Instruction How does your game stack up against the pros? Find out with these charts By: (Arccos knows whether you hit a 6-iron or 7-iron ShotLink does not.) Rice’s second look saw the scales fall from his eyes and Arccos’ potential impact come into focus.
Only Arccos’ data is richer, and not from Tiger Woods but rather John D’oh. Small IoT sensors attached to each club’s grip sync with an app in either a smartphone, smartwatch or Arccos’ wearable Caddie Link shot-tracking device and gather info that’s turned into, among other things, ShotLink-like data. “The guys at PING came back to me and said, ‘Andrew, please, take another look, because there’s something to this stuff.’ ”Īrccos’ stuff was, and is, data - terabytes of on-course information about shots struck by everyday golfers, distilled by proprietary A.I. “I said, ‘Eh, I don’t know, I’m good,’ ” Rice recalls of seeing Arccos in action back in spring 2019. As a man who prides himself on being fact-driven, not ego-driven, and who asks his students to be the same, Rice can admit that at first blush he didn’t see the big whoop. Andrew Rice, director of instruction at The Club at Savannah Harbor and a GOLF Top 100 Teacher, has branded himself “the Everyday Golfer’s Coach.” This made him just the guy for PING to ask to take a look at the work of a company named Arccos, with which it had a fledgling partnership.
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