App Profile: Golf Channel

SimbaW

Rating: 5/5

Worst app upgrade ever. i used to use this app everyday for stories, news, and videos. Now, I only use it when i have to watch the broadcast. It’s just pathetic. Whoever redesign this version seemed to only have graduated from high school and worked as a freelancer as a app designer. I couldn’t read the articles because the letters are too small. I have no way of adjusting it. I can figure out what layout configuration its using for it makes no sense. Everything is put together haphazardly as if by chance. No logic in how things are catergorized. One more time, it is pathetic！

Lawman299

Rating: 2/5

I have never written an app review before, but after years of using the Golf Channel app with only one complaint (more on that in the next paragraph), I feel compelled to say that your latest upgrade is one of the worst upgrades to any app I have ever used. The fonts are so small that text can barely be seen and so gray that text can hardly be distinguished from the background. There's way too much white space between names and scores and between one name and the next, so you can't gather in a lot of information all at once, and there's no box or line (just the faint word "Leaderboard" separating favorite players from the full field scores. My one consistent complaint is the backseat that the LPGA takes in the "Tournaments this Week" list and, usually, in the "News" section. Disappointing.

topps206

Rating: 1/5

Short version: I accepted the previous version’s redo of the presentation of the app grudgingly thinking I’d get accustomed to it. Now an update comes in and the only layout allowed is portrait. Into the dumper the app goes; I’ll use the web page or another app instead. Long version: I keep the Golf Channel app in my iPad dock as it is, but now was, my go-to golf news app. I also use my iPad exclusively in landscape mode, unless I have no choice for an app I need. The version that was in place for years was, to me, logical, easy to navigate, and gave me the info I needed in the format I liked. Then the n-1 version came out, the articles and sections were redone to the point where it took some effort to find what previously easily was accessed. I thought it was a change I’d get used to over time. Then the current version, #477, came out, and, despite the splash screen presenting in landscape mode, once the content is filled, the screen flips to portrait mode, with no options I can find to override that in the settings panel. Bottom line, the app will leave my dock, the app will be put in the dust bin and I’ll find my golf news elsewhere. It was fun while it lasted.