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madeirabhoy

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downloaded tag Heuer golf, seems good, but to use apple watch its €40 a year. not a huge amount I guess if I play every week, but any reccommendations that are better or cheaper.

all im looking for mainly is recording my 28 handicap score and tell me my points, but would be useful if it showed me yardage.
 
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Weirdly hole 19 hasn’t worked out well. I must have had a free trial before so when I went into it I had the choice of a premium membership for 8 euro a month or a lite wearables one for 3 I think. Chose the premium coz there’s then a yearly option that’s not much more than the monthly lite.

There’s no watch app included. I’m not sure if it’s meant to and something is wrong (I’ve gone to ios13 gm but watch is still is is 5) or the premium doesn’t include watch so I went back to select instead the lite wearables but it won’t do that until my month is up.

Shame as I want to compare it to tag hauer before I pay the yearly cost. The tag app is great for yardage and scoring but I wish it suggested a club.
 
in two minds. personally I found the tag app less annoying than hole19, but hole19 watch lite is only €3 a month so don't have to pay all in one go and still cheaper.

all im interested in is the watch bit, im not going to take my phone out so what that does is irrelevant to me.


both hole19 and tag are able to show yardage and log scores, and I guess that's all I need.
neither of them suggest a club (on the watch) which is a shame.
tag shows the map of the hole, hole19 just shows the yardage.
tag switches automatically to the right hole, hole19 doesn't but then it does force you to put in your score whereas the tag being more friendly you could forget as itll switch automatically when you walk to the next tee whereas with hole19 you are standing on a par 3 thinking 500m....ah ive not put in the last holes score.

THE most annoying thing about hole19 is no complication. with tag you can have a watchface with that as a complication. the best workaround for hole19 is to set the dock (which ive never used in 2 years) to sort by favourites and put it at the top. halfway round though i accidentally opened football365 and it went to the top of the list.

got another 3 free weeks of the months trial of hole19 see if it grows on me, if not its back to tag.
 
I have a question about either of the golf apps mentioned here. Do either of them "learn" your range with the clubs, ie. if you select a club, and go to where the ball lies, does it eventually "learn" your average distances of each club? Seems that would be really helpful.
 
I have a question about either of the golf apps mentioned here. Do either of them "learn" your range with the clubs, ie. if you select a club, and go to where the ball lies, does it eventually "learn" your average distances of each club? Seems that would be really helpful.
Short answer, no
 
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