground. The idea soon becomes HIMIKO, a caddie that learns each golfer and moves from course carts into smartphones. As virtual play begins bringing new players onto real courses, the sport changes around the people building its future. Tanigami follows that change into professional tournaments, where the promise of perfect information meets a game that still depends on the person holding the club.
Tatsuro Tanigami’s Digital Golf Club is brilliant technological fiction, and is so incredibly creative in both the premise and concept of the storyline. I know nothing about golf, but it didn't alter how great the read is at all. Tanigami's characters are wonderful, and I love Masahiko and Shiori. We first meet Masahiko as a complete beginner, then keep finding the couple again as the sport changes around them. Shiori has the pure talent of making the future of golf sound like a complaint over lunch, asking why a digital caddie cannot know her personally. Tanigami leans into this type of intelligent wit, which has its most hilarious moment when four senior businessmen deliberately miss easy putts because a talking flagstick will only say “OK” when the ball stops close enough, and suddenly grown men are competing for praise from a machine. Well-written and wholly immersive, this is for readers who love sport-tech fiction.
