Crazyface
Tour Winner
I know they are out there, but just how accurate are they? Could they be used to pin point you to within 5 meters on a golf course say?
Phone Tracking Apps
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Neilds
Assistant Pro
Trying to hide from the wife? 
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
They could never pinpoint you anywhere on our 1st (or a lot of it at least).
I think it depends on a lot of things. Atmospheric conditions certainly impact on GPS accuracy, and away from the golf course trackers are certainly less reliable in heavily built up areas.
But they’re pretty accurate. Just don’t rely on them to win an argument if someone claims they were somewhere the tracker says they weren’t.
But they’re pretty accurate. Just don’t rely on them to win an argument if someone claims they were somewhere the tracker says they weren’t.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Saw that coming. ... But I was wondering if it could be used to speed up play. The shop could monitor and ring any group that was showing signs of holding up pkayTrying to hide from the wife?
That would require members allowing club officers/staff access to track their movements. Okay on the course, in principle, but it would mean each individual remembering to turn location sharing on and off.
Unless of course people are happy allowing comparative strangers to monitor their whereabouts 24/7.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Was literally typing a response but……
You then beat me to it
Would be a terrible idea, Location sharing issues, allowing club access to track my
Movements and whatever else just to start with. Additional outside pressure of having someone track you that you don’t know or trust like a lost sheep on a course.
Would cause added issues of players constantly checking phones, if anything would add to slowing down play as well as applying additional unnecessary pressure. You could and would never be able to enforce it upon your own membership as it would require everyone’s permission to track them and be a great way to turn off visitors to wanting to play.
Plus you’d never get hold of me my phone lives on permanent silent mode so you have no chance of me answering a call on the course
upsidedown
Tour Winner
Pretty sure when we olayed the Old Course in March every group had to carry a gps tracker so technology is there but suspect too expensive for most clubs
We’ve certainly had it in buggies in Portugal, so it is practiced.
D-S
Well-known member
On Royal Marrakesh they clip them on to one of the trollies in every group, they are on all buggies anyway.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
That makes assumptions
1 Players have a smart phone
2. If they have one it is turned on (mine is always off during a round)
3. They have the app on their phone and I can see a lot of 'I am not doing that' and privacy issues.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Sure I get all the privacy stuff but you could turn off the tracking after you completed a round. It wouldn't bother me as I use my phone for gps distance etc so it's in and oit of my pocket all round...sometimes. Interesting to hear that some sort of tracking is being used even now.
kp17
Newbie
I remember playing on a course in Andtrax Spain there was a GPS box in the buggy and I asked the pro how it worked thinking it was on course like distances for your shots but it was because in between one of the greens and tee’s there was a wrong turn that basically took you down onto a motorway. Although heavily signposted he said more often than you would think especially guys on the drink ended up down there
Burnsey
Well-known member
Played a corporate event a couple of weeks ago and our buggy seemed to be dying. Plodding on when someone came out in another buggy and swapped us over because they knew its battery was nearly empty.
I wouldn’t let them track me on my own device, but I’d carry a club supplied tracking tag on my bag if it helped speed up play.
I wouldn’t let them track me on my own device, but I’d carry a club supplied tracking tag on my bag if it helped speed up play.
Robin Hood
Well-known member
There’s no way I would allow the club to willingly track me on the course.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Why, what are you doing???? Or would it be funny watching you zig zag down every fairway? LOL
Crazyface
Tour Winner
This could be fairly cheap way of doing a tracking thing. Only 18 devices required, well maybe 20. Not for every course, due to expense, but surely doable?
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
How do you figure only 18-20 would be required. That’s a quiet golf course , most clubs firing a weekend or comp with have more that 18 groups out playing. Would be quite a significant outlay to buy enough units to account for double that , plus a spares or repair contract and the software to run it.
I’m same I wouldn’t wanna allow anyone to track me out in the course same as I don’t when I’m away on holiday it’s my time to escape the world not be followed and policed
Neilds
Assistant Pro
We all knew you were on holiday
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Couldn’t track me thoughWe all knew you were on holiday
