YourGolf Online is a GPS-enabled golf logging mobile app that allows you to record at which courses you have played, how you made approach shots, and how what scores you have earned. Golf players will no longer have to note their scores on a piece of paper, as the app is now available on Android devices and the iPhone, and is being used in 188 countries all around the world.
Three years ago, the app was developed by Asai, Inc., a system development company based in Tokyo and China’s Fuzhou city. Mr. Kenji Saikami who used to be a project manager of the app spun it out, and he launched a new company called YourGolf Online.
“60 percent of our users has come from outside Japan, and more than 200,000 users are active on a monthly basis,” the company’s CEO Saikami explains. As reasons for their success, he pointed to two advantages: there’s no other competing service and there is little language barrier because it is a sport app. For speeding it up globally, their app is available in English and compatible with both metric and empirical systems (meters versus yards).
It has a web-based user dashboard for an access with PC, allowing users to see how they have made approaches in past games with a Google Earth animation they call “Virtual Replay.” The company wants to make this a sort of golf-playing version of Usream Live and, as it’s recorded, and they expect the service as to show users how professional golfers are playing or have played with a bird’s-eye or satellite view.
In order to accelerate their user traction, CEO Saikami (right in the picture above) and his buddy Michiyasu Yabuki (left) are now visitng in Singapore to meet with Asian Tour, the official regional sanctioning body for professional golf in Asia. We’ve heard they will be staying in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur from December 4th (Sunday) to the 9th (Friday) to seek potential partnerships with local sport-related businesses in the region. If you have any interest in the team and their app, we recommend you to drop them a line for an interview or future partnerships.
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