Palm Pre Golf GPS Apps

If you have an iPhone, you have a huge assortment of golf GPS apps at your fingertips; if you are using a Palm Pre, on the other hand, you don’t have a lot to chose from. Hopefully, developers will get on the Palm Pre bandwagon (the Palm Pre bandwagon may not be ready to depart just yet, but you never know), and start creating quality golf GPS apps. Right now there are a few good apps to chose from; whether they will ever become as popular as some of their counterparts for the iPhone remains to be seen. So here are four apps that you might try.

• IntelliGolf Eagle. The IntelliGolf Eagle “OTA” edition will work on the Palm Pre if you have MotionApps’ “Classic mode” software installed. (See the Intelligolf’s website for details.) Intelligolf Eagle edition includes satellite GPS, shot tracking, statistics and graphs, scorecard, sidegame wagers, and boasts a whopping 26,000 courses in its database. You can download a fully functional free trial that you can use for three rounds of golf. So make to give it a go before you buy. Only $29.99.
  
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• FreeCaddie. With the free version you only get the distances to the front, center, and back of greens. Enough to get by (and certainly enough to see if you like it enough to buy). To get features you really want like distances to bunkers and hazards, a shot distance function, the ability to map your own points, or statistics and score keeping, then you will will have to spend $24.95 to upgrade to FreeCaddie Pro. This is still not a bad price. There are over 14,000 courses available and you can map your own with FreeCaddie’s Course Creator.
  

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• GolfPinFinder is a golf GPS app that give’s you distances to the front, center and back of the green, tee box, and up to 5 custom points per hole. It uses courses from the BBGPSGolf database; there are about 8500 course currently available. If your course is not there, you can easily use the BBGPSGolf course creator to add it to the database. This can be a blessing in disguise. You might be a bit peeved that it is not there (it is after all a $9.99 app); but if you map the course yourself, you will have it exactly the way you want it. Anyway, you can try it free for 14 days, plenty of time to decide if its something you want to buy.
  

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• Golf Caddie. Golf Caddie supplies the standard distances to the front, center, and back of each green, as well as five custom points per hole. You can mark the distances of your shot, keep score for up to four players, track your handicap, and keep track of statistics like total putts, greens in regulation, and fairways hit. It also uses the course database at BBGPSGolf and is also $9.99 at the Palm App Catalog.

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