Arccos

Played 4 rounds and I learn something new each time. Be patient and learn how the app functions. First of all, I wear my iPhone on my belt clip with the microphone/speakers directed at ball. It has never missed a shot. Even tap in putts. It keeps perfect score and moves from hole to hole seamlessly. After round it is fairly easy to edit shots for accuracy of data. Fairways, putts off green, penalty shots etc. The best hidden feature is the yardage tracking after each shot. Just swipe up from bottom and see how far you are from the last hit. Great for helping you find blind and wayward shots in rough, etc. If you want to take a practice shot during round, leave phone in your cart so it’s not recorded. Easily see your club yardage averages and longest shots for each club. I’m really looking forward to a season of accumulated data to tell me the facts of my golf game.

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I think that this is an awesome program and tool, when it works. Over the last 1.5 years it has helped me to develop more consistency with each club and develop a good understanding of how far each club “actually” goes. Lately though it seems that the app is having quite a few issues. I have had to delete the last 2 or 3 rounds that I’ve played because a few holes into the round, the arccos system will lose its way or start missing shots and when you try to edit your shots, to keep up with your round, the app starts flashing and bouncing screens worse than a flash mob at a disco!! I play golf as a way to de-stress from work and have fun with friends but the last few rounds I have had to shut the system off mid round because I just couldn’t take its added stress anymore!! The other day I contemplated throwing my phone in the pond as I was that frustrated. I really hope they find a way to fix these issues as this could be a really great tool but we are not there yet. Good luck!

I’ve been using this for about 3 years now and have enjoyed getting feedback on my game and the caddie feature to help account for wind, slope, etc. A few years ago, I was able to get the app on my iPad but I am no longer able to do this. I would really like to have this feature back as it is nice to be able to review my rounds or view the course layout the day before playing to plan a strategy for holes. Customer service is great. I played a course a few times prior, but when I went to play it again, they told me it wasn’t mapped. I called in on a Saturday when teeing off and within a couple holes, they had remapped the course and I was able to reload the course and use it going forward.

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The idea is sound, but there are serious issues that have me on the edge of abandoning it. I've used it for 4-5 rounds so far. The worst issue is that the app disables the use of wireless earbuds. I have earpods now, but I also used powerbeats 3 for one round. All audio output is diverted to phone speakers, EVEN THOUGH THE HEADPHONES ARE CONNECTED. I frankly can't believe Apple allowed the app into the store with this flaw. The play/pause function in the headphones works, but the audio only comes from the phone speakers. Next, many strokes are not detected, especially putts. Putts are trivial to add or subtract, but regular strokes are not. The Editing function ballows you to edit the strokes on a hole, but it is poorly done. I am an iOS developer so I understand and can figure out a UI. This one is poor. One simple thing is that it prevents you from zooming in enough. This is a purely arbitrary and silly restriction. Lastly, stats are not displayed well at all. There is not even a straightforward scorecard view of the round!!! The Golfshot app has a much better UI. The sensor functions paired with that app would be an almost ideal solution. I'm so close to going back to it. I actually spend more time editing each hole in Arccos than I do in entering my stats by hand in Golfshot.

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Got a set of sensors with my new driver I got for the holidays. It also came with a free 3 month trial. To get the sensors sent I had to sign up and activate my free 3 month trial. That was at the end of November. I live in Nebraska and was not able to play till the beginning of March when we took a trip to Arizona. So long and short of it, I didn’t get to play any rounds through the free trial. I do not like how active on the phone you have to be on every shot. There are too many missed shots not to check after each one and then the time it takes to enter missed shot. It took away from the game, the companionship of the people I’m with and the scenery around me. Played 10 rounds with it and averaged a score of 97. Played my next 10 rounds without the system and went back to my range finder and averaged a score of 91.5. There is some great information available, but ensuring accurate information takes way too much time and effort. Chalk this up to paying $10 a round for the 10 rounds to figure this out. Really wish I didn’t have to start the 3 month subscription in the winter. Would have saved me $100. As I said, it’s a good system in theory, just not for me until there is a better technology between the sensors and the phone.