Golf Channel

I use it mainly from a fantasy golf perspective with a group of friends. The new update has been so frustrating as it makes you login every single time. Please consider adding a simple “save my login information” button or quit making us login every time. Speaking of the fantasy golf play, the ratings and cost of the players are terrible. It bulks most of the players at the same cost. There is no significant drop off from lower rated players, especially in the $25-32k range. For example, why would I take Jimmy Walker for $32k for this weeks Byron Nelson when I could have Speith for $33k. Walker should be rated around $24k to give any incentive to choose him over another top tier player. The only thing I enjoy from a fantasy perspective is the scoring system forces you to choose lower tier players so there’s definitely a lot of strategy involved there and also helps you get get to know unknown players.

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I have never written an app review before, but after years of using the Golf Channel app with only one complaint (more on that in the next paragraph), I feel compelled to say that your latest upgrade is one of the worst upgrades to any app I have ever used. The fonts are so small that text can barely be seen and so gray that text can hardly be distinguished from the background. There's way too much white space between names and scores and between one name and the next, so you can't gather in a lot of information all at once, and there's no box or line (just the faint word "Leaderboard" separating favorite players from the full field scores. My one consistent complaint is the backseat that the LPGA takes in the "Tournaments this Week" list and, usually, in the "News" section. Disappointing.

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You can do better. Other than checking scores I haven’t jumped into this app for much else in a long time. It used to be smooth and made sense. So why the plummeting reviews. It’s just a golf channel app for articles, videos and scores right? They have limitless resources to give you the best app possible right? No really that’s a question that needs answering. Videos rarely load upon start up then Just wanted to read some articles. Opened one. Read it and tried to watch a video in the article. That was painstakingly ridiculous. The video was clunky and couldn’t be controlled. No landscape? Really? Climbed out of that mess to read the next article and had to scroll back down to where I had left off. So you get air lifted to the top of the whole building every time? Why is simplicity lost update after update? Keep the simple things simple.

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Short version: I accepted the previous version’s redo of the presentation of the app grudgingly thinking I’d get accustomed to it. Now an update comes in and the only layout allowed is portrait. Into the dumper the app goes; I’ll use the web page or another app instead. Long version: I keep the Golf Channel app in my iPad dock as it is, but now was, my go-to golf news app. I also use my iPad exclusively in landscape mode, unless I have no choice for an app I need. The version that was in place for years was, to me, logical, easy to navigate, and gave me the info I needed in the format I liked. Then the n-1 version came out, the articles and sections were redone to the point where it took some effort to find what previously easily was accessed. I thought it was a change I’d get used to over time. Then the current version, #477, came out, and, despite the splash screen presenting in landscape mode, once the content is filled, the screen flips to portrait mode, with no options I can find to override that in the settings panel. Bottom line, the app will leave my dock, the app will be put in the dust bin and I’ll find my golf news elsewhere. It was fun while it lasted.

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The new version of this app is disorganized, almost chaotic - it is just impossible to navigate to scores and stories in a logical manner. Who thought this was a good idea? Can I give this mess zero stars? Please, take this back to the developer. Hurry. After living with the V 4.7.1 upgrade for a couple of weeks, I can say that the Golf Channel App has joined the infamous CBS Sports - NCAA basketball “Coverage Gap” as obnoxious and disrespectful to golf fans everywhere (CBS uses the time to refresh “Sir Nick’s” makeup, I guess). The CBS issue can be avoided by finding coverage elsewhere on the web. As for the Golf Channel App, all I have to do is hit “Delete” - Bye-bye! Ratings have gone from 4.1 out of 5 before the updated app to less than 3, now 2.9 out of 5. I expect the ratings will sink further from this low level. If I wanted to follow every golfer’s social media or pictures of Paige and Paulina and Natalie and every other attractive woman who adds little to the sport, I could follow them on Facebook or Instagram or who cares what other place - it’s not the information or views I come to the Golf Channel app to obtain. It truly is time to go. Wake up, Golf Channel!