Greeni.com manual
- 1.0 Basic features
- 1.1 Registration
- 1.2 Starting out
- 1.2.1 Search
- 2.0 Player profile
- 2.1 Statistics
- 2.2 Clubs
- 2.3 Friends
- 2.4 Rounds
- 2.4.1 Player's own rounds
- 2.5 Courses
- 2.6 Mobile use during a round
- 3.0 Frequently asked questions
1.0 Basic features
GREENi player service will provide the golf player information about his game rounds, walking distance, length and position of his strokes. If player wishes he may add clubs he used for his strokes and the system will calculate average stroke distance and dispersion for every club. GREENi service also features a possibility to view and comment player's friends games, read and write reviews about clubs and much more.
During a golf round, the player may login to his GREENi account with his mobile phone and active game statistics will be shown such as distance to the next green from his position.
1.1 Registration
Registration is done in two ways. Either player has been registered by playing a round of golf with a GREENi device or the player may register himself by choosing the "Sign up now!" on the frontpage. In both ways a registration email will be mailed to the player and player will have to active his account through the link in the email. Before able to start using GREENi service the player must agree to the Terms of use and the Privacy Policy. All those players who have not done this will show as "Anonymous Player" in the GREENi service.
Lost passwords can be recovered by "Forgot your password?" link on the frontpage.
1.2 Starting out
After login the mainpage will be displayed. It displays current news, statistics and player information. At the top frame six different links will direct to the correspondent subpages. Home is frontpage, calendar displays rounds played in a calendar format, courses gives a list of the Golf Clubs, equipment is about clubs, statistics is where you find lots of interesting information and My Greeni is player's personal page.
1.2.1 Search
Anytime a search can be inquired in the right side of the page. Search can be made for players, events, courses, equipment etc. everything on the site.
2.0 Player profile
Profile is every GREENi user's personal page which is visible to all registered players. Player may wish to add information such as home golf club, age and handicap or even a picture of the player. All this is useful when wanting to compare and find friends who also use GREENi service. Through the profile page, the player can see details and statistics of his personal play. Even more interesting statistics become when player matches the clubs he has used for every stroke. This makes possible to view average distance of strokes and dispersion. All this to get that little extra knowledge about your game.
Editing
To edit player's profile picture select "Change photo" and select picture from file storage. Any details concerning profile can be edited pressing "Edit Profile".2.1 Statistics
In the statistics page, the service displays lots of information about game statistics. These values can be compared to the whole community or to an individual player. Just choose from the text boxes the desired comparison.
2.2 Clubs
Equipment meaning golf clubs is something that the GREENi users have to make a little effort to get full advantage of it. As the GREENi service can not guess which clubs the players use, they have tell (to tell? Told) the service themselves. When data concerning clubs and for which strokes they were used, is inserted into the GREENi service it then gathers statistics and presents valuable information. For example, player sees his average stroke distance for the club and also average stroke distance by rest of the GREENi users.
Viewing clubs
Equipment page lists of all the clubs that have been added by other players. Clubs may be filtered by brand and type. Clicking on any club will present review, statistics and players who use the club.
Player's bag and club statistics
When viewing a player's profile, including the player's own profile, the equipment page will display all the clubs the player has stated to possess. Distances of strokes made by each club can be viewed by choosing the "List View" option. "Group View" takes you back to original view.
Adding own clubs
Under the player's profile new clubs can be added by selecting "Edit Bag" from the right frame or equipment submenu and clicking "Add a club" and inserting club information. Also any club may be edited from the "Show and Edit" button.2.3 Friends
Friends is (are or "Friends page") all about sharing your golf experience with co-players. Whether it be to match you and your friend's strokes to the last detail after tight completion or to just see when your friend was playing and with who(whom).
Player's My Greeni page section Friends will show the player's friends recent activities such as games played, comments and comparison of statistics.
Adding and removing friends
Find correct player and open his GREENi page. Press "Invite as friend" and a friend request will be send to confirm. Player's friend requests are shown on the right side of the page under "My greeni" and request can be either accepted or declined. When a player is confirmed as a friend it can be removed by "Remove friend" from the friends GREENi page.2.4 Rounds
Player's golf rounds can be seen in the calendar view from the Calendar page or from player's My Greeni page. On the My Greeni page select one of the game pillars and selected game will be highlighted with gray color. At the bottom quick statistics from game can be seen and the whole round may be opened for closer inspection by pressing "Game details".
The results of the whole round are always shown at the top of the frame with strokes, HCP, birdies and other information. Information from a single hole can be opened by selecting the hole number or clicking the hole picture from the course map. To return to main view, click "Round". On any hole, the walking road, stroke lengths and comparison to other player's strokes can be viewed by clicking under the hole map image.
A printable size summary of the round can be printed by selecting "Printout". Note: There is a possibility to print the round at the Golf Club right after the round was played. When returning the GREENi device, ask more information from the caddiemaster.
Both rounds and individual holes can be commented, click on "Add a note" to comment about them. Your comments will be shown to all users.
2.4.1 Player's own rounds
Player may delete or edit his own games. Select "Delete" to completely erase the round or "Edit Game" to change games contemporary handicap, starting tee or team name.
Adding rounds manually
1. Go to the calendar view and press from the correspondent date plus (+) sign or2. Under "My Greeni" page player's profile pressing "Add Game / Scorecard" gives an option to add a new game that has not been tracked by the GREENi system before. Simply follow the instructions given.
To add missing strokes, used clubs
Player may add missing strokes to his holes by selecting the hole where stroke is missing and then pressing either "Add stroke" to add a stroke to end of the stroke list or clicking on the plus (+) sign when the stroke is added after the stroke where the plus was clicked. Removal of an extra stroke is done from the red cross. If the system accidently recorded player's stroke to earlier or later hole, the last or the first stroke may be moved by selecting one of the arrows after "Move first/last stroke" text.Player may mark the clubs he used for each of his strokes providing that the player has added clubs to his bag. Simply select the correct club from the drop-down list. It is recommended to leave the club as empty if the player has marked the stroke as a penalty stroke.
Stroke positions on the hole map can be edited pressing the "Edit strokes" at the left corner of the map. In this edit mode, drag and drop any stroke that has a number to its correct position. To save modifications click "Click to finish".
2.5 Courses
Courses page presents a list of all courses available on GREENi and possibility to filter them by country. When clicked on the golf club its GREENi page is opened.
2.6 Mobile use during a round
During a golf round, the player may login with his mobile phone to GREENi service to view active statistics about his game. Information regarding hole time, ideal round schedule, number of strokes so far and distance to the next green are all displayed in a simple text format. Note that distance to the green may take up to 10 seconds to update and distance is measured to the center of the green.
If the player wants to stay logged in, it is good to check the "Stay logged-in" box for convenient use.
3.0 Frequently asked questions
Question: I do not want to other players to know how well/bad I have been playing!
Others will understand if you are not such a serious golfer and enjoy other aspects of golf. Currently hiding rounds from others is disabled.
Question: My bogey points are incorrect.
At the moment all the golf clubs course ratings and slopes have not yet been imported to the system.
Question: All/some of my strokes are missing even I am certain that I pressed the GREENi device right amount of times.
We are sorry, but something has gone wrong. Data to server could have been corrupted, gps signal was too weak or some settings were incorrectly set. If the problem persists, please contact customer support.