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Garmin golf app poor quality and information

AEG84

Hello Garmin Golf Team,

First of all, I would like to say that I am a Garmin user and I really appreciate the quality of your golf watches and hardware. However, I would like to share some feedback regarding the Garmin Golf app.

In my opinion, the app is currently well behind what many golfers would expect from a modern golf analytics platform. While Garmin excels in hardware, the software and statistical analysis side feels significantly less developed than competing solutions such as shotscope or arcos

Many amateur golfers today are looking for much more than score tracking and basic statistics. We want actionable insights that help us improve our game. For example:

  • Detailed performance analysis by distance ranges.
  • Strokes gained statistics across all areas of the game.
  • Better approach-shot analysis.
  • Short-game performance breakdowns.
  • Trends by course, hole, club, and lie.
  • Performance benchmarks against players of similar handicap levels.
  • Stronger data visualization and reporting tools.

Garmin already collects a huge amount of valuable data through its devices. It feels like the app is not yet taking full advantage of that information.

Are there any plans to significantly expand the analytics capabilities of the Garmin Golf app in future updates? Many golfers would welcome a more advanced statistics platform that could compete directly with the insights currently offered by Shot Scope and Arccos.

Thank you for considering this feedback.

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    We appreciate the feedback and suggestions to improve the app experience. Any suggestions you have please use the below link so that they can be sent to our teams to implement them as they see fit.

    https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/ 

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     , as long as Garmin is not making improvements you can try shotroom.app, it imports Garmin data and shows many of the insight you mention in your post. I am not affiliated, but have been using it the past couple of weeks.

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    I personally believe there is a disconnect between what people would like to see and what they prioritize. I now cringe with any new update because there frankly is a real issue with poor quality testing of new releases that are causing further issues with features that were working that  after update no longer work.
    I have had 3 separate issues with losing putting data now (that takes other stats with it), and all my putting data from 1 year and older are permanently gone because of this. Now there is another issue with the Android version losing data.
    But....they waste time on useless things like those annoying badges I get 2-4 of after every round. It's a useless game that does nothing for the average golfer given the abundance they hand out it's like collecting Pokemon cards silly IMO. 

    Hopefully someone introduces them to Ai where coding errors and problem solving happen before the update / new release.