MyEG 4+

After taking up golf again couple years ago I was determined to get official handicap again and the MyEG app is certainly very helpful in keeping the HCP up to date but it does need some polishing. For starters it takes way to long to load and does seem very basic. More easier to find information about what rounds count towards the HCP would be good rather than having to trawl loads of webpages to find that table that shows the information.

Another feature I’d like to see is the option to have friends auto populated on the attester page rather than having to search via clubs to find someone you might play with multiple times a week. Just have a favourites section there and waiting as well as the search function currently in use.

Aside from problems connecting in rural spaces and insisting you use your at the golf club (which is frowned soon or downright banned in many clubhouse and on courses themselves) this app is far too restrictive. For something designed to attract new people to the game it’s too rooted in old-world stuffy golfer thinking.

It assumes that people will cheat and be dishonest about scores and so restricts how and when you can up load them, insisting you’re near or on the course you’ve played and can corroborate your score with an existing member of the course you’re playing. This doesn’t reflect many people’s playing patterns and as such means it’s very cumbersome to get the required criteria to upload a round.

You’d have to be pretty dedicated to use this, and I think you might as well join a course as try to use this stupid and compromised excuse by a governing body to extract money from casual players while trying to appease a clearly frustrated membership who they’re likely undercutting. Nice try but neither robust enough to deliver integrity it tries so desperately to offer nor accessible enough to be used easily in the real world of casual golf.

Nice to have the app up and running so soon so we’ll done England golf. I’m sure over time new and improved features will be added. The main thing you need to do right away is make the Current handicap index much bigger and clearer. The main reason for this app is to quickly check your current index to then work out shots you receive on the day. Currently it’s very small at the top above the score graph. At the same time the list of your most recent scores and the index you had on your last round is more visible. As a Club Secretary I have noticed players use that much clearer figure thinking it’s their current index without noticing the small correct one at the top.

Make it bigger MYEG!! It’s the main info we all need to be correctly identified and then used.

Overall though it’s great to have quick access app and Keep up the good work!