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David Preston

Hi all Golfshakers, could anyone tell me which is the best App to get for the iPhone, I would like to try a gps system , but also want a scorecard system, so i can add my stats & scores whilst on course, preferably also email scores out afterwards?

I appreciate your input.

Cheers

Dave Preston

James Spence

Russell Middleton

Is this free, or do you have to pay for this app?

Russ

Wayne Santorini

Russell Middleton

How can I be a tight wad, I haven't even got an iphone!!!

Russ

Darren Millichip

freecaddie pro

free

scores can be inputted

stats - unsure

email - well thats just a standard e-mail isnt it?

Ray Lawlor

The answer to this question is undoubtedly "TeeToGreen Pro".

Map your local course in just 10 mins on their website. Keeps score and is very accurate with achoice of GoogleMaps or BingMaps.

Really a very good app and only £8. 

The best thing about, as I've said on these forums before, is the fact that you can map the course to siut your own game, i.e. map the distances to your best layup spots, your best drive, your average drive etc etc.

It also keeps you score AND your stats (greens/ fairways/ sand saves etc) AND e-mails the score card to you after the round.

Second to none.

Jay Colman

http://www.148apps.com/reviews/golfcard/

I've used this one for a year or so now and find it good and easy, simple enough to add detail stats as weel while on the go

David Homer

Wayne Santorini

so why ask if it was free or did you have to pay

besides your a Yorkshire man aren't you Russ????? better start saving your pennies for next years match

Matt Simmons

My brother uses one of those app things, I'll give him a shout and ask him what he uses,

its really good, calculates all the scores gross, nett, stableford and does your stats (fairways gir putts etc etc etc)

And its a modern twist on the old pencil and paper and its pretty good. I have no idea about the GPS range bit though as he doesnt have this app that I know of.

Russell Middleton

Wayne, yes I'm a Yorkshireman and I've started saving the penny!

That's right I've got the one penny safely put away until I find another one on my travels....      

Russ

Dave ley

If you find them like balls Russ it wont take you long

Gps ,rangefinders are over rated the problem is you don't realise until you stop using them I am so glad I found this out,(and I'm not alone) don't believe me try playing a couple of rounds without using one I guarentee you will suprise yourself.

It may just be me regressing I'm looking at a hickory shafted putter on the bay!

Christopher Watmore

John Flood

@ Dave

I used to use my iphone but I took the plunge yesterday and bought a Sky caddie and holder, to go with my new Freeway II, irons, putter, wedges!  LOL!!  I would recommend getting a dedicated bit of kit it works great and is simple to use.

I'll have to walk the opposite side of the fairway now (no jokes please!) as I'll look like the poor relation

Dave ley

Chris next time you play have a think what the yardage is before checking your gps I bet you wont be far wrong if at all, It's just you would never trust your judgement before.

I play with alot of low and + golfers who are now over shooting or coming up short on a regular basis something I never use to witness when they just looked and fired at the target. I also play with an x and trying to get back on the european tour player  he is the only person that I have witnessed banging out flags for kicks, The reason he does this is because he knows his exact yardages of  all his wedges from 120 in at every given position, how good he is  is obviously because he's very talented and he as all day every day to perfect this. So where does that leave the rest of us munters ??  still guessing even when we now the yardage.

I have used one fo 1 1/2 seasons and my hcp has gone up I would take a wager my hcp will be lower by the end of the season without it.

Don't get me wrong if you are happy using one I really don't have a problem, what I do object to is the claims that it will improve your golf and have yet to witness this with the majority of users.Another cynical ploy to empty your pockets of cash please don't listen to the hype that you can't live without one! I  bought into that crap myself. If it's a free app nothing to lose I suppose.

Christopher Watmore

Around my home course Dave where I have played hundreds of rounds I don't need the GPS, although days like yesterday where it was quite cold and the wind coming from an unusal direction would have made it easier for me. Several times I had no idea what yardage I was faced with or what club to begin selecting.

For me GPS comes in so useful on courses I find on my travels. Having the information handy to get a good picture of whats in front of you. For me using one I'm only interested in 2 figures - Yardage to Green Front and Yardage to Green Back. I don't try to search out flags. For me how far to the back of green is more ideal. I can take the club to get it there. If I flush the shot, I'm back of the green. If I don't quite flush it I'm going to be nearer the middle and possibly closer to the pin.

I think some people can try to get too cute with GPS or Rangefinders and thats why they then come up short or long.

When I stand on a tee or over a ball in the fairway, the GPS gives me the yardage immediately, I can then assess the wind conditions and lie and have my club selection. The GPS helps reduce my possible club selection from 14 down to about 3 clubs.

Andrew Guyton

As an avid user of the iPhone (and having developed a couple of iPhone golf apps myself), I'd get Golfshot GPS (£18)...and it is not one I developed (unfortunately!!). 

I also have Golf Card (£5), Golf Logix (free) and Golf GPS (free). Golfshot is consistently in the top 25 sport apps and the top golf app for a reason, and despite the high price (for an iPhone app). 

There are two main problems with allot of the other apps, having top map courses yourself, and the main on I found was the time it took to enter the stats.  This is the main problem and the reason I stopped using the others after a while....it was just easier to use a pencil for the stats and a rangefinder for distances. Golfshot is different though, it is quick to enter scores and stats, most courses are mapped and if they are not they do it for you very quickly. 

It also links to Golfplan (another app for about £5) which analyses your stats and tells you what o work on, with video tips and drills (by Paul Azinger)....although after speaking with my pro today, take the pitching technique with a grain of salt!! 

Murray Macpherson

I use mycaddie pro and I am really impressed with it. Its a free app and apparently allready has 30,00 courses mapped. Certainly all my local courses have been done.

I also just bought this piece of kit on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Electric-Golf-Trolley-iphone-Integration-Kit-/2805095
53368?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Golf_Trolleys&hash=item414fac1ad8

It took me 5 minutes to fit and having used it on my rounds today and yesterday, I am delghted with it. Best £50 I've spent for a long time.

Tom Floyd

Lee Ward

GOLFSHOT GPS is without a doubt the best app for the iphone..it is so easy to use, has over 30k courses and no mapping that you have to do, allows you to set your lay up irons so you know how far for a layup, shot distance tracker (in case you need to know if it REALLY did go 300 yards plus) plus, it also calculates your GIR and FIR plus sand saves and scrambles, along with puts...then also breaks these down over par 3, 4 and 5's... you can also switch from a percentage showing to a graphical showing.

This little gadget is knocking shots off my round every time I use it, and also gives me the info I need to see where to progress thru my practice.

For £18.00 what more do you want ?

(dont answer that bit, I know...the great caddie Fanny)

Norman Savigar

Darren Atkinson

Lsst i heard Iphone apps are illegal to use in a golf competition as they are not classified as a Golf GPS but a mobile which has weather apps etc on it ??

Lee Ward

then tell the guy who told you that to show his proof...let me guess, he is still stuck in a contract and can not upgrade his phone yet ?

roflmao

Darren Atkinson

Actually Lee the guy who told me was a junior member who was told by someone at the county coaching classes that they were illegal to use on a mobile not just an iphone ??

Darren Atkinson

Looking on the web I see some authorities have taken the view to ban mobiles based on this ruling and some have not :-)

http://gps.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=gps&cdn=gadgets&a
mp;tm=1050&gps=318_367_1419_719&f=10&su=p284.9.336.ip_p504.1.336.ip_
&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.usga.org/news/2009/November/USG
A-R-A-Joint-Statement-On-Electronic-Devices/

John Flood

I think your right Darren,

even if your not using the other apps on the phone doesn't matter as it has the 'ability'. So all phones that have the capability of letting you know the temperature or wind speed or anything else (club selection etc) aren't allowed unless I've read it wrong?

David Preston

This is like saying that professional golfers or amatuers for that matter cannot use caddies?  try telling that to Tiger, phil & the boys.

Understandably maybe if they give wind speed etc.

Weather well lets look is it raining ? is it hot or is it windy?

Iphone apps, gps devices are only a guideline to yardages they can give you an estimated club for distance but so can a caddy!

No need to ban them they just help a little, just like a human caddie!

John Flood

David,

I think it's about trying to limit it so no-one has an unfair advantage over anyone else.

I think Pro's are allowed to use GPs in practice rounds but not in live rounds.

I don't think it makes much difference to the average club player but amatuer level can go all the way from a 28 handicapper to +6.

Darren Ramowski

I've also read something and will see if I can dig out the info. 

Basically modern day mobile phones can provide functionality and software which will:

 - tell you wind speed, conditions etc

 - provide internet access to any info

 - use sensors to assist with telling gradients of greens etc

Thus are mini computers and not just GPS devices. Because it's almost impossible to tell if someone turns off all these features they are therefore technically disallowed in competitions

Tim Hawkins

Wayne Santorini

Tim Hawkins

Wayne Santorini

David Preston

I help to run a local golf society.  We play all around the midlands throughout the season.

Last seasn on many occasions the courses we played had no course planner, no map of course on the back of the card.

  Guys were hitting drivers, then found it was 150 down 150 across.  There was shall we say quite alot of moaning around.

Three out of eight courses had absolutley nothing to help you, some not even 150yard markers.

I love the game, but playing blind makes you realise these apps or rangefinders can at least give you half a chance, even if like my off of 18 I'm not a good golfer.

I bought golfshot about 2 months ago roughly.  I have used it on a few courses, to be fair it isn't always spot on.  But on the other hand it does give you an idea.  Golfshot even gives yardages to hazards etc.

I have read all the posts & it seems a very good subject.  I believe if there is something that helps, especially if the course in mind doesn't then why not!

My handicap has stayed the same, yes my natural estimation is reasonable, most of the time. Again with this little help I first assess from view, then a quick look at gps, Normally close between the two.

Golf is a mind game as much as a physical/ technical sport. Although I run my own succesful business I admit to not being the sharpest tool in the bag!

This ingenious little bit of kit gives me a little more confidence & belief in my own abilty & hopefully help my course management, eventually the confidence gained will help bring my handicap down.

   Confidence is everything at my level of golf!!

Stuart Reeve

Fearghal Kelly

Stewart Whittaker