TeeShot 1.7 is coming along well and I figured now would be a great time to give you a preview of some of the features that are coming. Most of these are near the top of the request list so thanks for all of the great feedback and keep it coming.
- Sand Saves and Up & Down Tracking - There is a new option in the hole scoring page and in group scoring that lets you track sand saves and up & downs. They also show up in statistics for both the round and overall stats.
- Historical Graphs - You can now see a graph of your performance at a course or on a hole. You need to have at least two values for it to show up (a graph of one number is — not very interesting) but then you can see how your scores have progressed over time.
- Email scorecard - You can email the scorecard for a round to the players or to anyone you want. The scorecard includes the key stats for the round for each player including strokes, putts, penalties, up&downs and sand saves.
- Round and Hole Notes - you can add notes about the round or a specific hole. You can record weather information, course conditions or the reason behind that double bogey (a coyote stole my ball - seriously!)
- Updated Scorecard - The scorecard page now shows squares and circles around bogies and birdies
- More statistics - highest/lowest scores are now for 9 and 18 hole courses, percentages for fairway and GIR in round totals, up & downs, sand saves
- User Pictures - If the player was created from the address book, we show their user picture if it was set in both the player list and the round.
There is still a bit more work to do, then some localization and beta testing but it’s on the way. As always, feedback welcome. Screenshots coming soon.
-Chris
Can’t believe that all this stuff is coming right at us. Good work and well appreciated.
By: Paul on September 30, 2008
at 11:07 am
I’m excited to see these updates…especially the email scorecard option!
By: Sean on September 30, 2008
at 8:23 pm
Thanks for the constant work!
However, I don’t see why you should have sand saves and up and downs on the group scoring page, when you can’t track fairway hits.
The scorecard e-mail option sounds sweet.
I still love the app though!
I’d love to have the chance to add the birdie maker pics of the courses and measure the distances from there, or have the functionality of caddy.me lite introduced, but all the extra GPS functionality is way down my priority list.
By: Jonny8 on October 1, 2008
at 8:43 am
This list looks very good. Will you also add as an option for shot results:
- sand trap
- water
And sorting the list becuase of how long it is?
Thanks
By: John in FL on October 1, 2008
at 9:37 am
Jonny8, fairways will also be in the group scoring page.
John, bunker is actually already one of the options but I can add Water and Hazard.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 1, 2008
at 10:28 am
can u add rough to the results page, so if I hit the ball straight but it roles through the fairway I don’t have to put right or left down.
Thanks for all your hard work
Kevin
By: kevin on October 1, 2008
at 2:06 pm
very cool stuff. although i have 2 suggestions. one, i really like the club averages in the stats. is there a way to have a button on the bottom or top of the screen that when you click on it, it would bring up a screen with your club averages on it, and then a close button that takes you back to the previous screen?? and two, turning your iphone/ipod landscape at any point/any screen in a round to see the “score card”??
By: Zack on October 1, 2008
at 6:06 pm
Hi Kevin, I’ll take a look at adding that one too as long as I’m in there.
Zack, I will take a look at these options as well. The scorecard is pretty easy to get to from the current round button but I’ll definitely look into some other options.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 1, 2008
at 10:45 pm
Well all this is fine… Adding up new functionalities is fine. But right now this software costs 15 bucks and is still unusable as the metric system is not well implemented yet. When creating a course, one should be able to select if the distances are in Yards or meters, and then the software should convert those distances to take into account the user’s preferences. This should not take so long to develop and was asked for along long time ago…
By: Regis on October 2, 2008
at 1:23 am
i just figure, if you can go to landscape view, then you can have a more “traditional” score card view making it easier to read since you can see all 18 holes…
By: Zack on October 2, 2008
at 6:05 am
Zack, even in landscape mode, a scorecard that shows all 18 holes is pretty tiny. You would either need to scroll still, or it would be unreadable by most users. That said, I think you will like some of the new scorecard stuff that is coming in 1.7.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 2, 2008
at 8:26 pm
Regis, the list above is not everything that is coming in TeeShot 1.7. There are still some other pretty exciting things in the works and I am working on better metric support.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 2, 2008
at 8:27 pm
I’m glad to see the kinds of changes that are coming. One of lingering complaints about inputing information is that shot results page only allows one input. For example, if I hit a shot short and into a bunker, I have to choose between “short” and “bunker”. I also note a big difference between short right and just “short” or “right”.
I’d love to see directional results separated from the lie results. Perhaps directional results could be inputed with directional buttons–perhaps a grid of 8 lateral/diagonal buttons with a target hit (fairway/green) button in the middle, depending on the type of shot. Then a lie results, such as bunker, water, etc. could be a row of buttons below.
While I’m on the topic, I’d also love to input along with results the type of shot attempted: full, 3/4, 1/2, punch, pitch, chip, flop. Perhaps if this were available, you wouldn’t have to characterize shots between the tee and green as 1st fairway, 2nd fairway, approach, and chip. Begin with the tee, go to the next, input the shot type, and when the green gets hit, the putting inputs begin.
I’m probably suggesting too much detail, but I can’t help but imagine how I would design it if I worked with you. That said, I really appreciate what you’ve done.
By: John ABQ on October 4, 2008
at 3:09 pm
Thank you.
I was looking forward to adding notes.
By: Takehi on October 5, 2008
at 4:52 am
Thanks John ABQ,
I agree that TeeShot’s shot results can be improved. Splitting out direction from result would definitely help. Shot shape is another interesting thing to track (draw, fade, slice, etc). While I’m not making big changes to this in 1.7, it is definitely a great place to update in a release after that.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 5, 2008
at 9:34 am
Hey Chris,
Actually I’d like to get statistics for the other players as well. I often play with my gf and she’d like to know her putts per hole as well.
And what about putts per green in regulation?
Thanks for your effort!
By: Jonny8 on October 7, 2008
at 4:02 am
Chris, can you please add in the ability for us to edit the date of a round? there are old rounds prior to teeshot that i want to add to the app but it always assigns the current date. please let us edit the date for a round. thanks.
By: Eric on October 10, 2008
at 7:41 pm
Chris, also, i have NOT documented distances for any of my shots, however in the statistics screen i’m seeing a Driver average number of 285. Where is that coming from if I haven’t documented anything. I checked the data and i don’t have any drives specified.
By: Eric on October 10, 2008
at 8:05 pm
Hi Eric,
First, you can edit the date of a round by going to the Round Details page and tapping the Edit button in the top right corner. Then you can tap the start or end date of the round and change it to whatever you want.
As for your driver average, it gets that by looking at the distances that have been tagged on any shot whose club was set to Driver. If you can’t find it in any of your shots, let me know.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 10, 2008
at 8:13 pm
I’ve also noticed when scrolling through a round, almost always i always wind up editing a hole unintentionally. Is there any way you can give us a feature to “lock down” a round once it’s finished to prevent unintentional changes to the data? We should only be allowed to change the data for a locked round if we explicitly “unlock” the round. hope that makes sense.
By: Eric on October 10, 2008
at 8:30 pm
Yep, makes a lot of sense. It is on my feature request list for a future release.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 10, 2008
at 8:37 pm
I love teeshot, I believe it’sHelping me identify what I need to improve. I’m looking forward to release 1.7. What date do you expect it to be released?
By: James on October 11, 2008
at 6:01 am
Hi Chris,
Just purchased teeshot, looking really good. Ive added as many uk courses as possible today. Is there a way where you can add a group of courses as apposed to 1 at a time?
Can’t wait to get out there using this.
Thanks for a great application. I’ll be sure to pass onto the rest of my golfing buddies!
Cheers Simon
By: Simon on October 11, 2008
at 11:12 am
James, I am hoping to upload TeeShot version 1.7 to Apple within the next week. It is currently in beta.
Simon, currently you can only download one course at a time but I’ll add that request to the feature request list.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 11, 2008
at 11:17 am
Just used the app for the first time - worked well, better than I had anticipated, very impressed - couple of comments:
1) Am 24 handicap, on handicap 7 hole I get 2 shots - is this correct? Seems to happen for all over 18 handicappers.
2) Could you gather on-going stats for all listed players.
By: Paul on October 12, 2008
at 1:53 am
thanks chris. Just a couple of things that I would like to see. Average score on par 3,4,5 on each different course. Statistics to have 2 columns, comparing all rounds to last 5 played.
Thanks
James
By: James on October 12, 2008
at 6:55 am
Paul, the number of strokes you get on each hole is based on your course handicap. Depending on how hard the course is (slope and rating) it will either be a bit above or below your handicap index. It sounds like the course you’re playing on is a little tougher than average.
We are regularly adding more stats and the next version includes an option for uploading your rounds to a service that provides even more statistics. Stay tuned for more details on that
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 12, 2008
at 9:52 am
Hi Chris:
re: tracking up & downs, what I would be interested in is tracking scrambling, not just up & downs. Scrambling is easy to track using the data already collected by TeeShot, but up & downs would require more data to be entered. The less data I have to enter to get the statistics I am looking for the better
Jesse
By: Jesse Helmer on October 13, 2008
at 12:24 pm
Hi Chris, looking forward to the updates. Do you think that we could have an option to hide your progressive score until either you have finished 9 or 18 holes. Reason being I was using the app on the weekend and happened to notice my score with a few shots to go. anyway I was aiming for a certain score and ended up choking as a result of thinking about the final score…… it could just be a setting in the preferences bit. otherwise love the app.
By: Russell on October 13, 2008
at 2:52 pm
Hi Russell,
I’ll think about that, but remember — golf is at least 50% mental. I wonder if I can add some features to help develop that side of the game.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 13, 2008
at 5:03 pm
yep, well said.
By: Russell on October 13, 2008
at 6:54 pm
curious if you will add ability to see other players stats. for example i can see my fairway percentages for all rounds, but cannot do that for players for which i also keep track of on my iphone app. Thanks!
By: jesus martin on October 13, 2008
at 7:47 pm
Hi Jesus,
You can view round statistics for any player but not overall stats - that is reserved for the main player. Folks should let me know if you think this is high priority. Some of the stats related to shots are only available for the main user because only that user can do shot by shot scoring but the other stats could be gathered.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 14, 2008
at 11:27 am
Hi Chris,
I am a bit confused about your answer to Paul about the course handicap. Is there a way to switch that off? Normally you would only use the CSS in competitions and the CSS would be calculated on the day based on the SSS and the results. For normal rounds I have never used the SSS. It is probably good for comparing rounds but I would like to have the option of ignoring it.
Btw. it would be nice to be able to delete data for a complete hole and not just one shot. It would also be nice if you could ‘move’ data from one hole to another.
Last weekend I skipped one hole by accident and then had to write down all the data on a sheet of paper, delete every shot on every hole and everything by hand again.
Okay it was my fault in the beginning but if there is an easy way to implement a move (e.g. edit the hole number) it would be good to have.
By: Immo on October 15, 2008
at 3:54 am
How about the shot average of all rounds, and the ability to delete a round, thanks again for the great job Chris.
By: Mike on October 15, 2008
at 12:36 pm
Mike you can delete rounds already. Tap the Edit button on the Rounds list, then hit the - button next to the one you want to delete and tap delete. The same thing works for deleting courses, players, tees, etc.
When you say shot average, do you mean average score across all rounds?
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 15, 2008
at 2:54 pm
Hi Immo,
if you want to avoid the course handicap calculation, you can just subtract your handicap index from your total score.
I’ll take a look into making it easier to move scores around - or perhaps even better - let you know if you are scoring a hole when the one before is still blank
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 15, 2008
at 3:01 pm
Ok, thank you Chris I just saw it, and for the average yep the average score across all rounds, example …. in 15 rounds your average 84.
By: Mike on October 15, 2008
at 7:35 pm
Mike, many courses are a little different in par, so an average score might be misleading (I’ve played a bunch of par 70 or 71 courses) but perhaps an average score relative to par would be a good indication.
Once you factor in the relatively difficulty of courses, though, you’re pretty close to what the handicap index gives you.
By: teeshotlive on October 15, 2008
at 8:30 pm
Chris, is there any way you can put the feature request list on your website so we can have an idea of what is coming in the future.
By: John Paul on October 16, 2008
at 3:34 pm
Chris, best product out there for the iphone. I show this too other golfers and now they want an iphone. Great new features with version 1.6 and can’t wait for the next version.
Suggestions, can you have an automatic calculator built in to the Drives for yardage, please. I spend alot of time switching to calculator for my yardage. If a hole is 572 yards and I have 328 to the hole, what is my yardage? I know it is a small thing but it would add to your great product.
Is there thought about downloading your handicap to your homecourse or website. I am from Northern California and I would think that if I can add my round to the NCGA through the internet then the next step is get the iphone to do it.
Keep up the great work, I am loving it.
By: Jack Kristensen on October 16, 2008
at 5:57 pm
Chris, one more thing. I keep on getting booted out of the program. It happened 5 times last round and 4 times the previous round. I never lose my info and when I return it returns me to the last entry. Though you would like too know. Even it booted me out 10 times I would still love the product.
I noticed on your write up on what is happening with version 1.7. For pictures I take with the iphone can it be linked to my scorecard? I would love to view each of my rounds with a my photo op.
Great feature with downloading my rounds as a backup to your site. Again great product Chris, keep it up!
By: Jack Kristensen on October 16, 2008
at 6:03 pm
Hi Chris, the handicap Teeshot gives me with 14 rounds played is 9.5, but I compared it with two other different programs to calculate handicap and both gives me 14 .4, may be something there..
Thank you Chris.
By: Mike on October 19, 2008
at 7:38 am
Hi - thanks for your response re: handicaps etc:
I was curious as I didn’t enter any slope or rating - but I see it defaulted some numbers. But agree with Immo - can an option be available to ignore the course rating?
Further point;
I think it would be good to be able to view and alter player handicaps during and after a round.
And on your earlier point:
‘You can view round statistics for any player but not overall stats ….. Folks should let me know if you think this is high priority.’
Yes - this feature would be great!!
Great stuff though - best app I have on my iPhone - if only I could get out and play more!
By: Paul on October 19, 2008
at 9:39 am
The slope and rating default to “average” values which shouldn’t impact your handicap one way or the other but accurate values for the courses will end up giving you an accurate view of your handicap index.
We use the standard USGA handicap calculations as described on about.com (http://golf.about.com/cs/handicapping/a/howcalculated.htm). In 1.7, we are adding the first of our online partners that allows you to upload your round to their service and get an official USGA handicap index. More on that very soon.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 19, 2008
at 4:48 pm
Hi Chirs
In relation with slope and rating I start using the apllicationa and I do not have the slope/rating reference for the course I play every week. After several rounds played I tried to edit the past rounds and update the values but seems that is not possible. Do you plan to add this option for future release. It is important in order to get the real actual handicap. One more question, I have 8 rounds played and statistics still shows not enough round to calculete the Handicap. How many rounds are required to shows the actual handicap?
By: Fernando O on October 20, 2008
at 10:25 am
Hi Fernando,
Yes, I will make it possible to edit the slope and rating for a round. In fact, I will do do that right now so it should be in 1.7.1.
You need to have at least five full 18 hole rounds for the handicap to be calculated.
-Chris
By: teeshotlive on October 20, 2008
at 12:04 pm
thanks Chris. I already have 8 complted rounds of 18 holes and still not getting the handicap
By: Fernando O on October 20, 2008
at 6:41 pm