CHIP’d made its PGA Show debut in Orlando with a week that included packed demonstrations, industry recognition, media attention and the 2026 Pinnacle Award.
The 2026 PGA Show represented an important moment for CHIP’d.
After years spent developing the technology behind a golf ball capable of measuring its own movement, CHIP’d arrived in Orlando ready to introduce the finished concept to the broader golf industry.
For three days, PGA Professionals, coaches, media, industry executives and golfers had the opportunity to see CHIP’d Golf and its patented IntelliCore™ technology firsthand.
The response exceeded our expectations.
Introducing CHIP’d Golf to the Industry
CHIP’d Golf was developed around a simple idea with an extraordinarily difficult engineering challenge behind it: what if the golf ball itself could measure what happens during a putt?
IntelliCore™ embeds sensing and wireless technology directly inside the ball, allowing CHIP’d Golf to capture performance data from the movement of the ball itself and communicate that information to the CHIP’d Golf mobile app.
At the PGA Show, attendees were able to see the technology in action and learn how CHIP’d measures putting performance including speed, launch, spin, skid, true roll, distance and putt outcome.
For CHIP’d, the Show provided something equally valuable: the opportunity to put years of engineering work in front of the people who teach, play and build businesses around the game.
Throughout the week, the CHIP’d booth attracted a steady stream of visitors interested in seeing how embedded technology could change the way putting performance is measured and understood.
One of the Busiest Booths Golf Digest Saw
CHIP’d also attracted the attention of some of golf’s leading media outlets.
Golf Digest included CHIP’d in its roundup of “The coolest stuff we saw at the 2026 PGA Merchandise Show,” highlighting the decade-long development journey behind the technology and describing CHIP’d as a smart golf ball capable of providing launch-monitor-style putting data.
Perhaps most meaningful to our team, Golf Digest noted that CHIP’d had “one of the busiest booths we witnessed” at the Show.
For a company making its PGA Show debut, seeing that level of interest from both attendees and the media was significant validation of the problem we had spent years working to solve.
READ THE FULL STORY: Golf Digest — The Coolest Stuff We Saw at the 2026 PGA Show
Named Among MyGolfSpy’s Best of PGA Show 2026
CHIP’d was also selected for MyGolfSpy’s Best of PGA Show 2026.
MyGolfSpy's annual list highlights products and technologies that stood out to its team while walking the floor of the Orange County Convention Center.
CHIP’d was recognized for its technology and potential as a new approach to putting practice and training.
The recognition placed CHIP’d alongside established global golf brands and emerging technologies from across the industry, providing another important signal that embedded ball data had captured attention beyond our own booth.
READ THE FULL STORY: MyGolfSpy — Best of PGA Show 2026
CHIP’d Receives the Pinnacle Award
The week concluded with another major milestone.
CHIP’d Golf received the Pinnacle Award as part of the Inventors Spotlight at the 2026 PGA Show.
Organized in partnership with the United Inventors Association, the Inventors Spotlight showcased nearly 50 inventions and emerging products during the Show. CHIP’d was selected for the Pinnacle Award, recognizing overall excellence and forward-thinking design.
The award was a fitting conclusion to a week that gave our team its first opportunity to demonstrate CHIP’d Golf at scale to the industry.
Read more about CHIP’d receiving the 2026 Pinnacle Award.
Ten Years in the Making
The attention CHIP’d received in Orlando did not happen overnight.
Golf Digest highlighted the approximately ten-year journey behind the technology — a period involving countless iterations, engineering challenges and lessons about what it takes to place electronics inside a golf ball.
The challenge has never simply been making electronics small enough to fit.
The technology has to capture useful data, communicate wirelessly and coexist with the physical characteristics expected from the sporting equipment around it.
CHIP’d co-founder and CTO Anil Agarwal perhaps summarized the moment best while speaking with Golf Digest at the Show:
“This is basically our iPhone 1. It’s just the beginning.”
That statement reflects how we view CHIP’d Golf internally.
The product demonstrated in Orlando represents the first commercial application of years of work developing embedded sensing technology for sports equipment. There is considerably more that we believe can be built from here.
More Than an Award
The Pinnacle Award was an incredible way to finish our first PGA Show, but the week meant much more to us than an award.
For years, we had been building CHIP’d largely behind the scenes, working through the engineering challenges and believing there was an opportunity to create something genuinely different. The PGA Show gave us the chance to put that work in front of the golf industry and see how people responded to it.
The interest throughout the week was something our team will never forget. PGA Professionals, coaches, media and people from across the industry spent time at our booth, watched the technology in action, asked questions and shared ideas about where they could see it going. To then receive recognition from Golf Digest, MyGolfSpy, the PGA Show and the United Inventors Association made the week even more meaningful.
For our team, it was validation that the industry is watching, that people are interested in what we're building, and that we're on the right track. After everything it took to get CHIP’d to that point, that recognition from the industry and golf professionals alike meant the world to us.
The 2026 PGA Show was a week we'll never forget. It was the moment we introduced CHIP’d to the golf industry, and the golf industry took notice.
