GPS golf app adds a "smart caddie": Arccos helps you up your game

Arccos Golf offers a patented, GPS-based hardware and software system that automatically records your golf shots, giving you key insights into your game. Arccos 360 features 14 sensors, one for every club in the bag. Together with the hardware, the Arccos GPS golf app records and analyzes your every shot, combining Live Shot Tracking, GPS 2.0 and Tour Analytics to help you play smarter and shoot lower scores.

In 2017, Arccos partnered with Microsoft to leverage its popular Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Azure Machine Learning. With those additions, Arccos launched the first artificial intelligence-platform for golf called Arccos Caddie, which you can now access for free if you use the Arccos 360 GPS golf app package.

By combining golf club sensors and advanced analytics, Arccos Caddie aims to help golfers of all skill levels make data-driven decisions on the course. The platform leverages a vast data set of over 75 million shots hit by the Arccos community, as well as precise elevation data and over 368 million geotagged data points on more than 40,000 courses.

This “smart” GPS golf app gets smarter

Launched in late May 2018, version 2.0 of Arccos Caddie uses a wide variety of inputs to provide a golfer with real-time insights into their optimal and alternative strategies, as well as outcome predictions, for every shot they play. Factors considered include but are not limited to: a user’s shot history, the historical performance of other Arccos users, weather conditions including wind speed, elevation changes, hole geometry, and hazard locations.

You can use Arccos Caddie on nearly any hole in the world, regardless of whether or not you’ve previously played the course. The system aims to help you pinpoint your exact strengths, weaknesses and what club to pick each time. Arccos Caddie digests unique data sets for each player, and delivers advice for everyone from beginner golfers to pros seeking to make the PGA Tour.

Arccos says its users improve their handicap 36 times faster than the average golfer, and in 2016, golfers improved by an average of 2.77 strokes. With Arccos Caddie, Arccos says this trend can reach more dramatic heights.

New Coaches Dashboard

Arccos Golf also recently released Arccos Coaches Dashboard, which is a free, web-based platform that allows PGA Professionals, college coaches and other instructors to easily access and understand all of their students’ on-course data, such as strokes gained, club gapping visualizations, and performance trends. Learn more here.

The Arccos 360 app is a “Best of 2017” Mobile Star Awards Winner. You can follow or connect with Arccos below.