Mondays are slow days for the printed media. and April 16, must have been the slowest in the history of the Daily Camera.
The front page articles discussed Hessie Trailhead parking, the war in Afghanistan, 4/20 at CU, homeless housing,
Earth Day, closing day at Eldora Ski area, and a golf application for the Indian Peaks Golf Course. The latter two sports-related articles, with pictures, filled over half of the column inches on the page. If hiking and pot smoking are considered as recreational activities then about 80% of the front page was related to sports.
Focusing on the golf app…
While the article, “There’s an App for that Golf Stroke,” was interesting, it was essentially a free front-page advertisement for golf, Indian Peaks, and the application.
The main benefits of this app are that it allows golfers to pinpoint their GPS location on the course, determine yardage to the green, and alert the user of any hazards between their position and the green. Many other products provide some of these services – one of them is called a scorecard.
In addition, users will also be able to use the app to pull up canned tips from the golf pro for each hole, order food, schedule tee times, and sign up for golf lessons. The article did not state whether the app would eliminate the need for beer cart women, say a prayer prior to shots out of a trap, locate balls lost in the rough, or retrieve them from the water hazards. For many golfers, these are the essentials of the sport.
I lacked a full appreciation for the cell-phone game application Angry Birds when it first came out. Unfortunately the value of this application is also lost on me.