A training assistance still to be released called Golf I got up on my Facebook food another day and it made me think.
Golf truly has gone digital. You probably noticed.
Starting monitors dissects every aspect of your swing. Feeling tracking systems like Shot Scope and Arccos catalog your every move on the course. Training aids as Stack Promise to add 20 yards to your car, Hack analyzes your hand ankle position, and Sportbox he disrupt your swinging using nothing more than your phone camera.
We measure the velocity of the ball, the attack angle, the front-way, the rotation rates and a dozen other metrics that did not exist in the dictionaries of most players a decade ago. We have sensors, algorithms and apps for damn close to everything.
But, somehow, in all this technological progress, we have largely ignored one of the most basic elements of golf: extension.
Think about it. You can spend thousands on a release monitor that tells you that your club was 1.2 degrees open to influence, but when it comes to making sure you are actually targeted where you think you are intended? We are still climbing two actions by car to the ground and calling it one day.
Because that’s what they are, isn’t it? Stretch sticks are literally reflectors with a 200- to 300 percent note. The same with orange fiberglass has your neighbor use to mark his way in winter somewhat to become “professional training aid” when they appear in a golf store.
Sign in to wet golf
This is where a company called Laced Golf thinks it can help. They are developing what could be the first Really digital access to stretch trainingSensors mounted in order to provide real -time feedback in your configuration position.
The concept is quite straightforward. Attach sensors to your shoes, block your target with a tap on the phone, and the naked golf application offers personalized stretch feedback as you walk in your configuration. Over time, the system learns your optimal reach for any club in your bag, counting things like your natural shot and favorite ball position.
Play a pallor with your driver? The system learns your exact optimal approximation for that club and the shape of the shot, up to the ladder. Should you settle differently for a 7-hekuri versus a wedge? Laced Golf claims he will realize this too.
The idea is not completely without precedent. We have seen foot pressure sensors, balance training aids and even some early efforts on digital extension tools. What is different here is the promise of a system that learns and adapts to your specific needs rather than applying solutions with a suitable size.
Why is the approximation important (and why we are bad in it)
Here is the thing about stretching: it is deceitful simple and disappointing difficult.
Most players think they are aimed at their target when they actually run a few degrees offline. Even minor abuses – the type that are almost invisible to the naked eye – can turn pars to bogeys. Miss your target with a few degrees with a driver and you are in rough or worse.
The irony is that stretching can be easier to adjust if you can simply see what you are doing wrong. But without feedback, most of us continue to practice the same mistakes over and over.
The biggest picture
Wet golf represents something bigger than another training aid. Part part of the continuous transformation of golf from a sport that relied heavily on feeling and intuition in an increasingly directed data and accuracy.
Ten years ago, if you wanted to know if your driver’s face was open to Impact, you need access to a suitable tournament structure. Today, you can get that information from a $ 500 release monitor or even a smartphone app.
The same democratization of data that has transformed the way we think about adapting the club, selecting the ball and the shaking mechanics are coming to stretch. Whether this is good or bad depends on your perspective, but it is happening in any way.
Questions remain
Of course, there are many questions about how this will work in practice. How accurate are the sensors? How long does the battery last? Will the system work in different types of courses and terrain? And, perhaps most importantly, will players use it continuously to see improvement?
There is also a price issue, which Laced Golf has not yet revealed. If the system costs more than a few lessons with a good instructor, the value proposal becomes controversial for most recreation players.
But here is the basic question: Should one of the most basic golf skills to come out of digital?
Would you be interested in a system that could help you Find your ideal configuration position With each club and give you real -time impression on your extension? Or do you think some aspects of the game are better left to feel and tradition?
In a sport that is increasingly embracing new technology to solve old problems, stretching can be the last limit. The question is whether we really have to overcome it.
Golf It is currently in development. Stay tuned to see what comes from it.
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