The biggest omission is putts per green IN REGULATION. It can take anywhere from 10-20 minutes to “fix” all the incorrect or inaccurate tags before a round can be “signed” or finalized.Īs cool as it is, Game is missing some valuable stats. I’ve found that I have to go through every shot of the round to make sure the clubs are correct, greens in regulation are correct, and so on.
Also, some tags appear in the wrong place due to the GPS inaccuracy. I find that many tags don’t make it and I have to spend time after the round entering them. I will be very critical of Game Golf here in the hopes that these are taken as constructive comments which will be addressed in future releases.įirst, the process is a little clunky. I’m most critical of golf products I like and use. The plots of each club/shot on the Google map is slick. From there the player can view all of the shots plotted on top of a Google map, see distances of each club, track stats, scores, and see some nice data on the round or total rounds. After the round, the device is connected to a computer where the data is downloaded and transferred to the Game Golf website. To record a shot the player taps the top of the grip to the Game Golf device which can be inside a pocket, or clamped to a belt or waistband. A small cap screws into the top of each club’s grip. Game Golf uses GPS positioning to track each shot on the course. My new favorite way to punch in my scores is via the Game Golf system. It takes a few minutes to punch in all the data and the system works well. The system crunches all the data and gives me a ton of statistics, including a USGA (or CONGU or EGA) handicap. In that system I manually punch in each hole’s score, if I hit the fairway and green in regulation, penalty strokes, and the number of putts. Since 2006 I’ve been tracking my scores and stats via my own PHP/web based application at The Golf Space. I’m trying to concentrate on my strategy and my next shot, not flipping through pages on my phone and messing around with windows, menus, inputting data, typing in my password, and worrying about my battery dying when I’m expecting to get a phone call from Publisher’s Clearing House (or the wife calling to tell me to pick up a pizza on the way home). I find golf score/stat tracking systems based on smartphones or tablets to be far too clunky and tedious to use on the course. I could review an app a day and it would take me months to cover them all.
If you only knew how many golf “apps” I get requested for review here.
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