No more teasing. The 3rd generation Golf GameBook is here. This means we have updated just about everything! We believe that every golfer deserves a gallery and thus Golf GameBook is no longer only the industry’s most sophisticated digital scorecard and leading live scoring app for golfers, but a fully equipped social media platform – reserved for golf…
Every time we submit a new release of our app to Apple we include a description of what is new in that particular release. Many times this can be described as just “bug fixes”, but when we submitted this brand new version of GameBook we ended up writing “Actually we have updated everything in the…
Over the years, Kalle and I have discussed on several occasions what constitutes a successful golf round. There are factors that we can’t really affect like the weather, the course you are playing and the people you are playing with. However, the most important one of all is the score and the excitement the right game format can…
Our main focus with GameBook is enhancing the golf experience of the typical everyday golfers. But since that happens to include the best and most entertaining (at least in our opinion) live-scoring service on the planet, we didn’t want to leave our ex-colleagues out of the fun. Through the contacts we’ve built throughout the years we…
Playing golf has been a profession for myself and Mane for several years. Playing and practicing hasn’t only been a fun past-time for us, it has been the job that brings food to the table. Despite this aspect, golf has enriched both of our lives enormously, and given us experiences money can’t buy. Remember how…
We had just survived China and gotten our devices on the market when the smartphone industry exploded. Apple launched their first iPhone and even less tech-oriented guys like us (Yes, I can see the irony in that, but it is true) learned what the word “application” means in this context. No more than a couple…
Once we had come up with the idea and developed it into a business plan it was time to give birth to the 1st generation Golf GameBook – a handheld scoring device. The first GameBook devices were manufactured in China and us, two golfers from Finland, ended up getting a technical education on the side. It wasn’t…
It was the year 2006 and both me and the other GameBook co-founder Kalle Väinölä had spent most of our adult lives playing competitive golf. We had made it to tournaments on The Challenge Tour and even The European Tour, but hadn’t really succeeded in making the final breakthrough. As it began to dawn on…
The story of Golf GameBook began almost a decade ago. 10 years might not be a very long time in some contexts, but when it comes to anything digital the world looked very different back in 2006. So different in fact, that nobody really talked about digitalization (especially the digitalization of golf) and people weren’t…
In this blog Golf GameBook’s staff will discuss the app and Golf related topics – all for the sport we love.
We believe every golfer deserves a gallery to share experiences with other golfers and a diary to store their precious golf memories. That’s what GameBook is all about.
Golf GameBook app is like a clubhouse in your pocket. We offer you the most effective and social way to keep score in golf allowing you to connect with other golfers and share live results, comments, photos and videos – no matter where you are, on and off the golf course.
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The story of Golf GameBook began almost a decade ago. 10 years might not be a very long time in some contexts, but when it comes to anything digital the world looked very different back in 2006. So different in fact, that nobody really talked about digitalization (especially the digitalization of golf) and people weren’t glued to their smartphones like they are today. Actually the first ever iPhone didn’t come out until 2007.
So, when we first came up with the idea of Golf GameBook, it wasn’t an idea for a smartphone app. It was an idea for making golf even more fun and making some elements from the world of professional golf available for the everyday golfers. Since then Golf GameBook has evolved from a handheld scoring device into an iPhone app and one of the fastest growing golf communities on the planet, but our original goal hasn’t really changed.
Back in the day when we were still young (and had all of our blonde hair left) we decided to go on a mission to make golf even more fun. In this picture me (on the left) and Mane were still blissfully unaware of how far this mission would actually end up taking us.
Together with my good friend, business partner and the other co-founder of Golf GameBook, Mikko Manerus (or Mane as he is more commonly known as), we are still on a mission to make golf more fun. Whether we have succeeded in doing so is up for you to decide, but the journey sure has been fun. We’ve come a long way and now we are getting ready to launch a completely renewed version of our iOS app – the third generation Golf GameBook.
The two eager young fellas have grown into some serious business men over the past 10 years. Luckily, the twinkle in the eye we had in the beginning of this journey and the passion for what we are doing still remain.
As the launch of the completely renewed version on our iOS app is just around the corner, we felt the urge to reminisce a little and decided to share with you some of the interesting twists and turns we’ve come across over the years. During the next couple of weeks we will go through the history of Golf GameBook and tell you some stories behind how we got here. It has been quite a ride including highs and lows, bad decisions, funny coincidences as well as encounters with some of the best golfers in the world. So, I suggest you jump on board and follow the journey here on our blog.
We’ll publish a story approximately every second day and on Thursday Mane has promised to tell you how it all started.
– Kalle
@kallevainola & @GolfGameBook on Twitter