![]() Some even allow you to take pictures and make notes of holes. There are legions of scorecard and record-keeping apps to dissect your round every which way, allowing areas for improvement to easily be identified. Many do these days to enhance the golfer experience. And if you’re planning a golf trip, search beforehand to see if your upcoming resort course has its own app. If you’re a golfer who likes to travel and play new courses, Caddio will surely save you a few strokes in your round. Golfers share playing tips and inside knowledge of their home courses so that you always know when a green on a new hole is presenting a false front, or the putting surface falls away from that shelf you see from the fairway. Most rangefinder apps you can also program to suggest club selections-something that may be handy for the indecisive player.Ĭaddio is a crowdsourcing app that supposedly performs as your own personal caddie on the smartphone. Golfshot is another type of GPS rangefinder that gives golfers flyover looks at over 40,000 courses and half a million golf holes, and you can upgrade with in-app features to get distances to hazards at your fingertips. It currently has around 4 million total downloads. GolfLogix is a very popular GPS golf app that provides GPS distances, video flyovers of holes, a digital yardage book, handicap tracking and more. ![]() ![]() There are several types of apps that can provide usable information during the round, and for analysis in the 19th hole. Some of these apps can be pricey while many others can be downloaded – in their most basic iteration – for free. With the prevalence of handheld technology (it’s a rare to find anyone within a mile radius who doesn’t have a smartphone… at least under the age of 50), there are a bevy of apps to choose from. You wonder that if Hogan still played today, whether or not his smartphone would be loaded with golfing apps to insure that he had every tool at his disposal to shoot the best possible round. The next day the hole was measured and found to in fact be 148 yards. One time he quibbled with the yardage listed on the scorecard. He just didn’t want to surrender an advantage he apparently had on the course, since he seemed to possess a supernatural depth perception. In those days, players figured how far the yardage was to the back of the green and then picked one club less to hit the approach to the pin. They say that Ben Hogan considered 150-yard stakes and yardages marked on sprinkler heads to be an affront to the integrity of the game.
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