V1 Game app

[MTgolfer]

I just came across this app yesterday and it looks great. As far as I can tell, it looks like Arccos minus the club sensors. I tried garmin sensors at one time and just didn’t like having them on my clubs. I loved the stats though. 
 

I watched quite a few of the tutorials on YouTube and when paired with an Apple Watch it looks like club tracking will be easy. And with the watch I can leave my phone in my bag, which I much prefer. 
 

Does anyone have any feedback on this? I would love to hear about anyone’s experience with this. 

[Sons_of_Pitches]

I use it and really like it.  So much so I actually purchased a subscription.  That said, I don't care for the club tracking though.  I found it to be a little too distracting having to remember to tell it which club I used after every shot so I disabled that feature.  Everything else about it works great.  The shots gained is really good as well.  Takes a couple rounds to get used to understand how everything is supposed to work and to make any corrections if/when needed.  Overall two thumbs up for me!       

[MTgolfer]

Nice. Good to hear. I had a Garmin watch for some time and really liked the club tracking. I agree it was weird at first to be prompted about it all the time and it took some post round editing to get it right, but I got to really like it and the insight into my clubs. Since that watch died, I have been wanting to have that ability, but with the Apple watch I use now. I'll give V1 a try for a while and see how I like it. 

[brentdtw]

On 2/18/2021 at 9:41 PM, Sons_of_Pitches said:

I use it and really like it.  So much so I actually purchased a subscription.  That said, I don't care for the club tracking though.  I found it to be a little too distracting having to remember to tell it which club I used after every shot so I disabled that feature.  Everything else about it works great.  The shots gained is really good as well.  Takes a couple rounds to get used to understand how everything is supposed to work and to make any corrections if/when needed.  Overall two thumbs up for me!       

 

On 2/25/2021 at 1:29 PM, MTgolfer said:

Nice. Good to hear. I had a Garmin watch for some time and really liked the club tracking. I agree it was weird at first to be prompted about it all the time and it took some post round editing to get it right, but I got to really like it and the insight into my clubs. Since that watch died, I have been wanting to have that ability, but with the Apple watch I use now. I'll give V1 a try for a while and see how I like it. 

Can you use it without a watch? Tag your location in the phone app after each shot?

[Sons_of_Pitches]

Yes, you can use it w/o a watch.  Here is a link with the details on how to use tge app.  There are also some YouTube videos as well.

 

https://help.v1sports.com/en/articles/4112475-how-to-track-shots-with-v1-game

[LBB]

I finally decided to ditch my Garmin Vivoactive and move to an apple watch (this was more of a smart watch decision than a golf decision) and going to give the V1 Game app a try.  I watched almost all the tutorials on the V1 Game app and I really like the concept that lets you choose how much attention you want to pay to shot tracking during the round, while still having ability to piece everything back together post round using their AI and breadcrumbs.

 

I always had trouble managing penalty shots, and marking "recovery shots" post round and this app seems to have that process dialed in.  Watching the tutorials, I wouldn't say it's "easy", but something you can manage if the tracking mattered to you.  Trying to reorganize shots on the Garmin app was beyond frustrating, to the point where I didn't even bother.

 

If this doesn't work out, I may go down the Arccos route, but I'd rather avoid the sensors if I can.  V1 Game par or birdie subscription will probably do the job for me, and is much cheaper than the Arccos subscription after the free trial is done.

 

I'll have more feedback in a few weeks once I get a few rounds in.

[LBB]

First round with app and watch was overload and too much to manage while playing.  I thought I could handle the tracking of clubs after each shot, but when I forgot, it totally messed me up as I just wanted to get back to the screen that told me front/middle/back distances.  Will try again with no club prompting and all the editing done post round, which I hope will improve my experience.

 

The tutorial videos make it seem easy to add and reorganize shots post round.  It's probably a learning curve, but I couldn't even get past one hole post round editing before I quit.  Might have gotten screwed up by my entries of data during the round.

 

The good news is that as a GPS watch, it worked fine compared to my previous Garmin Vivoactive, and I still had 50% battery left on my apple watch series 7 after the round was done, and it was a nearly 5 hour round.  I was worried it would be closer to 15-20% given the 7ish hour GPS battery apple claims. 

 

I was also glad it did have the feature of tracking distance from the last shot, which always comes in handy when searching for an errant tee shot you didn't see land.  Had the "I don't see your ball here, I think it went in the bushes" comment from my cart mate...looked at my watch and realized we were only 175 yards from the tee...didn't waste any time searching that area where he stopped the cart and walked further and sure enough my ball was safe...LOL.

 

I will say though that there were times where the GPS yardage was off compared to laser...but that's a known thing with GPS (both phone and watch), and I had similar instances where laser was off compared to my Garmin or other phone gps apps.  It's not an issue with V1 Game's app...just a known limitation with consumer level GPS.

[ParHunter]

I assume that this app is not legal to use during a competition?

[LBB]

2nd round…just using the watch/app for yardages and post hole score entry, then post round club entry. 
 

Boom…this is exactly what I want. Love it. 

[agolfman]

Forgot I had this app and haven’t used in two years…will give this another shot this season and probably try to make the Apple Watch integration work, which I didn’t before.