PGA Tour Shot Tracker Debut
There's a video posted at PGATour.com announcing what appears to be a new way to track players with Shotlink type information. And it's free. We'll see how much information it shares, but if it has some of ShotLink's data it ought to be a lot of fun to use.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 08:16 AM
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http://tinyurl.com/6otthd
Graphics are too convulated, too small, the replay mode (which was just added two weeks ago) is bad, the shot data is wrong a lot of the time, etcetcetc
One saving grace... its free.
Still would rather pay for Tourcast though.
I haven't done any beta testing of this service, but that's disappointing to hear it might suck.
and
http://pgatourusergroup.wordpress.com/
are two good reads, especially the first link.
They are the beta users responses to how the product was conducted. (note since the start of the beta, only two functions have been added, the "replay" mode and a group mode.)
-No audio notifications. How are you supposed to follow this?
-No ability to see how others have done on the hole (shot comparisons).
-Can't toggle to view the group ahead or behind.
-The course graphics are MUCH smaller and it makes finding the hole location difficult.
-No ability to toggle up and view the entire course at once.
-Can't "sit" on one hole and watch others play through.
-No little player icons that show when the player starts their swing/putt.
-No moving line of the ball path... rather a line just appears (with no sound).
-Can't click one button and watch a player's entire round from start to finish. Rather you have to click about 36 times to follow each shot.
It's funny how big corps like the PGATour will spin this as an "improvement" when we all really know this is a bigtime step backwards from TourCast.
Here's to watching less golf online.
-Steve (Atlanta)
Too bad really, Tourcast is miles above this product.