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FEATURE
Technology of present
READY TO CHANGE THE
FUTURE GOLFING WORLD
hen you focus on improving the
areas of your game that require
the majority of your strokes, you can
¿ nd the greatest technical opportunity
to highlight your score. Tracking and
improving your G.I.R. is an important
part of that process.
Make sure you are playing the right
golf ball for your game with Up Game-
a relatively new player to the Golf
space, and they’re a unique and kind
of a catch-all app for the youngsters.
Not only they provide ef¿ cient score-
keeping functionalities but is also
making you connect with your coach in
an effective way with better analytics
and improvisation in your game. You can
share your rounds live, so that your coach
can track your progress, even if they’re
not in your game. You can set up games
with all kinds of formats, and
the app will help you keep
it all straight. With
their
premium
function, you
can keep
detailed stats on each shot and the hole
you play. You can see graphics laid over
shots to show where your ball will land
depending on how far you hit it.
Sawhney has been an adamant young
Golfer who persuaded his father to
go to America to play and study Golf
professionally after completing his
Graduation. Sawhney: ‘’I saw the
Americans playing who were actually
hitting better than me and I had no Idea
how to beat them. Being a Graduate in
Stats I had always been con¿ dent about
numbers. So, I sat down with my coach
and decided to practice and keep more of
stats in my game.
From then I started to analyse from what
and where my strengths could be and I
started practicing accordingly with my
Coach. By the end of the second year
I actually started making progress and
could see the improvement in my Game”
Keeping stats in golf is very tedious and
time consuming. You actually do it in a
notebook and have to spend a lot of time
on these numbers. UpGame co-founder
Shivaam Tibrewal and Sameer Sawhney
came up with the idea of doing something
and making the stat process easier by
the application. They both believed that
there
is a lot
of
value
in Stats. And
now with the
coming up of this
Golf Application has
made their Gol¿ ng life
simple and a digitalised lesson
Diary that is also easy to carry.
According to Sawhney ‘’ Almost 40%
of the Students forget about the Golf
lesson they just had as and when they get