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V1 Sports launches new V1 Coach mobile app featuring strokes gained and ‘potential’ data
V1 Sports has unveiled its new V1 Coach mobile app, which per the company is designed to help golf instructors and coaches manage their students’ performance data to optimize lesson content, practice plans, course management and scoring habits.
With an advanced analytics engine, a golfer’s data syncs directly from the V1 Game app to V1 Coach, allowing coaches to see when their players are playing, how they are playing, and what they should be working on most.
For coaches of teams or competitive players, the Coach View also enables a quick comparison of players’ strengths in familiar “Strokes Gained” categories including Tee-to-Green (T2G), Driving (D), Approach (A), Short Game (S), and Putting (P).
Speaking on the new V1 Coach mobile app, V1 Sports CEO Bryan Finnerty stated
“If coaches and instructors want to get down into the very DNA of their players and students on-course performances, V1 Coach is a must-have tool for working smarter and teaching golfers to manage every phase of the game better.
The level of data in V1 Coach that can be applied to teaching and focusing practice time effectively is an absolute breakthrough. This is the new indispensable tool for golf coaches everywhere.”
The app features Shotlink-style maps of shot locations and scores which aim to help coaches develop and share on-course strategy and course management. Full shot histories of how a hole has been played at the team (V1 Coach) or individual level (V1 Game) are also available and designed to highlight specific miss tendencies on specific holes and courses.
Also contained in the new app is the Coach’s Dashboard which displays round summaries and shows performance data relative to selected reference categories, such as specific handicap ranges (from Tour Player to 25 handicap) and gender.
The V1 Coach mobile app also displays ‘potential’. The ‘potential’ feature is designed to show what the player could be scoring if they were to clean up the most decisive errors from a given round, like penalty shots, three-putts and leaving approach shots off the green or too far from the pin.
Speaking on the new app, Dallas Webster, developer of V1 Coach and V1 Game said
“After a round, you may be frustrated that you missed that last six-footer, but the V1 Game might tell you the deeper insight is that you had a bad driving day and why, Maybe you were missing left all day. V1 Game also tells you everything you did well in clear-to-follow data points. Over time, this data is aggregated and, when the data is uploaded to your instructor or coach’s V1 Coach app, the skills you should be working on become more evident.”
Apple users can download the V1 Coach app from the App Store, and you can find more information on the V1 Mobile app at https://v1sports.com/blog/v1-sports-launches-v1-coach/.
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Butch Harmon reveals what he worked on with Rory McIlroy during visit earlier this year
While speaking on the “Son of a Butch” Podcast, legendary swing coach Butch Harmon revealed what he worked on with Rory McIlroy when the four-time major champion went to visit him after the Players Championship this season.
Butch Harmon on what he worked on with Rory:
“The work I did with him wasn’t a tremendous amount of changing what he did, it was his attitude and the way he played certain shots. From 150 yards and in he made a full swing like he was hitting a driver and I wanted him to make…
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“The work I did with him wasn’t a tremendous amount of changing what he did, it was his attitude and the way he played certain shots. From 150 yards and in he made a full swing like he was hitting a driver and I wanted him to make more 3 quarter swings and chop the follow through off a little. He’s a very high ball hitter, but with short irons high balls aren’t good, it’s hard to control, we wanted to bring the ball flight down.”
The work certainly seemed to help McIlroy, as he went on to win the Zurich Classic alongside Shane Lowry and the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in back-to-back starts.
Rory will now tee it up at Valhalla for the PGA Championship, which is the site of his most recent major victory in 2014.
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Brandel Chamblee says this technological development was key to Phil Mickelson winning major championships
While speaking with GolfWRX, Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee shared that he believes the solid core golf ball helped Phil Mickelson win major championships.
“One of the consequences of the solid core golf ball coming around was it put the straightest of hitters in the rough.
“Phil started winning majors in 2004, I don’t think that’s any coincidence. I think he started winning majors after the solid core golf ball came along and put everybody in the rough.
“And so [Phil] is like ‘I got you in the rough, I’m going to kick your a**. This is my game. I’ve been in the rough my whole career. I can go over trees, through trees, around trees.’
“Because he’s got that amazing creativity and Phil is an underrated iron player, phenomenal iron player. Great, great great out of the trouble. If you put the top-40 players on a list and ranked them in terms of accuracy, he would be 40th.
“So, I think that was one of the consequences of the solid core golf balls was it allowed Phil to win major championships.”
Mickelson went on to win the Masters in 2004 as well as five additional majors from 2004-2021 including three total Masters, two PGA Championships, and an Open Championship.
Check out the full interview with Chamblee below:
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Former Augusta National employee pleads guilty to transporting stolen Masters memorabilia; Arnold Palmer’s green jacket among stolen items
The document was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Since then, more details have emerged about the case.
According to Darren Rovell of Cllct, one of the items that was stolen was Arnold Palmer’s green jacket.
The Chicago Tribune also reported that Globensky was able to steal the merchandise due to his role as a former warehouse coordinator at Augusta National who oversaw the Masters merchandise that was sold.
Rovell states that “A source with intimate knowledge of the case said an Augusta National member, who knew the jacket was missing, contacted a well-known collector who had gained a reputation for tracking down rare items. The member’s goal was to return the jacket to Augusta under the guise of purchasing it in a private sale.”
The plan worked, and the man agreed to sell the jacket for an agreed upon price of $3.6 million. After the sale was complete, the FBI swarmed the house of the thief.
Cllct also reported that Globensky pled guilty in a federal court in Chicago on Wednesday and now faces up to 10 years in prison.
The Chicago Tribune adds that Globensky’s plea deal includes an agreement to provide the government a cashier’s check for $1.5 million in the next few days.
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