Patent ID: 8529380

Claim:
A method for golf club recommendation on a portable apparatus including software executed by a processor configured to perform the steps of: providing user data related to a user, the user data including a user's gender, and handicap, and a plurality of golf clubs associated with the user; providing golf club data related to each golf club of the plurality of golf clubs, the golf club data including average yardages and deviation limits; determining a starting location of a shot on a golf course; determining an intended final location where the user intends to land a golf ball; accessing the golf club data for each golf club of the plurality of golf clubs; determining at least one recommended golf club for the user based on the golf club data; displaying the recommended golf club to the user; determining an actual golf club from the plurality of golf clubs used in the shot; determining an actual final location of the shot; calculating a distance between the starting location of the shot and the actual final location of the shot; calculating a deviation between the intended final location and the actual final location; storing, in a database, the calculated distance as corresponding to the actual golf club used in the shot; providing a predetermined deviation limit for the actual golf club; comparing the deviation between the intended final location and the actual final location to the deviation limit; marking the shot as a quality shot if the deviation is less than the deviation limit; and updating the golf club data for the actual golf club based on the deviation between the intended final location and the actual final location, and whether the shot was marked as a quality shot.