Let me ask you some questions.
How many golf applications do you have on your phone or tablet?
Among the boot monitors, the shaky coach, the rangefinders, etc., how many parts of the digital golf equipment do you own?
The last question.
How many of those digital applications and toys communicate with one another?
I’m thinking it’s not a lot. Welcome to the dark side of digital hellscape enlargement of golf.
We are dragging closer to partial solutions. What we have now is more or less like collecting the individual parts of an enigma with no connecting edges. Despite thousands of hours of development and millions of entrepreneurship capital, the digital golf space is a Babel technological tower, where our tools and applications that empower them can also speak different languages ​​because most cannot communicate with each other.
The solution so far has been a series of one -sided partnerships. For example, at the level of the enterprise, the forecast has a partnership with Swing Catalyst but, more often than not, any particular part of the golf technology we own exists in isolation from the rest.
For consumers, lack of interconnection is a way of life.
Do you do your troubadour Talk to your digital beds BAL.ON? Is there any mirror of your Hack Movement Stretch Data? Can you order doordash from yours stack App?
The latter is probably not important, but my opinion is that we have been given a technological universe, where our data is trapped in silos that are never validation. And yes, I know it is a mixed metaphor, which is the perfect type of metaphor to further illustrate the basic detachment between our golf data systems.
An enterprise degree failure
A few years ago at the PGA show, there was a company … I can’t remember her name, but I promise you it doesn’t matter because there is no chance of them still in business.
Their product promised to serve as an excellent technology aggregator, a means of connecting, perhaps to unite the various golf technologies into a single system. A strong idea but the demonstration never worked and that was it.
At that time, Golf Tech was in its comparative beginnings. Digital swing analyzers were mainly faded, Archive AND Stretch were relatively new and personal start monitors as FleightScope Mevo, Bushnell Launch Pro AND troubadour did not exist.
So, while I think the lack of interaction was disappointing for those who had to deal with it, it was not something that most players had ever thought.
Dawn of the Golf’s digital era
Ahead of ahead so far and many players players are feeling the headache.
If you have a boot monitor, no doubt you have a ton of data. There is a digital record of what you do with each club in the bag. Good or bad, the system knows.
Excellent?
Tools on the course have also increased in popularity. Due to OEM partnerships, a significant number of players have had the opportunity to get shot for a rotation. Shot Scope has a large audience as well. Cumulatively, it is right to say that while not every golf player is interested, there is a growing audience for detailed analysis on the course.
Here is the challenge.
There is nothing else that connects what happens in your personal stroke bosom with what happens in the Golf course and, with my knowledge, there is nothing absolutely ending the circle: bringing what happens in your home practice environment.
Some degrees less than a circle
To be sure, the market is evolving, and rapidly.
In early January, Foresight and Bushnell released technology powered by LINK. The connection allows the shot data collected on your Bushnell or Forexight monitor to be synchronized on your Rangefinder Bushnell Launch, where it is used to make real -time club recommendations for any stroke you hit in the Golf Course.
Just in time for the PGA show, FleightScope launched Sorting finder i4 which performs a similar function within the Fliffscope ecosystem. I think I4 is the first part of the Fleightscope set outside the Launch Monitoring category and the involved Smart Gapping tool allows you to get personalized recommendations even if you do not have a release monitor.
These new offers wish the gap between the bay of the blow and the golf course. They bring us unified technology.
Now, to be sure, I am not fully sure how much demand is for this level of data continuity. Some I have spoken to believe that these enlargement technologies present solutions in search of a problem. If true, the ceiling can be low.
I’m more bullies. I love these things.
For me, both technologies bring players one step forward in what I call The closing of the loop. It is a kind of life -circle idea, where your personal start monitor information informs real -time course decisions.
We have extended our lines, but we have not yet closed the loop.
What else is there?
The next step is to get those results informed in the course and return them to active knowledge that can be used in the bosom of hitting with the purpose of improving the results in the course.
Round and round we go while we are digital spiral to a fully interconnected and finally better golf game. Or at least one more informed.
Temperature your expectations
With so many – hundreds of genuine – of companies in the golf technology space, it is unrealistic to think that all our toys will be able to communicate with one another.
That is to say, size often comes. Larger brands, especially those, the catalog of the products of which includes multiple categories, should be fine … or at least better … positioned to unify the technology that allows you to bring your stroke data to the golf course and again with adapted knowledge.
The first company to close the loop will have my inseparable attention.
What about you?
Do you tease your tools like Parashight/Bushnell Link and Fliffscope I4? What are your points of digital pain associated with golf?
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