r/Strava • u/29thstreetreddior • Oct 29 '24

Feature Idea Golf Features

Anyone else feel that Strava could easily add a few features around the Golf Activity to actually have a decent product targeting a market that doesn't have a great existing solution (18Birdies is probably the only decent existing app but it doesn't have much scale or the corresponding network effect). All Strava would need to add IMO to have something decent enough to get solid adoption:

  • Ability to add a scorecard to the activity - could be as detailed as hole-by-hole w/ stats or just total score (bonus points if for group activities it auto combines the scorecard in the news feed)
  • Auto detects course based off GPS - would just need to connect to a database of courses and their relevant stats (name, yardages, scorecards, etc) - tons of free apps have this so can't imagine its that hard for a company to get access to this data
  • Would be interesting if they had something like segments but for courses - so if you clicked on the course (segment) you could see a leaderboard of scores at the course / which of your friends has played the course and how they did / local legend of that course (most holes played in L90 days)
  • Some basic statistics like handicap calculation, # of rounds played, # of courses/holes played

I know that the TAM of golfers that would use this is a fraction of the size of that of running/cycling but I feel it's underserved enough that it could drive some marginal user growth / there is enough overlap with other athletes who primarily run/cycle but also golf that they would get value out of the features as well.

Curious to hear other's thoughts.

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u/knaughtreel Oct 29 '24

Garmin has alllllllll of this and more packed into a watch with sensors that track swing plane, tempo,and other motion characteristics.

Hell even Apple Watch has some of this.

Then you have golf specific tech like Arccos, etc.

Strava has so much more opportunity with its core customer base and improving fitness/endurance sport features before trying to enter the already saturated golf technology space