GPS Golf Yardages on Smartphone

[Guest Paul H]

mCaddy are proud to announce that their new GPS-based golf yardages application for Windows-powered Smartphone and Pocket PC is about to enter Beta.

mCaddyGPS has been designed to enable golfers to make use of their Smartphone or Pocket PC, with a suitable GPS Receiver, to display yardages for each hole whilst on the course, without hindering and slowing their game.

Play and Survey screens from Smartphone Edition

It features and easy-to-use interface & extremely clear screen layout, and gives golfers the ability to map their own courses, or download ones created by other users from the mCaddy Community website.

If you would like to join the Beta test group (for either Smartphone or Pocket PC versions), please visit the mCaddy website at http://www.mcaddy.co.uk

[Guest muff]

with just a little work this could be really useful, beyond it's current info

it could help you keep track of your club distances to aid with club selection - as well as seeing if you improve

it could tell you the elevation between current location and green as well as distance

and tied to a imported map gfx function could be a really nice interface to let you understand the lie of the land in pictorial form, not just numerical

there are certainly some cool usages for this ;)

[Guest Paul H]

Shot Tracking and club suggestion is the next planned feature once v1 is out-the-door and will be a free upgrade to all registered users.

It is obviously possible to give elevation information between the player and the green, however I am not sure that this would be covered by the new R&A & USGA rule changes which permit GPS-based yardage systems in competition.

...sanction of the use of distance measuring devices, including GPS based systems and laser rangefinders. New Decision 14-3/0.5 allows a committee to permit the use of distance measuring devices by Local Rule. This applies to devices that measure distance only, not any other conditions that might affect a player’s game such as wind or gradient.

Thanks for your suggestions, and I look forward to seeing you on the mCaddy Community.

Paul

http://www.mcaddy.co.uk