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TominNJ
over 4 years ago

I played my first round of golf yesterday. Observations:

the CT-10 on the putter was a bad idea. It carried my putter with another club and it assumed I was putting. I couldn’t figure out how to go back to record my chip. I was so distracted trying not to record a putt when I wasn’t putting that I putted awful. I won’t use the CT-10 on the putter again.

There needs to be a way to hit a chip, a pitch, a lob shot and a bunker shot without the shot counting against the average club distance. I tried adding a club to the bag and calling it “chip”. This sort of worked except the club nickname doesn’t show up in the shot map. It showed me hitting a lob wedge instead of a chip. A simple fix would be to change the shot maps to use club nicknames instead of the generic club name.

I have no idea how you could fix the average club distances when using the CT-10s. In my opinion, this a strong argument against using them.

the activity tracker didn’t seem to tell the difference between walking and riding in the cart. It threw my daily exercise total out of whack.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have just played my first round with the Garmin S62 and analysed the data that it produced. I found that the device was very good at working out the average distance for each club. It appears to use the Mode as the way of averaging,ie Using the distance that occurs most often (within a set variable).For example I hit two 5 woods approximately 190 yards and I miss hit a third from the rough that only went 50 yards. The app data ignored the short hit and gave me an average of 187 yards. Also I used my pitching wedge around the green for my chip shots and the calculation ignored these shots for averaging purposes. My average was calculated to be 100 yards, which coincided with the two full wedge shots that I hit during the round.

    I found that some of the chip shots were not recognised but it was quite easy to enter them, in the app, afterwards.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    When you use CT10 on your putter, carry it around with the handle facing down (like it's in the bag) and lay it on the ground while you're chipping. 99% of the time it's the act of flipping the club around that switches you to putting mode. Or getting too close to the green.

    Average club distances already exclude big variations via algorithm. I punch with 4 iron all the time and the average is still 224. But for lesser clubs... there's no way for it to know you hit a punch shot with something that you only hit like 150 yards anyway. It's too close. If you care that much about what the average distance shows (why??) then just don't label those shots or do what you are doing with a designated chipping club.