Golf-related apps were “among the early entrants in Apple’s App Store and the Android Market, but the software lineup has improved significantly with time,” according to the N.Y. TIMES' Bob Tedeschi, who reviews several of the apps currently available. The newest, The Tiger Woods: My Swing app, is "also the best,” as it is “the coolest and most refined swing-improvement app I’ve seen.” My Swing includes “some nice touches to help capture a good swing for viewing” and “places optional colored lines over your swing, representing the planes that Tiger Woods deems most important to a good golf stroke with each club in the bag.” It is “excellent instruction -- insightful, but not so much information that a golfer would struggle to remember everything.” My Swing developer Shotzoom offers other apps for golf instruction, including Paul Azinger’s Golfplan, which “is also quite good, if not quite as elegant as My Swing.” The app cost $1 and “offers an enormous amount of value,” featuring a “deep library of instructional videos” with Azinger. Android users "have nothing even close to this good for $1, but iSwing Golf offers some solid value for $3." That app is "closer to My Swing than Golfplan, in that users film themselves swinging a club and analyze the swing with slow-motion replays." Videos can be added for $4 from golfer Adam Scott "to help understand a model swing" (N.Y. TIMES, 5/5).
