The Apple Watch serves as a versatile tool for golfers, enabling them to remain connected, active, and healthy. A variety of excellent golfing apps are available, providing users with course details and a range of tools and insights to enhance their game.
The introduction of the high-frequency motion API in watchOS 10 has empowered developers like Golfshot to create innovative experiences tailored to improving users’ golfing performance. Utilizing this API, Golfshot’s latest offering, the Swing ID On-Range experience, accurately identifies the moment the club makes contact with the ball during swing practice.
Apple Watch sensors provide in-depth analysis of a golfer’s swing throughout its entirety, allowing users of all skill levels to monitor essential swing metrics with precision, such as tempo, rhythm, backswing, transition, and wrist path. This comprehensive feedback aids players in refining their gameplay effectively.
During a round, Golfshot extends a range of features on the Apple Watch, including GPS distances, scoring, Auto Shot Tracking, swing analysis, and Auto Strokes Gained. This comprehensive suite enables golfers to meticulously track each shot and receive instant feedback on real-time distances to the green, hazards, and targets across more than 46,000 courses worldwide. Moreover, the Apple Watch facilitates an automated data collection process during gameplay, allowing users to enjoy post-round flyover reviews and in-depth statistical analysis on their iPhone, thereby enhancing their overall performance.
Alex Flores, Golfshot’s chief growth officer, emphasized the company’s commitment to maximizing the capabilities of the Apple Watch, a focus that dates back to their initial release on the platform in 2015. He highlighted innovative functionalities such as Auto Shot Tracking and Swing ID, both powered by the Apple Watch and sophisticated machine learning algorithms. These features provide golfers with personalized, real-time data directly on their wearable device, contributing significantly to their ongoing improvement on the course.
Golfshot is one of many golf-focused third-party apps available for Apple Watch.2 Additional golf apps for Apple Watch offer unique functionality that allow golfers to:
- Track shots, get precise yardages adjusted in real time and club recommendations, and even mark the pin directly from Apple Watch with Arccos, the official game tracker of the PGA TOUR.
- See hole layouts, carry distances, approach views with colour heat maps of the green, and slope arrows for reading putts, all from the wrist, with GolfLogix.
- Track scores, stats, and shot distances, and access a free golf GPS on iPhone and Apple Watch with TheGrint.
- Get essentials with a glance at Apple Watch, including distances, maps, scoring, and a shot tracker, with Hole19.
- Plan shots, get distances, and track scores and stats all directly from Apple Watch with 18Birdies Golf GPS Tracker.
Made for Golfers
The Apple Watch Ultra 2 introduces an array of features tailored for golfers. Encased in bold titanium and equipped with a flat sapphire front crystal, it boasts Apple’s brightest display to date, ensuring optimal readability even under harsh sunlight on the golf course. Furthermore, this rugged and versatile device offers an impressive 36-hour battery life under regular usage conditions. During outdoor workouts with GPS tracking enabled, it can last up to 12 hours, setting a new standard for endurance among Apple Watches. Notably, it also delivers the most accurate GPS performance of any Apple Watch model available.
Source: Apple