If you're a golfer, what would you say if there were inventions to make the game easier on your back and help you with your swing?

Well some college students, involved in a Syracuse University program called "Invent@SU," are trying to make both of those things available.

Back pain tends to impact older players, and the invention, "Replace," gets rid of the issue of constantly bending over at driving ranges to put your ball on the tee.

"Replace is a mechanism, non-electronic, that allows a player to re-tee a golf ball all with the push of a button or club," Maya Alva, a sophomore at SU said. 

The students created a much smaller version of their machine to be installed under the mats at driving ranges.

"You would push a button and the tee elevator would be lowered down under a gulley where the golf balls go into with the tee atop. A golf ball would roll in, which comes from a basket contraption, and when this comes back up, it comes up with a golf ball on top of the tee," Alva said. 

An electric version of this already exists, but the SU inventors say their version will cost a fraction of those units at about $500.

They also discovered an added benefit their machine would deliver.

"Having this system to re-tee a ball will help customers at the driving range get through their balls faster so they can have more people. There's less of a wait to have more people go through in a day," Austin Salmonds, a junior at SU, said.

The group has been in communication with golf courses and professionals for their invention.

Targeted toward beginners, another device would help golfers by tracking grip pressure, something important in the execution of a swing.

The device would be connected to an app and will give golfers different data than they get now.

"They'll [current apps] give you information on distance and how far you hit the ball, but they're not really giving you live feedback on what's going on," Barrett Lathrop, a senior at SU, said. 

The device is still in the prototype phase, but they say testing the device is going to be fun.

"We're going to have to go to the driving range and probably swing at a bunch of balls and seeing, 'are we actually tracking this data properly?" Lathrop said.

Alex Deyhim, a professor in the aerospace engineering department, is in charge of the "Invent@SU" program. He has one goal in mind for all of the groups.

"Hopefully, they're gonna become rich! Which has nothing wrong with that! I just tell them when you get rich, don't forget Syracuse University," Deyhim said.