The Arccos Caddie Application Review
In this review i’m gonna tell you everything there is to know about the Arccos Caddy app. Do you know what that is the Arcos Caddy system is?
It is sensors connected to your clubs, that record every shot you make and gives you tour like statistics right on your desktop or on your phone. It’s really amazing! It helps your game, it tells you where to improve and it also is a caddy that helps you on the course. By letting you know what club you should use because of the distance, and it takes into account the lies and distance and all that stuff. It’s so good! On the top of the screen you can look for golf courses, you can search for TPC Sawgrass for instance, and if I want to play there.
Okay, i want to play there, yeah cool. It tells you to download that course, you can see it at home before you go to your round, and you can download the course so you have it on your phone and it opens up really quick when you’re on the first tee. I recommend starting the app a little before your tee time so you have time to make sure everything is correct, but that’s nice. It works most of the time really fast you can then choose your round settings you can choose your start hole, which is normally number one and your tee box, which is let’s say we play from blue and then you just press start round. And the round should start up, and you can see all the numbers.
You need to play this round. You can also press the “ask caddy” on the first hole of the TPC at Sawgrass Valley course the Arccos Caddy recommend me hitting the driver first, and hitting the 4 hybrid after that if i land on the fairway.
And if I press to see more info about the driver I can see that i have a 37.1 percent chance of hitting the center of the fairway, which is okay. It’s okay! Or i can choose 5-wood and it comes up with a different number, and I have a 40,6 percent chance of hitting the fairway with my 5-wood. And you can use the caddy to help you on the course, it registers wind in the area and it sees the uphill and downhill lies.
So it knows if the green is uphill, you need to club up one more club.
And it tells you all this automatically, and it’s really nice. It is so easy to just have the numbers, and trust the numbers when you’re out there playing. But here we are at the home screen.
Kjekstad golf club is my home course, it finds it. It finds the closest course to you where you are when you open the app, then you have to decide if you want shot detection mode from your phone. And that your phone should track the shots or if you have the Arccos Caddy Link, which is a small sensor that you put on your belt or on your pocket, so it registers for you. Then you don’t need the phone, or you can have the watch, an Apple watch or an Android watch to track the shot for you. I haven’t done that, I haven’t used that. You can also have the preview caddie, so you can look at the course you’re about to play beforehand and decide a little strategically what kind of clubs you would need, and if you need to plan out something. But let’s look at the activities section. Here you can see the rounds I have lately, that’s all my rounds.
You have your personal bests, I don’t have any lately, because I haven’t played so good. But I have two here though, which is nice. The fewest putts in greens in regulation, two putts. Oh! And most fairways hit, seven of eleven. I’m very happy with that, and you can view your last round and look at all the shots you had. Let’s look at the club section, here you have all your clubs and the numbers, the distance you normally hit with these clubs. So if we look at my driver. I press it, and I see that my range is from 188 to 244 which is my longest, but my range is 213. The 244 is an anomaly, I was really lucky with that one. But my smart distance, the distance that Arccos Caddy has figured out for me is 197 meters. So that’s what I’m going for most of the time, and you can see my fairway accuracy is 36.8 percent, and 40{3e313036511ccb3c4ebd980ea3b88fb7b334a60ab61e4f647ffbc5532378e2a2} sliced to the right.
That’s normal, you can look at the usage. You can see all your shots, all the meters here and you see that some of them are grayed out. And the ones that are green are the ones that are counting towards your smart distance. It takes away anomalies and shots that you really miss like these 66 meters with my driver, that’s obviously a mishit, so it takes that out of the equation. So it doesn’t count and I guess as you can see these distances are really nice to have, and know your numbers.
There’s a smart range distance here you can see that the smaller greens are better, and the smaller they are the better it is. Because then you are more consistent of course, and you have the longest shots I’ve ever done with that club, and the greens in regulation. Which is not good for me, and then you have the usage, how many shots you’ve done with the different clubs. This is really nice! Let’s look at my 52 degree wedge, and you see my smart range, you also see the greens in regulation. I have 44.4 percent greens in regulation, and I seem to miss both short and long on those, and I have 16 percent chip and down. And i have sand and down at 50{3e313036511ccb3c4ebd980ea3b88fb7b334a60ab61e4f647ffbc5532378e2a2}, so if i come from the sand with this club I get it down into the hole on the next shot 50{3e313036511ccb3c4ebd980ea3b88fb7b334a60ab61e4f647ffbc5532378e2a2} of the time which is good.
It’s okay, and then if we go to player, which is the most interesting one. You can see my overall game. You can compare yourself to a 15 handicap here, I can compare myself to a 19 handicapper. Let’s do that, and my last 10 averages. It’s nice, so let’s do that and I lose 6.1 shots per round compared to other 19 handicappers which is not good. I put a little bit better, one shot extra per round or one shot less than normal. But you can see I’m losing on my driving and my approach shots. And they have top three insights for me, they have what I need to work on and they have what’s helping me right now. So if I see that distance versus accuracy, I’m losing 3.1 strokes on driving accuracy of tees because of penalties of the tee. They have a little pro there which gives you a little tip, that you you can work on. And you can see the trends and the scoring analysis on the different type of holes.
You can also look at the approach shots, last round was better than normal actually, you can see the approach by pin distance, approached by terrain, I am bad of the fairway because I’m mostly in the rough I guess. And if you look at my putting you can see I’m trending down. I’m getting worse, and you can see how I’m putting in a round, where I have those hot streaks and cold streaks, and putting length.
