- Jul 1, 2015
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Got a chance to play golf with the new Microsoft band tile(or app) today. Once you find and load your course to the band you no longer need your phone. I loaded my course the night before. When I got in my cart today all I had to do was start the golf app on my Band.
Yardage: The band only tells you yardage if you push the action button but was pretty quick to load and give yardage. In fact I began pushing the button when I stopped the cart and when I got out and by my clubs would look and the yardage was there. This keeps the battery from running down by constantly displaying yardage. The yardage seems spot on. In fact it rained and was very cloudy but the yardage seemed to still be very accurate. In fact it seemed better than yardage I get from golf shot on my iPhone.
Shot tracking:
The Band keeps track of every shot you take. For full shots, chips, and long putts it seems to do a great job. Where it lacks of course is short putts and tap ins. Part of this might be my fault I will put tap ins with my right hand only and I wear my band on the left. It is very easy to correct by swiping left or right to correct the score. Very impressed with this feature didn't seem to count any practice strokes as shots. Only problem I saw was one or twice I was practicing my stroke away from the hole and it seemed to record a stroke for those times. Once you step on the next tee box you will get a vibration and the hole info will pull up as well as score for last hole.
Analytics:
More will be done with this once Taylor made gets the myround pro up and running. Right now it tracks pace per hole and round. Heart rate per hole and average for round. Steps and calories are also tracked. Once my round pro is up and running you will be able to track shot distance as well as location of each shot.
Overall:
Very impressed excited to see what is added once the my round pro from Taylor made is added. I was able to play 16 holes and it did not seem to overwhelm the battery. I have tried golfshot and golf card with pebble(Apple watch). With the pebble(Apple watch) you have to have your phone with you at all times for yardage to be correct. Also at the end of the round my iPhone battery would be dead. I would constantly have to refresh my iPhone to get good yardages. With the band just a touch of the action button and a few seconds later I received very accurate yardage front, back and middle. No phone required. Overall it's very easy to use and quite impressive for a first attempt from a new product.
Pros:
Easy to use
Shot tracking
Heart rate tracking
Don't have to use your phone
Analytics (we will have to wait to see how good this is)
Good yardages
Cons:
You have to push button to get yardage.
Not all putts counted accurately
Not all courses available. But you can request courses.
Only US And UK courses
Yardage: The band only tells you yardage if you push the action button but was pretty quick to load and give yardage. In fact I began pushing the button when I stopped the cart and when I got out and by my clubs would look and the yardage was there. This keeps the battery from running down by constantly displaying yardage. The yardage seems spot on. In fact it rained and was very cloudy but the yardage seemed to still be very accurate. In fact it seemed better than yardage I get from golf shot on my iPhone.
Shot tracking:
The Band keeps track of every shot you take. For full shots, chips, and long putts it seems to do a great job. Where it lacks of course is short putts and tap ins. Part of this might be my fault I will put tap ins with my right hand only and I wear my band on the left. It is very easy to correct by swiping left or right to correct the score. Very impressed with this feature didn't seem to count any practice strokes as shots. Only problem I saw was one or twice I was practicing my stroke away from the hole and it seemed to record a stroke for those times. Once you step on the next tee box you will get a vibration and the hole info will pull up as well as score for last hole.
Analytics:
More will be done with this once Taylor made gets the myround pro up and running. Right now it tracks pace per hole and round. Heart rate per hole and average for round. Steps and calories are also tracked. Once my round pro is up and running you will be able to track shot distance as well as location of each shot.
Overall:
Very impressed excited to see what is added once the my round pro from Taylor made is added. I was able to play 16 holes and it did not seem to overwhelm the battery. I have tried golfshot and golf card with pebble(Apple watch). With the pebble(Apple watch) you have to have your phone with you at all times for yardage to be correct. Also at the end of the round my iPhone battery would be dead. I would constantly have to refresh my iPhone to get good yardages. With the band just a touch of the action button and a few seconds later I received very accurate yardage front, back and middle. No phone required. Overall it's very easy to use and quite impressive for a first attempt from a new product.
Pros:
Easy to use
Shot tracking
Heart rate tracking
Don't have to use your phone
Analytics (we will have to wait to see how good this is)
Good yardages
Cons:
You have to push button to get yardage.
Not all putts counted accurately
Not all courses available. But you can request courses.
Only US And UK courses
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