Self-destructing Golf Balls

Once or twice in my life, I have had the misfortune of teeing off so badly in golf that I wished the ball never made it back to the ground. Most of these instances involved a collision with either a house, a car, or another golfer.

The interesting thing about bad shots in any game (except perhaps skeet shooting and the like) is that time appears to slow down, allowing your stomach to take its sweet time in dropping to the level of your feet. Rather than spending this subjective eternity standing there feeling dumb, why not do something about it and play an active role in preventing a disaster?

The golf ball is filled with a very small quantity of impact-stable explosive, able to be triggered only by remote-control and only when the ball detects that it is in flight. (This will hopefully safeguard against practical jokers blowing each others' bollocks off by slipping one of these balls into another player's pocket, then detonating). Thus, a potentially dangerous wayward ball can be destroyed mid-flight, much like a cruise missile can be aborted before hitting its target.

As long as golfers' reflexes are fast enough, this device may save potentially embarrasing encounters between golf balls and, for example, the clubhouse windows, the boss's car, the boss's wife, a glass factory....