Distance to hazards on watch

Posted almost 4 years ago by Cory Piron

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Cory Piron

Would be great to see the distance to say bunkers or water on my Apple Watch. This feature has been available on Garmin gold watches for many years Thanks and keep up the great work!

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Azam Malik posted over 3 years ago

This is a super important feature and I don't understand why it isn't being worked on as a higher priority. There are several friends I know of who would love GoflPad but wouldn't pull the trigger due to lack of this particular feature. You have the GPS coordinates of the hazards! show them on the watch!

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Carlo Kassam posted 10 months ago

Any update of when we can have the distance to the hazards on the Apple Watch ?

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Cindy Wren posted almost 4 years ago

Thank you Cory. We are working on adding automatic distance to hazards on the watch but don't have a specific timeline right now. We appreciate your suggestion for for being a user of the Golf Pad app. - Cindy

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Cindy Wren posted about 3 years ago

Hi Luke - it is a big undertaking, however, we are currently working on this. We do plan to have an option for users to contribute as well once we lay most of the ground work. Thanks for your comment and for sharing the link to the mapping tool. - Cindy

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Matej posted about 2 years ago

It is only available on Wear OS, not on Tizen (like samsung galaxy watch 3), if I understand correctly?

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Cindy Wren posted about 2 years ago

@beat - I'm checking on this for you. - Cindy

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Michel Charron posted about 2 years ago

it's working now

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Beat posted about 2 years ago

Happy to see hazard distance working on my Wear OS Ticwatch Pro 3. However the size of the font of the distance of hazards is so tiny that it is impossible to read without putting on reading glasses (see my screen below). Like this it is pretty useless on the course.

Please make the font size bigger and bold.

The same applies for the time indication on the main watch screen and the score and hole number. There is enough space to make the font bold and slightly bigger.

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Cindy Wren posted about 2 years ago

@Beat - Thanks for bringing this up! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the new distance to hazards feature on your smartwatch. We totally understand how important it is to have a font size that's easy to read, and we appreciate your feedback on this. I'll definitely pass your comments along to the development team for consideration in future updates.

In the meantime, have you tried adjusting your watch settings under "accessibility" and "font size"? That could potentially make a difference for you. Here's some helpful information on that: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/11183305?hl=en-GB

Thanks again for reaching out, and please let us know if you have any other questions or suggestions.

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luke Venn posted about 3 years ago

Hi Cindy, Could GolfPad not just adjust the http://scout.golfpadgps.com/ tool to allow us to mark the front/back of any hazards ourselves?

That would allow us to get the hazard distances that so many seem keen for, whilst also saving Golfpad lots of legwork.

NB: For anyone unfamiliar with the tool, watch the short video at: http://scout.golfpadgps.com/

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Peter Fell posted over 3 years ago

Please fast track hazard distances for Samsung watch, even if at additional cost, this is a key requirement for difficult courses especially if they're unfamiliar

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Beat posted almost 4 years ago

Please add automatic distance to hazards also for Wear OS watch, thanks.

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Johnrancher posted almost 4 years ago

Is this option available for samsung watches? Or is it in the same timeline? It is the only option I'm really missing in an otherwise GREAT app.

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Adrian Daetwyler posted about 2 years ago

Yesterday, I just used Golfpad for the first time. Everything worked well and the statistics will be interesting in the long run. However, as Beat mentioned, the font of some information, especially the hazard info is way too small. Please change this shortcoming as fast as possible! Many thanks.

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Cindy Wren posted over 2 years ago

Hi Carlo - I'm checking on this for you and will post an update once I know more. UPDATE: the team informs me we do not anticipate this being ready in December. It is something we are working toward, it just didn't come together as soon as we had hoped.

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