Using data to lower your golf handicap

{mosimage}In keeping with my motto ‘turning data into decisions’, I recently turned to some very cool golf software to enable me to better track my performances, and help identify areas of my game I need to work on.

It’s called Mobile
golf scorer and it’s built by a keen German golfer who also owns a software company.

The gentlemen in question is Andreas Lachner and he didn’t like the look of what he saw when he tried the various golf applications out there (and I must confess all the ones I’ve tried so far have been pretty poor also), so he built one himself and by eck this is good stuff.

Vorsprung durch technik.

It took me around 4 hours to produce a yardage guide to my local course. This mainly involved grabbing images from Google Earth, tweaking them in Photoshop, then finally importing them into the Mobile Golf Scorer software and calibrating them with the software. There is a very useful feature for exporting yardage guides in PDF format which was used to create the document. Very useful to all those non-techy golfers out there who have yet to get a pda!

As I strive to get my handicap down to single figures, I’ll be posting more of these guides to the local courses I play.