We are looking a possible methods to improve our scorecard data collections and entry.
Mobile Data Entry (MDE) is a very promising technology.
APPs for MDE are already available is downloaded from the Google Play Store or ITunes onto members’ smartphones.
Simple as point and click on a smart phone, that would make completion of scorecards faster (than pencil), more accurate (click-on selections for Names, ID numbers, courses), hole score totals automatic, easy edit for corrections and immediate electronic transfer (no mailing and waiting for postal service).
Purpose of Survey – what type phones Apple -IOS or Android (everything but IPhone), experience with internet and APPs, knowledge and use of golf apps, and problems/issues with green cards.
Should only take a couple of minutes.
Members w/o smartphones go to scorecard, bypass rest of survey.
https://goo.gl/forms/B5DgXRbcCY2fkrNa2
I’m all for it!
difficult to correct and check for errors I think tracking time is a waste of time, start time, finish time and record time always varible per group. Playing time is what it is, some are slow and some fast and that will always be. Just keep preaching ready golf and max on strokes, whatever number you want to establish.
Next to last event of the season at Wentzville I asked a guy I was playing with on at least 4 different occasions what his score was to put on the score card. I had to correct his count by at least one stroke each of those times, and on one occasion, by 2 strokes.
Since I was, by then keeping close account of his score, I know what was turned in. If he was doing it on his smart phone I would not know what he put down.
I think he got by with shaving 3 or 4 strokes off the first hole. Which is why I was watching him very closely after that. Was he trying to cheat – I seriously think so.
If he was doing it on is smart phone I would never trust his score. And this guy won a lot of money this year.
The 2017 Smartphone Survey Results download file has a “DOC” extension of it. It is actually a “PDF” file…
Ned – good catch. A new feature in WordPress is easy updates to media, but one option “renames” the file to the old version. In this case, I updated from a doc to a pdf version. The update option used old name with the doc extension, but it was a PDF file.
Changed the option for proper replacement. I learned something.