Any good tips for scanning Golf Tags on the course?

Posted over 9 years ago by Bobby R.

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Bobby R.

I absolutely love the golf tags with Golf Pad, but hate how I look on the Tee box, sticking my club out perpindicular from my body, rubbing the butt of my club on my pocket, trying to find the NFC sweet spot.

I understand the difficulties with NFC as a technology in general, but I was wondering if anyone found a good way to get the tags to scan without looking so silly, or them being so fussy?

The worst is on the tee box when everyone is standing around watching. I've considered taking my driver golf tag off, and keeping it in the pocket opposite my phone so I can pull it out and tap it, instead of doing the club rub, golf tag dance.

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Vidar Nygaard posted over 9 years ago

When at tee I scan the club when I'm waiting for the other players to tee off. I don't have to do that on the tee? The same for the next shots. If I'm first I hit the ball and while waiting for the others to hit their balls I scan my club holding the phone to the club.

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Rob Litten posted over 9 years ago

Same here, I felt like I was constantly doing a golf club thigh bump multiple times to get the app to register the club. I took off the cover ad well. Bigger issue was with my galaxy s6 edge is that the screen never unlocked easily.. When I finished a hole I tried to look at the screen easily to write down my score and it took numerous button smashing to unlock it. My phones completely stock BTW for Verizon. I sponsored the Kickstarter cause of how much I used the app. The golf pads was more for my knowledge. Also we need a better way to tag a drop. I hit a hazard and had to double register a club, maybe offer a better way to flag a drop. Idea is to not take the phone out of the pocket. As it takes forever to unlock the screen.

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Bobby R. posted over 9 years ago

I've had about 8 full rounds of tag scanning so far. On the second or third round I foudn the sweet spot on the phone in my pcoklet for scanning. I would say only one or two times a round am I unable to scan within the first try. Unfortunately I am still not completely thrilled about how I look with the club sticking straight out from my pocket. It is very odd looking and noticeable.

Since this is an NFC technology drawback, I'm not sure there is a great solution for this - it now makes sense why Game Golf designed their NFC reader the way they did at a 45* angle. I still think this is a superior product, utilizing the phone, but consideration of how to fix this would be huge.

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Thomas posted over 9 years ago

Same issue for me. Very distracting and finally gave up tracking the round after 4-5 holes b/c of it. I agree on the tee box it could be ok, but out on the fairway tapping my club over and over again to my pocket. I was slowing down the round and looking ridiculous.

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jeff hunter posted over 9 years ago

I am experiencing the same issue. It usually takes 2 or 3 attempts to get it to recognize the club. It's a bit of a distraction when I am trying to set up for my shot. I'd appreciate any tips as well.

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Cody Book posted over 9 years ago

When I've played with the app, my group usually likes to see yardage from the tee box. So I walk up to about where I'm going to tee up and look at the yardage on my phone, this is when I would mark the GPS location. I wasn't using tags at the time but I can imagine just holding my driver in the other hand when I walk up to get the distance and tap the back. I found it didn't cause any slow down of the round or anything.

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