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Penalty areas, drops, and club stats

efpreston
over 3 years ago

Under "results", the options are "in play", "lost ball," "unplayable," "out of bounds." None of these apply to taking relief from a penalty area.

So If I hit a drive 270 and it lands in a penalty area, and I take a drop so based on the location of my next shot it registers as a 150 yard drive... does that count toward the driver stats? Or if I choose "unplayable" (the closest thing to taking penalty area relief) does it not count toward stats (since it doesn't know where the shot actually ended up?)

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    An additional concern

    is that the Garmin Golf app doesn’t seem to allow a player to indicate that the starting point for the shot following an OB/lost ball/penalty is a drop. It automatically makes the drop location as the end location for the prior shot - and there’s no way to edit it that I can find. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Joel

    Yeah that's what I was asking about. The "shot result" field seems to be where that would be indicated, but as far as I can tell it doesn't do anything at all. What's the point of it?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to efpreston

    I called Garmin and they said there’s no way to do this. I use the club sensors so the shot is automatically recorded. Don’t know if it can be done correctly if the shot is entered manually but I suspect not. 

    This software design error results in bad data. A lost drive followed by a legal drop in the fairway can be scores properly but the app will wrongly count it as a fairway hit. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Joel

    I bet if they open sourced their code I could fix it in a few hours. I gave up on Garmin ever doing anything for users, or giving a crap about golf at all. All they care about is selling hardware. Wish I could get a refund.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    IMO, a drive that results in a penalty shouldn't be counted in your driver stats; what I do is have generic club I call F/W Miss and any time I have a stroke that I don't want included in my real stats I mark the club used as F/W Miss.  You can call it whatever you want and edit clubs used on the website after uploading your round anyway.  I also label one for Recovery for those short punch shots you use to get better position.  Stats recording is based on what you want reflected for the clubs you use - use it as you see fit and mark really bad shots accordingly.