PGA Tour Shot Tracker Flex App Demo
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I spent the better half of this year working on a cutting-edge Flex application at Schematic for the PGA Tour. The application is their official shot tracker and it is publicly accessible for free from the PGA Tour website. Since the application is only active during tournaments, which are typically every Thursday-Sunday, many of you probably haven’t had the opportunity to check it out. Fortunately, the PGA Tour just released a demo video which demonstrates the application. If you are interested, here is a link to the demo:
http://www.pgatour.com/shottracker/demo/
Also, here is a direct link to the application itself:
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wow. that is truly an amazing app. This might become the preferred way to experience golf vs. tv. I can’t think of any other sport that would benefit from something like this. I luuv nerding out on stats of the MLB gamecast, but still prefer to watch in HD if I have the option. Trying to cover a whole gang of folks playing simultaneously hundreds of yards away from each other just got easier.
looks like a fun project.
Awesome app!
Curious on how big your team is on developing an app like this (flex developers, designers, back-end)?
Thanks, guys.
@Mark - During the peak of development, we (Schematic) had four Flex developers (including myself) working on it. The design was handled by Turner Sports; they had two or three designers working on it at any given point in time. The back-end work was split up between the PGA Tour and Turner Sports; combined there were probably an average of five or six developers working on data delivery.
First off, this is a great app; definitely something the PGA needed to do to keep up with the tech crowd. I was wondering if the back-end data, if not stored in a propietary format, is avaible anywhere on the web. The MLB Gamecast data, for example, is all stored via XML files on a website that, while not publicly promoted, is publicly available. The data is free to view and download. I’m wondering if there is such a data store available for the shot tracker data.