Golf Companion

 
 

Golf Companion is the app you always want to carry it whenever wherever you play golf.  Like other golf apps, it does keep scores, calculate handicap & statistics, GPS and more.


Are you looking for an golf app which allows you to download course information?  My app might not be the answer.  Golf Companion doesn’t provide downloading course information for you like other apps. Then, should you input all course information?  Answer is NO.


If you bogey out a hole, you write down 4,5, or 6 depending on par; the reason why you need course information to keep score.  Or you can simple write down +1 on scorecard.  Golf Companion uses latter method to keep the score; I found this way is easier and simpler.

What is it?

Basically, Golf Companion is a golf score tracking app, so it provides full range of score tracking functions.


  1. -Keep your and your golf buddies’ scores, handicap (Lite

  version can keep two players’ scores per round)

  1. -Keep courses and rounds

  2. -View round scores by courses, buddies

  3. -Trend indicator who is hot or falling

  4. -Keep handicap history

  5. -Support multiple teeing box within a round

  6. -Email round score

Score Tracking

By default, Golf Companion keeps the following general statistics.

  1. -Each round’s stroke, differential and handicap

  2. -Statistics per par:  par information is recommended


If you choose to keep detail statistics, you can turn on “keep stat” option from buddy editing screen.  If you turn on this option (Paid version only):

  1. -Each hole’s fairway hit, GIR, sand & save, up & down, putt

  2. -View statistics with charts

  3. -View statistics based on recent 3, 5, 10, 20 rounds or all rounds

Statistics

  1. -Colored circles around you: red for 100, white for 150, blue for 200

  2. -Drop yardage for exact distance to a point

  3. -Compass view (rotate map) to help find green

* Internet Connection Required

GPS*

If your phone is iPhone 4 and using OS 4.0 or higher, Golf Companion enables GPS HUD (Head-Up Display) view.  The app uses magnetometer (compass) and GPS combination to display yardages in real view.


To activate HUD view, touch HUD button on right side of upper screen from GPS view when HUD mode is set to manual (default).  If you set HUD mode to automatic, you just need to face camera to a target (hold your phone portrait up).


  1. -Display yardages on camera view

  2. -Allow changes colors of yardages in case of hard-to-read due to background

  3. -Visor for sunny sky: better readability for yardages placed on sky

  4. -Adjust camera angle or facing alignment

  5. -Zoom in and out

  6. -Zoning adjustments to compensate compass offsets when iPhone is upright position

Experimental Feature

Break Reader

Putting Metronome

  1. -Place the phone on green to read green break

  2. -Display break with arrow and numbers

  1. -Set BPM (bits per minute) to your tempo

  2. -Practice along with the animated putter

Why HUD is an experimental feature?

First of all, I found that magnetometer is not accurate when iPhone is portrait-up position.  I tried to use zoning adjustment to fix this problem.  Another problem is memory usage.  Displaying yardages and rotating map on camera view requires lots of memory.  I tried on iPhone 3GS, but it didn’t work out due to not enough memory.  It works without any problem on iPhone 4.


Despite of the problems, I think it is too cool to be deleted and I put lots of efforts on it.  This is the reason why I include it on Golf Companion.  You can try it just for fun or show up; maybe you found it very useful.

The Lite version of Golf Companion has the following differences

  1. -You can add only two players per round

  2. -Detail statistics (fairway hit, GIR, sand & save, up & down, putt) and charts are not available

  3. -Advertisement

LITE version 

Lite Version Available

Full version

Lite version