AccelGolf

Newcomers to the AccelGolf application might be a little surprised when they take a look at our scorecards. Unlike traditional paper scorecards, we track your score by recording the lie of each stroke. Every time you swing the club and hit the ball, you record on your mobile device (or the web scorecard) where you hit the ball from. This simple change allows us to calculate in-depth statistics for you without asking any further questions. With this information we can provide you with your Greens In Regulation, Sand Save Ratio, Handicap, and many other PGA tracked statistics that help you drill into your game.

Symbols

Each stroke in our system is represented by the first letter:

T

Tee

F

Fairway

R

Rough

G

Green

S

Sand Trap

P

Penalty

Note: Stokes from the fringe of the rough/fairway should be recorded as a fairway shot. Similarly strokes from the fringe of the rough/green should be recorded as a green shot.

Recording Strokes

• BlackBerry

  

  On the blackberry, use the keys T, R, F, G, S, and P to enter your stroke lies.

• iPhone

  

  On the iPhone, press the Tee button to record your tee shot and start the hole. Then press the label correlating to each stroke.

• Web Scorecard

  

  When entering or editing scores on the website you can navigate using the mouse or keyboard arrows. You can then use the mouse to select the appropriate button or the letters T, R, F, G, S, and P on the keyboard to enter each stroke.

If you need any help or assistance, you can ask in the forums or contact us via support@accelgolf.com. In our next post, we'll be explaining what the statistics we track mean and how they can help you understand more about your game.

Have a great game,
The AccelGolf Team

For many of you the golf season is starting to wind down, but for us, things are starting to heat up.

The passion you have demonstrated for the greatest sport in the world has astonished us. Over 6,000 courses have been mapped in 52 countries, and over 2 million strokes have been recorded in just 3 months. In the past month, we've been making a lot of changes to the site, and we've heard a lot of questions. We've been experimenting, asking where we can improve, and listening to feedback. We are positive that we've hit upon the right formula to help build the best golf community online.

Lets dive into what's new:

New Design

We are proud to announce the new designs for our homepage, the forums, and statistics. We've organized sections of the website into more coherent tabs in an effort to make the website simpler to use. We aren't stopping there, and will be continuing to refine these pages and implement new designs. Keep an eye out for changes, and let us know what you think on the forums.

While you're on the site, make sure you check out the new statistics and rounds page. It has been completely overhauled to provide deeper analyses and a cleaner understanding of your golfing history.

Your New Golf Bag

The Equipment tab will allow you to create, rate, and customize your clubs. Future releases of our mobile applications will allow players to record which club they are using for each stroke. This information will then be fed back into AccelGolf and analyzed to generate statistics and reveal tendencies. You will be able to see how each club impacts your game, as well as accuracy trends. For premium account members your effectiveness with each particular club will define the kind of player you are, and further tailor the suggestions AccelGolf provides in reports.

The Target is a key aspect of our new Equipment system. It builds upon the rest of our statistics model by providing more detailed information to analyze. The Target records the result of your stroke in relation to your intended location. The result of this analysis is a detailed history of hitting patterns which can provide valuable insight into ways to improve your game. This information will also be used for club suggestion based not on intuition, but hard data.

As always, thank you for your continued feedback and support. We have many plans for this fall, and we hope you'll join us as we continue to build the best community of golfers in the world!

The AccelGolf Team