Frequent golf vacationers want nothing but a better game each time
they visit a golf spot. And to achieve this goal, some vacationers turn to
various gadgets marketed to have the potential to improve your golf. To name a
few, there’s swing-optimizing smart watches, data collecting e-caddies, and
hovercraft golf carts. Unfortunately,
all these golf dedicated devices tend to be practically expensive and can only
be used when a golfer hits the link.
Fortunately, Microsoft teamed up with a distinguished
company called TaylorMade and came up with golf-related apps that can be used
on a daily basis – whether you are at a golf spot or not. The result of such
collaboration is an analytics app that works with Microsoft Band fitness
tracker.
For the uninitiated, Microsoft Band features a Golf tile
that is fitted with algorithms, GPS, and accelerometers. This way, it can
automatically calculate golf scores for every round. Microsoft, the high-tech
company behind this app, prides that Microsoft Band is smart enough to differentiate
a practice swing and an actual shot. It features sensors programmed to detect
impact of the ball to the club. In addition, it can also fill in scores once it
senses that the player has taken his last shot on a hole. Users of this app
need to manually record scores if other players are not using it yet; but it
really acts like an invisible scorekeeper.
Scores for each round of game played while on golf trip as well as
GPS data are linked to a carefully researched and well-tested analysis tool
called myRoundPro – a software based on an internal tool that was developed by
TaylorMade to test club performance on actual golf courses. For the record, members
of the UCLA golf team have been using this technology to analyze and improve
golf performance – but this is the first time it was tied to a consumer
product.
So what does myRoundPro do? Essentially, such system
provides every golfer a mapped-out view of every round of golf played. It
offers a sliced-and-diced data for every shot and swing executed – without any
special golf ball or anything attached to the club or whatever gadget other
than the fitness band itself. Interestingly, myRoundPro tracks distance covered
for each drive, the average score over time, as well as the number of fairways
hit. It also maps out each shot on the overlay of the course played.
The best thing about this app is that it is fully automatic,
requiring only a few manual steps to set up. Golfers only need to search and
select a course from TaylorMade’s 18,000 golf vacation spots in the Microsoft
Health mobile app. Players would later have to select the tee box they plan to
use for each round. Afterwards, golfers can practice swing to calibrate the
system and get it ready for many more rounds.
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