Courtesy of Good Poster, I have been playing around with Arccos recently. Granted, a lot of this stuff will get more useful after I play a bunch of rounds, but I am loving this ap. So far, it has caught pretty much everything. A couple of cool things I have noticed:
(1) When I got everything said up, I told Arccos my goal was to move my HCI from an 18.1 to a 13. After a rounds, it compares your different areas of the course to a 13 handicap to tell you where you are gaining or losing shots. On this last, windy ass round, I as a +2.2 driving and a +1.4 putting, but I was a -3.7 on my short game and a whopping -6.8 on my approach shots. Arccos is (understandably) suggesting I practice my approach game.
(2) I probably found 4 balls I wouldn't have without the app. When I was out there in the deep Texas fescue, I could use the app to track how far I was from my last shot. There were a couple of times I drove out to where I thought the ball would be only to check the app and realize I was 330 yards away from my last shot. Sure enough, I drove back 40-50 yards and was able to find the ball and stay in play.
(3) I have a dreaded right and left miss with my driver. 7 shots missed the fairway left, 6 missed right.
(4) Back to that approach number (everything 200 yards an under). I was pretty good from 125-200 (-0.5 off a 13 HC). However, from 50-74 yards, I was -3.0. I felt that out there too. Just couldn't get any kind of touch.
(5) Short game wasn't all that bad. On pitches and chips from 25-50 yards, my average pin distance was 24 feet. On chips under 25 yards, my average leave was 17 feet. Pretty ****ty for a scratch golfer, but not too bad for an 18 trying to get to a 13.
(6) Getting some club gapping from real world data now, which is cool. Assuming this will get tighter the more rounds I log.
All in all, this is pretty cool stuff. I was always wanting to track my data but I was bad about doing it. I love how this thing takes care of it for me. Every shot, i know if it was a left or right miss, what I was hitting out of, etc. Highly recommend if you're a numbers geek.
(1) When I got everything said up, I told Arccos my goal was to move my HCI from an 18.1 to a 13. After a rounds, it compares your different areas of the course to a 13 handicap to tell you where you are gaining or losing shots. On this last, windy ass round, I as a +2.2 driving and a +1.4 putting, but I was a -3.7 on my short game and a whopping -6.8 on my approach shots. Arccos is (understandably) suggesting I practice my approach game.
(2) I probably found 4 balls I wouldn't have without the app. When I was out there in the deep Texas fescue, I could use the app to track how far I was from my last shot. There were a couple of times I drove out to where I thought the ball would be only to check the app and realize I was 330 yards away from my last shot. Sure enough, I drove back 40-50 yards and was able to find the ball and stay in play.
(3) I have a dreaded right and left miss with my driver. 7 shots missed the fairway left, 6 missed right.
(4) Back to that approach number (everything 200 yards an under). I was pretty good from 125-200 (-0.5 off a 13 HC). However, from 50-74 yards, I was -3.0. I felt that out there too. Just couldn't get any kind of touch.
(5) Short game wasn't all that bad. On pitches and chips from 25-50 yards, my average pin distance was 24 feet. On chips under 25 yards, my average leave was 17 feet. Pretty ****ty for a scratch golfer, but not too bad for an 18 trying to get to a 13.
(6) Getting some club gapping from real world data now, which is cool. Assuming this will get tighter the more rounds I log.
All in all, this is pretty cool stuff. I was always wanting to track my data but I was bad about doing it. I love how this thing takes care of it for me. Every shot, i know if it was a left or right miss, what I was hitting out of, etc. Highly recommend if you're a numbers geek.