"Personal golf scoring, mapping and GPS for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Crisp and beautiful graphics help you lcoate and track all parts of the game. Recall every stroke and each club on every hole for every course you have ever played...remembers exactly what happened when you don't...
"Scoring...
"Mapping - Not just a scoring app but full mapping templates for holes on any course in the world.
"GPS - locate and automatically calculate distances between shots.
"Historical record of past rounds...
"Easily record the club used for each shot...
Damn! Can't wait to try it.
http://phobos.apple.com/
-Forsyth
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Careful with this one. It looks like (from some of the reviews) the app still lacks some very basic "golf functionality". E.g. it tell you how far you hit the ball, but not how far you have left, it doesn't have pre-defined course information, you have to build each hole according to templates, in other words.. "the hole I'm playing is something like this template on the iPhone", etc.
I'm going to wait a bit. :)
Thanks for the heads up Jerry!
By coincidence I got the following email from the company today. It describes the template approach. It appears they decided to rely on users to fill in the various courses. Each template created by a user is public to all users:
Press Release
8/6/08
Denver, CO/USA - Plum Amazing is pleased to announce their first applications, Plum Caddy for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available in the iTunes App Store. The link ... will open iTunes to the
Plum Caddy page.
Plum Caddy is the premiere golf mapping and scoring application for the multi touch platform found on the iPhone and iPod touch. Plum Caddy can be used on any golf course in the world to track strokes, putts and other golfing statistics. Plum Caddy provides an attractive and intuitive interface for keeping track of your score, as well as the locations of each shot. The user can use the touch interface to place where their shot went on a map of the hole and track the number of strokes and other statistics. At the present time if the user has a 3G iPhone then the GPS can be used to display the distance between shots.
By remembering every shot on every hole on every course ever played, Plum Caddy provides the golfer with instant historical information, such as club used and location of any shot. Statistics are available at any time during or after a round.
In August, the online complement of Plum Caddy called Plum Clubhouse, will become available. One part of Plum Clubhouse will be the golf course construction kit which can create real and accurate maps of any course in the world. Once a user creates a map and saves it then that map will become available to all other members of Plum Clubhouse and downloadable to their iPhones. These maps are not templates but accurate GPS capable maps that will allow seeing each hole with the locations of boxes, hazards, fairway boundaries, and range finding from the golfers position to any of these items. Plum Clubhouse will also add other features like more archiving, scoring and social options which will be revealed over time.
Plum Caddy is only $10 which is on par with the price of a few golf balls yet it provides scoring, mapping, GPS, histories for the iPod Touch, iPhone and new 3G iPhone. Plum Caddy is essential for any iPhone using golfer.
Golf courses, golf equipment manufacturers and golf sponsors are welcome to contact Plum Amazing for details on partnership. The company Plum Amazing is actively pursuing even more features for golfers and the golf industry in the future.
Plum Amazing Software based in Denver, CO is a new privately held company dedicated to iPhone and mobile applications.
Julian Miller
Plum Amazing Software
info@plumamazing.com
http://www.plumamazing.com
If you would like more information and did not receive this message directly go here.
Yesterday, we submitted our "must have" iphone app for golfers. iTalkSmack - Golf Edition. The app is not on iTunes yet as Apple has to review it but we do have the companion site up at http://italksmack.com.
Tell us what you think.
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