GHIN Hack 5.3.1 + Redeem Codes

I have a soft cap on my handicap. I believe it is a result of one great round I played at my home course in August. That dropped my index way down. It’s a little disappointing that my index is being constricted because of that. You know it is possible to have one good day on the links in an entire year. Especially if you were a very good golfer at one point in your life. It’s still in there. I just can’t get it to come out nearly as often as I would like. Quite honestly, it’s embarrassing ring the index I am. But it’s what I am. I’m getting older. Can’t hit it as far or as straight. My body doesn’t always cooperate. Can’t practice as much as I would like because of my back. Wish the system could take everything into consideration.

The app for the phone is amazing. I love that it keeps handicap, has enhanced GPS, has heat and putt maps, stat tracking, handicap calculator, etc…. One major flaw is that with the Apple Watch, the GPS still uses yardage from your phone. So, sorry for you if it’s cart path only. Sorry if your partner drops you and takes the cart. The watch app is also constantly closing on your wrist, so, reopening and having to allow it to calibrate again is annoying. GHIN needs to take a note from Hole19 and GolfShot and allow the watch app to utilize the watch GPS on GPS mode only, this way, your watch shows accurate yardage. I find that the biggest difference is the other apps allow Apple Watch with GPS to use the watches GPS and stay open for the full round (phone or not) by utilizing the health app. I use the phone for approaches and around the greens (mainly when we are driving to an approach shot and/or parking to walk to putt and wanting to see the green slopes), then I leave my phone in the cart and I use GolfShot for my watch GPS.

Enjoy the app, though only use for keeping score and then post-round posting. Agree with other comments that it’s a nuisance having to re-click “GHIN” to have it reappear on the face after lowering hand. Biggest gripe, though, is that the user should be able to change face element colors—such as to white background with dark lettering. That, or make the hole being played white lettering (or some other higher contrast color, such as bright yellow). Right now “Hole” appears as gray on a black background in a smaller font size. In bright daylight, this is VERY difficult to clearly see—particularly if one is older and needs “readers” (that I don’t wear while playing golf).

Ok

I love the app for the ease of scoring and the GPS function, when it works. So much to possibly like, but…..

There is no way to use the score/scorecard function without using GPS….
But why wouldn’t you want that??
Because, the GPS is so poorly designed my fully charged phone usually doesn’t make it through 18 holes without running the battery down (iPhone 12 pro with battery effiecency of 88%)
AND….
My local private club, a Pete dye course, has the wrong gps course attached, so the GPS is worthless. I have submitted two feedback forms to the app, with no response and no change. Nothing like being on the 4th hole (par 5) of a championship course and it saying you are 2357 yards away from the 5th hole of the non rated executive course.
But, they have the scorecard correct. Just asleep at the wheel…

Then, my son and I started to play 18 on Sunday evening but decided to stop at 9 holes instead. Well, when scoring for multiple people there is no way to end the round early and post only the 9 holes…. Again, do the developers or employees not use the app??

Every time you boot the app and try and play it tries to get you to pay $40 a year for more features, but the basics don’t even work.

Don’t get me wrong, I really like some aspects, but I assumed with the USGA name in this that the basics would work and they would have some basic supports.

I enjoy the concept of the app and not having to manually enter hole by hole scores after each round or carry a rangefinder. However there are bugs which hinder the functionality of the app.

1. After each hole or shot in need to reopen the app on the watch to enter scores or get a distance. Last year I used GolfLogix and this was not an issue. GolfLogix stayed open and active on my watch the entire round.

2. Yardage distance does not always update on the watch this issue appeared occur off and on. Often after reopening the app on my watch (see #1) the distance on my watch would read as if I’m standing on tee, but I’m only 100 yards away from green. I would go to the phone app which would confirm I’m 100 yards from the green. The value of the watch app is not having to mess with my phone during the round.

3. Not all scores entered on the watch transfer to to the phone app scorecard. After the round I review the scorecard before posting my score. 3-4 holes did not have recorded scores entered though the watch. I needed to manually enter the score for those holes on the phone scorecard in the app before posting the scorecard.

The app has great potential but these issues need corrected for the app to remain viable.

There is no feature to configure what stats should be tracked. Other apps offer a means to select which stats are important to you. Like bunkers (green side and fairway), penalties and others. Simply recording how you missed the fairway or the green doesn’t always tell the whole story. Also, if you start a round from a hole other than 1, it doesn’t let you proceed past 18. You have to arrow backwards to find hole 1. This is cumbersome on the golf course.

GHIN should partner with other better apps so scores can be input from them. GolfLogix is my personal favorite. This way you could choose the app that serves you best. They, of course, could even require part of the app fee be shared with them for maintaining usga handicaps. Golflogix is not perfect, but much better than the ghin app. Unfortunately I’m stuck with the ghin app to maintain my handicap.

I have upgraded to use the enhanced features of the app and I am still encountering issues when using the watch. The most annoying issue is that the watch will periodically disconnect from the phone app during a round and it is difficult to get the phone and watch re-synced. I like the options available to track shots during a round, but I don’t like losing the shot data for half a round because the app needs to be restarted on its own terms. It’s a little too buggy for me. I wish the support was better as well. I won’t be renewing the subscription features unless they can get the app debugged before my subscription renewal.

When the app works it’s very, very good. Awesome app for tracking your handicap and looking up others. The concept of the GPS app is very solid, would be amazing if it worked. Sadly, it does not in many ways called out by others in reviews. You tee off to play and the app is signed out, won’t sign back in, had to change my password while trying to play the other day. That was enjoyable, forget the Apple Watch interface, changes holes throughout your round.

I paid for the upgrade options, in doing so I did have a basic expectation that the app would work. It does not, feel ripped off and not willing to go through what I am sure will be a massive hassle to get a refund. USGA should be ashamed of yourself, looks like from many reviews they think all is good. A real shame, could be a really good product.

The basic app is great for inputing scores for handicap calculations and golfer lookup , etc. since this part is basically supported by the yearly fee for the GHIN , it’s worth that portion of it. However, the $39 for the annual upgrade is a waste. The functionality of the gps and scoring functions are crude when compared to less expensive and much more robust apps like Golfshot +, etc. Considering the amount of data that the USGA has on each golf course, one would think the app would reflect it. The bug when using the Apple Watch feature has been well documented by others in this forum but it’s is amazing that this hasn’t even been fixed in the well over a year since the gps portion of the app came out. I will not be renewing next month when it comes due.

I have consistently had problems with the GHIN app shutting down during my rounds. Sometimes I can restart at the point it shutdown, but sometimes I have to restart from the beginning. I have written multiple times to the USGA providing screenshots showing the sequence of events and they just reply sorry we can’t replicate which I can understand, but other times I get an instant reply which indicates they haven’t even bothered to review what I have provided. They seem to be more interested in making enhancements than fixing problems. I have other friends having the same issues but don’t bother sharing but just complain. As a paid subscriber it bothers me they don’t care about customer support! If you want people to use it get it fixed!