Bloomington Golf vs DuffMate

Improve your golf experience with the Bloomington Golf app! This app includes: - Interactive Scorecard - Golf Games: Skins, Stableford, Par, Stroke Scoring - GPS - Measure your shot! - Golfer Profile with Automatic Stats Tracker - Hole Descriptions & Playing Tips - Live Tournaments & Leaderboards - Book Tee Times - Message Center - Offer Locker - Food & Beverage Menu - Facebook Sharing - And much more… Includes Scorecards and GPS Mapping for: -Highland Park Golf Course -Prairie Vista Golf Course -The Den at Fox Creek Golf Course Highland Park Golf Course The City of Bloomington's first venture into the golf business was Highland Park Golf Course. Built in the 1930's, this golf course offers old, mature trees lining each fairway - making accuracy an absolute must on the 5,539 yard course. In addition to the narrow fairways, small greens make for a challenging round. USGA Course Ratings and Slope Ratings are 66.9 and 111, respectively. A hilly terrain with a beautiful creek meandering through the course make this a very scenic golf course. Highland Park Golf Course has served as the host course for the Illinois High School Association's Girls State Championship. Golf Digest Places to Play has given Highland Park a 3 Star Rating. You are challenged to find a better value than that of Highland Park. The full-line Golf Shop carries a great selection of golf equipment and apparel at discount prices. We look forward to seeing you at Highland Park. Prairie Vista Golf Course The City of Bloomington opened the Roger Packard-designed Prairie Vista Golf Course on May 17, 1991. The course, which is an American Contemporary Style, measures 6,745 yards from the Championship Tees and 5,224 yards from the Forward Tees. USGA Course Ratings and Slope Ratings are 72.2 and 129, respectively. Bentgrass tees, greens and fairways make this golf course a treat to play. Water hazards are located on 16 of the 18 holes. Other amenities include; a large practice putting green, a large practice chipping green (with practice sand bunker) and a grass driving range; A full-line Golf Shop offers golf equipment and apparel at discount prices. Prairie Vista was host to the 1997 NCAA Division I Women's East Regional and has been the host course for the Illinois High School Association's Class A Boys State Championship since 1993. Prairie Vista Golf Course is a Golf Digest "Places to Play" 4-Star Golf Course. The Den at Fox Creek The Den at Fox Creek became the City of Bloomington's third golf course when it opened on August 1, 1997. This Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course measures 6,926 yards from the Palmer Tees and 5,345 yards from the Forward Tees. USGA Course Ratings and Slope Ratings are 72.9 and 128, respectively. Bentgrass tees, greens and fairways compliment the Wild Prairie Grasses which grow in the rough to make a picturesque Scottish Links Style golf course. The course features 131 strategically placed sand traps, making the extremely wide fairways even more attractive. Water hazards are located on 9 of the 18 holes. Other amenities include an extremely large practice putting green, a large practice chipping green (with practice sand bunker) and a very large grass driving range with several target greens. A full-line Golf Shop offers golf equipment and apparel at discount prices. The Den at Fox Creek has become the host golf course for the Illinois High School Association's Class AA Boys State Championships. Mr. Palmer himself shot 74 during his Grand Opening Round. Can you beat it? The Den at Fox Creek is a Golf Digest “Places to Play” 4 ½ - Star Golf Course.

"Was that a 6 or a 7!?" - DuffMate has you covered. "My cart doesn't have a GPS screen!" - DuffMate has that one covered, too. DuffMate counts your golf shots. Full swings are detected automatically — so you can keep your focus on your golf round. Wear your Apple Watch. Swing. DuffMate feels the motion and logs the shot. Tap in your putts and the score is recorded. Your iPhone stores your stats, replays your round, and now shows a live satellite GPS view of the hole you're playing — or lets you preview any course before you tee off. WHAT DUFFMATE DOES • Automatic shot detection — Developed by a fighter aircraft flight control designer with a wife learning the game, the Watch's motion sensors recognize the golf swing and does the counting. Adjustments are made with a quick tap. • Live GPS on your iPhone — a satellite view of the hole you're playing, front/center/back yardages, and tap-to-measure distance to anywhere on the map. Works for the round in progress or to scout a course ahead of time. • GPS distance to the green — yardage to the front, middle, and back on every hole. Distance from your last shot is provided, a big help for learning club distances. • Live wind — speed and direction to the hole on your wrist before you pick a club. • Putts, your way — tap to log putts separately from your shots. Turn them off if you'd rather not track them. • Real-time sync — your scorecard and shot history update to your iPhone as you play, hole by hole. • Scorecard & shot map — after the round, see your full scorecard with saved driving distances on par 4/5's. A satellite map shows where each full shot was taken. • Stats & personal bests — round history, scoring trends, best rounds, and personal records, all on your phone. WHAT YOU NEED An Apple Watch and an iPhone. No extra sensors, no extra gadgets, no subscriptions. YOUR PRIVACY Your rounds live on your iPhone and Watch. There are no accounts to create, no data sold, and no tracking. DuffMate reaches out for two things only: weather data for your round, and looking up your course. That's it. --- DuffMate is made for golfers who want to devote more focus to their round and less focus on counting strokes. And oh by the way - the app has features that the low handicappers depend on.