A Free App that’s better than most subscription apps!
I have been using this free golf GPS app on my Apple Watch Ultra for over 4 months now and it is amazingly reliable and accurate.
Not only are the app’s reported yardages at my home course spot on when tested against sprinkler-marked yardages, they have also never been more than +/- 1 yard different from the best handheld range finders on the market.
If you need more accurate front/ middle/ back yardages to greens than that, then you should be on tour with a professional caddie!
Other great features:
- I don’t have to run the app simultaneously on my iPhone, as the two GPS chips in the Apple Watch Ultra can handle all the heavy lifting without chewing up a lot of the watch’s battery.
- the app has never failed to locate and download another course I might be visiting.
- the app auto-progresses from hole to hole and the displayed yardages are large enough to be read easily.
- the app can also auto-detect a swing and measure shot distance (although this is, frankly, something I seldom use since I can do distance math in my head like the rest of the thinking world! Those same basic counting skills mean I also don’t need “scoring” features on a golf GPS app, especially since courses still have things like scorecards and pencils if I ever find to too difficult to keep track of my score in my head!)
All the features of Golf4Watch just work and are free. I repeat - FREE! Compare this app with other Apple Watch golf apps out there and see how much they charge for “premium features” or for monthly or manual subscriptions.
For me, I simply love being able to wear the same watch before, during, and after a round. I get all the functionality of my Apple Watch and a great and simple golf GPS in one device.
As a result, My Garmin S62 golf watch now sits unused in a desk drawer, hidden away so as not to visually taunt me for how much I paid for something that this little app does for free.
Get this, use it, and you’ll be happy.
Kudos to the developer for sharing it.