Can AI apps help your golf swing?

5 min read JOHN PAUL NEWPORT 10 Apr 2021, 05:13 PM IST

I don’t think they are as good as a human instructor. But they can be helpful. And they are a lot cheaper.

To date, PGA Tour pros have been far better able than amateurs to take advantage of the new wave of analytic golf data. It makes sense: Being pros, they and their swing coaches are looking for the smallest deviations from perfection. Many tour pros these days travel with personal $25,000 TrackMan radars and work with other high-tech gear back home.