the hole. A pre hole flyover also shows you the different
ways to play the hole, the big hitters and the cautious
players are catered for. At any point during the hole this
information is easily access via the quick menu system.
Golfshot claims to have 40,000 courses in its database
worldwide, which places in the top few percent of the
apps that offer GPS tracking.
If you use Golfshot regularly throughout the round and
don’t power down, you can burn through a full charge
in the course of a five-hour round. If you lock the phone
when not in use, you can constrain battery usage to under
50% during a round.
Golfshot provides standard inputs for scoring (score and
number of putts), along with the ability to enter the club
used off the tee, the location of the drive (fairway, or miss
left/right), the number of sand shots, and the number of
penalty strokes. Scoring is available for up to eight players
and rounds can be sent to playing partners via the share
system after the round is complete.
Golfshot showed solid mapping accuracy – in our test
rounds on a variety of courses, we found the distances
displayed by Golfshot to stay within 3 yards of those
displayed by marked tee boxes and sprinkler heads.
For a paid for app it doesn’t offer a huge amount more
accuracy than some of it’s free competitors. The premium
package does allow you get a USGA handicap and to access
you a vast amount of information on how to improve your
game as well as the sports latest news. There is value you
to having all of this in one place but the ability to browse
the internet of any number of YouTube channels for free
advice can make these features a little defunct.
This is aimed at the hard-core golfer
offering everything from yardages to
the pic, the latest golf news, access to
an online data base of tips and lessons
as well as a number of feeds to the
latest golf tours.
However to access all of the functionality
on the app you have to subscribe the
apps premium Pro service, it’s not a
huge amount, £1.20 for a month or
£6.02 for the year.
The app offers the user a vast of amount
of information for each hole, you can
drag the aiming reticule to any point
on the hole for a distance too or from
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No. of courses worldwide 4/5
Price 3/5
Ease of use 4/5
Aesthetics 4.5/5
Yardages and distances 4/5
Battery consumption 3/5