The GHIN app tracks extra stats than you may ever report on a scorecard.
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How’s your sport?
We don’t imply ‘How do you suppose you’ve got been taking part in.’ We’re asking the way you’ve really been performing. There’s usually a distinction between really feel and actual.
The excellent news is, your reply doesn’t have to return right down to guesswork. Efficiency, in any case, could be measured. The simplest means to take action is by preserving a handicap index.
Posting your scores doesn’t simply offer you a snapshot in time. It helps paint a broader image. It reveals how you’re progressing, or regressing (hey, it will possibly occur to one of the best of us). It additionally means that you can place your sport in context. Dig deeper into the information, and you’ll see the way you examine to different golfers.
Are you higher than common? This, too, could be, measured. The common handicap index for male golfers on this nation is 14.2. For feminine golfers, the typical is 28.7.
In america in the present day, greater than 3.2 million golfers preserve a handicap index, up from 2.6 million in 2020. Simply as participation within the sport 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, for example, a brand new 30-day free trial for the GHIN app. Now you can obtain the app for gratis (beforehand, you may solely use the app in case you have 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 will provide you with your estimated handicap vary (inside 5 strokes). You may preserve posting scores all through your 30-day free trial. When your trial expires, you possibly can then join a handicap index on GHIN (the associated fee is often about $50-$60 contingent upon your membership or native golf affiliation’s pricing), which is nice 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 join a handicap index on GHIN, having fun with options which might be extra expansive than ever, similar to enhanced shot-tracking, on-course GPS, and color-coded maps of greens that present which means putts break. Extra bells and whistles are coming later this 12 months and subsequent, together with gamification options that may permit golfers to check their internet scores with others, primarily based on their handicap on the course they’re taking part in.
As a lot as golfers play by really feel, surveys present that the majority additionally think about themselves data-driven.
“So we’re additionally taking a look at improved stats and evaluation of your sport and the way you examine 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 enable you to perceive your sport higher primarily based on the data you give to us?”
How’s your sport? No have to reply proper this minute. We’ll examine again after you’ve posted a number of extra scores.
