Whenever I talk to someone getting into golf for the first time, I tell them to consider tracking their game with Arccos. For my money, there’s no better subscription service to see how your golf game is developing as you practice and progress. It’s the best golf Apple Watch app and, in my opinion, the best way to improve your game on the course.
Right now, PGA Tour Superstore has a full set of Arccos sensors (15 regular sensors and a putter sensor) for $199, $50 off the regular price. Best of all, new members get a year of service included, so you can get into everything it offers without spending anything extra. If you love it (and I think you will), you can keep the subscription going. If you don’t, you can learn a lot from it in that year and never look back, knowing you got a good deal.
Arccos sensors go right in your club grips. From there, you register them in the app so it knows which club is associated with each sensor, and then you go play. I don’t find them intrusive at all, as they’re so light you can’t feel them.
Because it knows what club you’re using and when you hit the ball, it keeps track of your shots and tells you how far you hit each one. After a few rounds, Arccos learns how far you hit each club and will make recommendations. For example, if it knows you hit your 7 iron 150 yards and you’re 157 yards from the green, it’ll tell you to hit that club.
But it goes further, because you can look at your shot dispersions to see which club is more likely to land on the green. So if you hit your 7-iron farther but your 8-iron more accurately (based on past shots), you can make a smarter club choice. No longer will you use your gut to figure out which club feels right. You’ll use historic shot data to make the play that’s most likely to get you the best score. Of course, you could top the ball 20 yards, but you can’t blame Arccos for that!
After your round, Arccos will analyse your performance and tell you which parts of your game were best and which were worst. It’ll tell you key stats like the number of fairways hit, how many greens in regulation you had and how many putts per hole you took. Mindlessly practicing will help you improve a bit, but using Arccos to identify exactly what you need to work on will let you focus your time and practice more intelligently between rounds.
Look, I probably sound like I work for Arccos with how much I’m gushing over the product, but I have nothing to do with them. I’m just a bad golfer looking to get better, and no other golf-related purchase I’ve ever made has helped me improve faster than Arccos. I love my PXG Lightning driver; it’s helped my game a lot, but I’d trade it away in a second if it was the difference between using Arccos and not — it’s that important to my enjoyment of golf.
