Arccos Caddie Wins 2019 Golf Digest Editors’ Choice Award for ‘Best Game Analyzer’
Big Data & Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Honored for Fourth Straight Year
STAMFORD, Conn., – Arccos – the pioneer of big data and artificial intelligence for golf – today announced that its Arccos Caddie platform has won a 2019 Golf Digest Editors’ Choice Award for “Best Game Analyzer.”
Highlighted in the magazine’s June issue, Arccos’ two flagship hardware offerings – Smart Sensors and Smart Grips – were both named among “The Best Things in Golf.” This marks the fourth consecutive year Arccos has been so honored, a distinction notably fueled by the 3.79 stroke average handicap improvement Arccos Caddie users realized in 2018.
“The entire sports landscape is being revolutionized by advanced analytics, and golf is the perfect sport for the application of these concepts,” said Sal Syed, Arccos CEO and Co-Founder. “Working with Cobra, PING and Microsoft, we’re plugging into a very traditional framework – the caddie/player relationship – and taking it to the next level through the power of A.I. Now, any golfer can see their optimal strategy and outcome predictions for every shot on any hole in the world.”
Free for all Arccos Caddie users, the A.I. platform considers a wide variety of inputs, including a user’s shot history, historical performance of other Arccos users, wind speed/direction, other weather conditions, elevation changes, hole geometry, hazard locations and more.
“The PGA TOUR has done a great job of using advanced analytics to help its players practice and perform their best,” said Mike Downey, Director, Brand Partnership Engineering at Microsoft. “At other levels of the game, capturing the necessary on-course data has been a real challenge. Arccos has cracked that code and built a robust data set which they’re deploying via the Microsoft Azure cloud to the benefit of golfers worldwide.”
Also listed among the “World’s Most Innovative Companies 2018” by Fast Company, ranking #3 in the Sports category globally, Arccos boasts the golf industry’s richest data set. This includes nearly 200 million shots hit during more than 2 million rounds played by the Arccos community, and over 500 million GPS mapping data points on 40,000+ courses worldwide.
In 2018, Arccos and Cobra launched golf’s first smart set, Cobra Connect Powered by Arccos. As part of this ongoing collaboration, every club in the Cobra KING F8 line and new KING F9 line features an Arccos sensor embedded in the grip. This helps players improve faster by automatically tracking and receiving actionable insights for every aspect of their game. PING will soon offer users of its clubs the opportunity to directly access the Arccos Caddie ecosystem.
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Arccos Golf, LLC develops game-changing connected golf products. The company is revolutionizing the golfing experience by integrating automatic shot tracking with
