The GHIN app tracks extra stats than you may ever file on a scorecard.
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How’s your recreation?
We don’t imply ‘How do you suppose you could have been enjoying.’ We’re asking the way you’ve really been performing. There’s typically a distinction between really feel and actual.
The excellent news is, your reply doesn’t have to return all the way down to guesswork. Efficiency, in any case, might be measured. The simplest manner to take action is by protecting a handicap index.
Posting your scores doesn’t simply give you a snapshot in time. It helps paint a broader image. It exhibits how you might be progressing, or regressing (hey, it may occur to the perfect of us). It additionally permits you to place your recreation in context. Dig deeper into the information, and you may see the way you evaluate to different golfers.
Are you higher than common? This, too, might be, measured. The common handicap index for male golfers on this nation is 14.2. For feminine golfers, the common is 28.7.
In the US right now, greater than 3.2 million golfers hold a handicap index, up from 2.6 million in 2020. Simply as participation within the recreation is rising, so is participation in GHIN, the handicapping system overseen by the USGA, which retains including to GHIN’s capabilities whereas making GHIN itself simpler to make use of.
Take, as an illustration, a brand new 30-day free trial for the GHIN app. Now you can obtain the app for free of charge (beforehand, you may solely use the app should you had been already signed up for a handicap index) and begin posting scores. The clock doesn’t begin ticking in your 30-day free trial till you’ve posted 54 holes, at which level GHIN offers you your estimated handicap vary (inside 5 strokes). You possibly can hold posting scores all through your 30-day free trial. When your trial expires, you’ll be able to then join a handicap index on GHIN (the associated fee is normally about $50-$60 contingent upon your membership or native golf affiliation’s pricing), which is sweet for a 12 months.
Within the final three months, greater than 86,000 golfers have taken benefit of the 30-day free trial, and a greater than 27,000 have gone on to enroll in a handicap index on GHIN, having fun with options which can be extra expansive than ever, resembling enhanced shot-tracking, on-course GPS, and color-coded maps of greens that present which manner putts break. Extra bells and whistles are coming later this 12 months and subsequent, together with gamification options that can enable golfers to match their web scores with others, primarily based on their handicap on the course they’re enjoying.
As a lot as golfers play by really feel, surveys present that the majority additionally contemplate themselves data-driven.
“So we’re additionally improved stats and evaluation of your recreation and the way you evaluate to golfers in your handicap vary or golfers in a focused handicap vary,” says Tom Padula, the USGA’s director of product administration, GHIN apps. “The emphasis is, how can we make it easier to perceive your recreation higher primarily based on the knowledge you give to us?”
How’s your recreation? No have to reply proper this minute. We’ll examine again after you’ve posted a number of extra scores.
