GHIN: Handicap Index® & GPS

App was great until you changed the app icon to the white border. What’s with that? Only app on my phone with a white border, looks awful

Background: I’ve been using a scoring app for the past 15 years. It can be used on my Apple Watch and provides me all the during-the-round info I need, primarily distances via the watch’s GPS. I also used the previous GHIN app on my iPhone and watch to enter hole-by-hole scores for official handicap purposes. That GHIN version presented a nice simple scorecard on the iPhone and straightforward method to post the scores. It also provided a nice, simple, straightforward interface to enter hole scores on the watch (plus, minus, next, prev… simple). Now: The new version requires the GHIN GPS version to be active on the iPhone to enter scores on the watch, which highjacks my other app as the default app on the watch, which is not what I want, so I shut the watch app off after the first hole of the first round using the new version and use the non-GPS version of the app on the iPhone. Using the iPhone to enter scores went from a nice, simple presentation to something way less desirable. For one, you now can’t see what you’ve entered for previous holes without scrolling back to the left. Also, I used to just click on the hole I needed to enter a score without having to use the +/- to get to the hole. And you now have to click at least one additional time to post the scores. The new version also doesn’t remember the tees I used the previous time I played the course, so an additional click. How about a nice simple interface for those of us using other scoring apps? Say, maybe a return to what previously was available?

Why did you guys change a standard keyboard/phone numeric convention for score entry for a custom format that is cumbersome, distracting and foreign to use? Makes no sense. Wish I could downgrade to the old app. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken!

I really like the new stats page but I really don’t like the new hole by hole entry. It sucks when it flips between the score, FIR, GIR, and then putts. Wish it was all on one page like it was before.

New redesign was clearly made by some UX designer that doesn’t play any golf. Hole-by-hole scoring is clunky and counter intuitive, graphics are less appealing flow between scoring and GPS are terrible.

The app is great when it works, but my Enhanced GPS stopped working despite my upgraded subscription still being active. We contacted USGA customer service to fix the issue or refund our subscription fee. However, they were completely non-responsive. We also contacted our local association, the NCGA, but they have also been ignoring us."

So far it sucks

My husband deleted the former app and replaced it with new app, the new graphics are less visually appealing nor easy to visualize the holes. Additionally, when used I used the App to look up the handicaps of the players in our group, the App seemed to assume that I was keeping their scores in addition to my own. Like everything digital, I will learn to use it, but didn’t really understand the need for an update.

Updated version has so much more rich and helpful information relating to your scoring and it’s trend. I do wish they would make the workout tracking aspect optional though, I like using my watch to keep track of score and distances while playing, but the app greatly overinflates my active calories while doing so.

Since the new update when I go to use my Apple watch to post my scores hole by hole it requires me to use GPS. Why can I not post scores without using GPS like before the update. GPS drains the battery on my phone and watch.