Wireless18 News

It has become increasingly apparent over the last 12 months that the maintenance and development of Wireless18 has not been progressing at the rate it should.  The Wireless18 team have therefore taken the decision to collaborate with a new support and development group to deliver the next version of the website and phone app.

Your patience would be much appreciated over the next couple of weeks whilst we complete this handover and we will keep you updated on any new developments as they occur

Many thanks
Wireless18 team

New beta version of Wireless18 released today. It is available for all devices (blackberry, phone, etc) from our download page at wireless18.com/download .We will perform testing on this for the next 7 days and then release the final version on 9th Feb 2008. For the braver Golfers any testing help would be greatly appreciated. If you do find any problems with it please let us know at support@wireless18.com. I have made a few calls and already enlisted a not bad Golfer to help with the testing..

[UPDATE] Second BETA release V2.4.12 on 13th Feb. Please see comment below this post for details

We have released a new site containing the User Guide of how to use Wireless18 http://wireless18.wikidot.com
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We will use this site to publish all the information needed to help you use Wireless18. You can add or edit anything on these pages. No membership necessary to edit or add pages. Feel free to contribute and don’t worry about making mistakes as there are folks who can clean up anything.

We are pleased to announce that we have updated our site today adding the EGA handicap system. We have matched our calculations to be exactly those specified in the official EGA booklet. If you notice any difference from this or have any suggestions please do not hesitate to let us know.

Please click on the images below to see an example EGA handicap

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The EGA Handicap System is based on three cornerstones, the previously used handicapping systems in Europe, which are all modifications of the CONGU System, the USGA Course Rating System, and Stableford for Stroke control.

From today you will notice that your CONGU handicap has changed. Most probably it will have gone up!.

We had to implement this change because of the new (well okay it is not that new) Rule 19.8 of the CONGU handicapping system. This rule states that the maximum score allowed on any hole (for handicap calculation) is a NETT double bogey. Previously we were adjusting allowing only a maximum of a GROSS double bogey.

Thanks Darren for notifying us of this change to the CONGU handicap system

For each course you have played see all your statistics. These can be shown as a total average or stats per year. See all the statistics for your fellow Golfers and even compare yourself against Golfers in different handicap ranges.

Just view any course on the Wireless18 site and you will see a statistics box below the course’s general details section. This box has 3 tabs called ‘Everyones Statistics’, ‘Your Statistics’ and ‘Compare Statistics’

Everyones Statistics

Please click on this image to see an example ‘Everyones Statistics’. To close the image click ‘close’ in the bottom right corner of the image

So these are the statistics for all the Golfers who have played the course over the years. You will see that there are general statistics (lowest gross, par 3 avg, no. of birdies, etc) as well as a breakdown for each hole on the course (avergage SI, average score, etc).

Your Statistics

Please click on this image to see an example ‘Your Statistics’. To close the image click ‘close’ in the bottom right corner of the image

Shows the same statistics as in Everyones statistics but this time only using your rounds played on this course.

Compare Statistics

Please click on this image to see an example ‘Compare Statistics’. To close the image click ‘close’ in the bottom right corner of the image

This will show a comparisson of ‘Your Statistics with the statistics shown in the ‘Everyones Statistics’. It is colour coded where a green box means you are better than the other Golfers and red means you are worse. By adjusting what Golfers are used for the ‘Everyones Statistics’ box (see below) you can compare your self against Golfers in different handicap ranges and years.

Adjusting Years Shown and Ability of Golfers Used

At the top of the course statistics are these 2 options…

1. ‘Years Shown’ - allows you to select to show up to the last 4 years of course statistics so you can see improvements over the years.
2. ‘Played By Golfers’ - select a handicap range of the Golfers that should be used in the ‘Everyones Statistics’ and ‘Compare Statistics’ tab. Which allows you to compare your statistics against Golfers of different playing abilities.

Just a very small release which includes…

1. Fix for blackberry’s. Some blackberrys were having network problems (course downloads, posting scorecards, etc)
2. The ‘lock screen’ now shows the stableford points.

Welcome to our News Site, we will use this site to publish the latest news on Wireless18 and announce the new features. Please feel free to use this site to tell us your opinions.

Wireless18 is an Electronic Golf Scorecard…

That can be downloaded to any GPRS-enabled Java mobile or device (Blackberry, Palm, PocketPC, etc). Once you have it on your mobile, you have an easy way to keep track of your golf scores electronically and with well over 5000 golf courses available for download practicably a mobile golf club directory as well.

Plus your own Golfing Portal…

After your round you can post your card to your online golfing logbook at Wireless18.com. With all this data at your disposal, you can analyze your game just like the pros do. Identify the strengths and crucially, the weaknesses so that next time your are at the practice range, you know which aspects of the game to emphasize on.

And a Social network for Golfers…

Additionally Wireless18 acts a social network for golfers. You will be able to share your scores and stats with all the other 10,000+ worldwide Wireless18 golfers (i,e see if you can beat another Golfer in putting average, although he is better than you in driving accuracy)

We hope you enjoy Wireless18!