– the pioneer of big data and Artificial Intelligence for golf – has announced a series of product innovations and platform extensions as it continues to leverage the power of its unrivalled and largest on-course dataset that now includes 700 billion data points and more than 625 million shots taken by Arccos users during over 13.5 million rounds.
At the turn of the last century, the Glamorganshire Golf Club never shied away from innovation. It gained an enviable reputation for shining a bright light for the development of golf in Wales. Being one of the earliest clubs to be founded in the Principality (1890), it was also the first to be established in the heartland of the industrial southeast.
Shot Scope (www.shotscope.com), a leading international manufacturer of GPS-based distance tracking and game performance systems, today introduced a branding and customization program for laser rangefinders.
There was no surprise when the Official World Golf Ranking body issued a statement today that stopped LIV Golf in its tracks with the plan to secure world ranking points via a partnership with the MENA Tour. It would have been astonishing if OWGR, which is partly controlled by the PGA and DP World Tours, had sat back and done nothing. The statement read as follows
Golfers using the most sophisticated shot tracking system in the game chose to play the highest number of 18-hole rounds in Britain at courses around London and the Southeast during the first half of this year, according to the pioneering Arccos dataset.
Fifteen years ago, as a 17-year-old amateur, Mina Harigae made her debut in the U.S. Women’s Open Presented by ProMedica at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club. While the week ended with a disappointing final-round 80, Harigae would use that experience to help her win the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links title a few weeks later and play on a victorious USA Curtis Cup Team the following year.
Arccos – the pioneer of big data and Artificial Intelligence for golf – today announced Strokes Gained by Club, a groundbreaking new feature that allows players to see which clubs in their bag are gaining or costing them strokes on the course, and to make more informed purchasing and set-up decisions via head-to-head product comparisons.
Sir Nick Faldo has announced his latest golf course design project at Golf de Val-Grand, his first ever in France, with aspirations to create an exciting country club venue with a premium academy facility.
Evnroll has unveiled “Midlock” for 2021 – a new full putter concept offering a streamlined and simplified version of the Armlock method.
Like a perfectly-timed finish by a thoroughbred racehorse, A Lim Kim delivered her challenge to storm to victory at the 75th U.S. Women’s Open. One moment she was two back from the leader and the next before Amy Olson and Jin Young Ko knew what had happened she had gone clear into an almost unassailable lead.
A rainy Sunday in southeast Texas caused the first weather-induced Monday finish in the U.S. Women’s Open since 2011. The organisers had moved up the tee times due to the forecast but shortly after the final round commenced the players were called in.
Nobody said winning a U.S. Women’s Open is easy. It’s a 72-hole test of nerves, pressure, tough course conditions and one of the best fields in golf. And when Mother Nature throws a curveball, the challenge only gets super-charged. A late Friday afternoon storm that dumped four-tenths of an inch of rain on Champions Golf Club turned Moving Day into a day of survival.
