I've never really utilized the Mark Flag function before I played a round yesterday. In general, it never meant much to me, but I figured that if I really want to be tracking my putting (specifically my second-putt distances to the hole) I would need to start using it. So I started scanning the hole on my watch as I went to pick up the ball, and noticed something odd:
Regardless of when I marked it, the app would register its location as something like 20ft away from where I was standing. Sometimes I would mark it on the way to my ball, sometimes as I was putting out, but it wouldn't matter. And it did this regardless of whether I was using my phone or my (WearOS) watch to do it. It was most obvious when I would have like a one-foot putt: I would scan my putter with its TAG, putt, then mark the flag position without moving, and my watch would say "Last putt 36 ft" or something similar. Then I'd have to edit the hole, tap on the flag position, and move it to where it should be.
I would normally think "ah, this is just GPS acting up," but honestly it was so consistent that I'm not so sure. And the fact that I would putt, then scan the pin without moving, and it would be 20+ feet away from where I'm standing? The numbers on the screen hadn't changed, so you'd think that at the very least both the putt location and the pin would be off by the same amount, but no, it was always different, and by a big margin.
18 times I had to do this yesterday. Does anybody else have a similar story to this? I'm curious.
I've never really utilized the Mark Flag function before I played a round yesterday. In general, it never meant much to me, but I figured that if I really want to be tracking my putting (specifically my second-putt distances to the hole) I would need to start using it. So I started scanning the hole on my watch as I went to pick up the ball, and noticed something odd:
Regardless of when I marked it, the app would register its location as something like 20ft away from where I was standing. Sometimes I would mark it on the way to my ball, sometimes as I was putting out, but it wouldn't matter. And it did this regardless of whether I was using my phone or my (WearOS) watch to do it. It was most obvious when I would have like a one-foot putt: I would scan my putter with its TAG, putt, then mark the flag position without moving, and my watch would say "Last putt 36 ft" or something similar. Then I'd have to edit the hole, tap on the flag position, and move it to where it should be.
I would normally think "ah, this is just GPS acting up," but honestly it was so consistent that I'm not so sure. And the fact that I would putt, then scan the pin without moving, and it would be 20+ feet away from where I'm standing? The numbers on the screen hadn't changed, so you'd think that at the very least both the putt location and the pin would be off by the same amount, but no, it was always different, and by a big margin.
18 times I had to do this yesterday. Does anybody else have a similar story to this? I'm curious.
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