Sport Analytics - How Coretex Transformed Golf Training

Dragana Pavlović
14.3.2024
User Experience
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The partnership between BioMech Putt and Coretex provides golfers with invaluable insights into their putting strokes. The real-time data processed by Coretex helps golfers understand their stroke dynamics, identify inconsistencies, and work towards building a more consistent and fundamentally sound putting stroke.


BioMech Putt and Coretex partnerhship

Perfecting the putting stroke in golf is a lifelong pursuit. For many, achieving consistency and precision on the greens remains a challenge. The BioMech Putt app and sensors, a game-changing equipment, promise to unlock the secrets of the putting stroke. What sets it apart is not just its portability and real-time feedback but the crucial role played by Coretex in processing and interpreting the data it generates.

Golfers, both amateur and professional, often struggle to gain deep insights into their putting strokes. While feel plays a role, quantifiable data is essential for meaningful improvement. The BioMech sensor, with its advanced technology, captures a multitude of metrics, including tempo, acceleration, face angle at impact, loft, and putter path. However, the challenge lies in efficiently processing this data to derive actionable insights.

Prior to adopting Coretex, BioMech engineers had to manually develop algorithms for putt stroke detection, a time-consuming and imprecise process. It lacked the accuracy required. However, with the introduction of Coretex, this changed significantly. Now, all sensor-collected data goes through the Coretex platform. Pipelines are automatically triggered when a putting event occurs, ensuring that measurements are processed with a high degree of accuracy, surpassing the previous manual procedures. As more data is collected and processed, Coretex continues to enhance its models through retraining and redeployment, achieving even greater accuracy.

The partnership between BioMech Putt and Coretex provides golfers with invaluable insights into their putting strokes. The real-time data processed by Coretex helps golfers understand their stroke dynamics, identify inconsistencies, and work towards building a more consistent and fundamentally sound putting stroke.

One golfer's journey with the BioMech Putt app revealed his stroke's unpredictability. By analyzing data, he identified strokes with good acceleration and square impact, contrasted with strokes featuring longer backstrokes, poor acceleration, and less square impact. Armed with this information, he decided to experiment with putting left-handed, which turned out to be a game-changer, significantly reducing his number of putts.

Beyond improving putting skills, this use case exemplifies how Coretex enhances data processing and analysis across various domains, making it a valuable asset in the world of sports and beyond. With Coretex, the game within the game becomes an exciting journey towards precision and excellence in golf and other fields requiring data-driven insights.

Dragana Pavlović
March 14, 2024