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Brandon Henak posted June 08 (12:12PM)

	Course Description from New Berlin Hills
	COURSE: New Berlin Hills Golf Course
	This par-71 layout offers 18 holes of enjoyable golf that pose a challenge to golfers at every level of play. The course at New Berlin Hills, which originally opened in 1907 as Woodmont Country Club, has long been a favorite among golfers in Southeastern Wisconsin. New Berlin Hills offers two very different yet challenging nine-hole ligatures. The Front Nine is intertwined with the Root River that gently meanders through five holes. Meanwhile, the Back Nine’s rolling hills and serene wooded landscapes will make you forget that you’re still in an urban setting. With three sets of tees to choose from, the course plays from 5,346 yards to 6,517 yards. Manicured to a level of excellence typically found only at exclusive country clubs, New Berlin Hills offers excitement and surprises around every dogleg and over every bunker. I’ll have my own review up Sunday after I play it.
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Brandon Henak posted June 04 (02:58PM)

	Great Milwaukee Course Information

	I found this site the other day through google. Definitely a good read outside of the reviews right here on Golf Buzz: http://www.uwm.edu/~reisel/golf/golfintro.html
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Brandon Henak posted June 02 (11:16AM)

	golfbuzz.com Improvements

	This site is great, very helpful for tracking, self improvement and course discovery. However, I think there is definitely room for improvement. Here are some ideas: 1. Once a user puts in yardage, handicap,etc on a given course, let others reuse those numbers, it’s a pain to put them in every round. 2. Allow users to designate or suggest the pictures for a given course if the upload it so there are not so many course with the default picture. 3. Provide some sort of incentive for reviewing course and inputting data that makes the system more valuable and keeps it up to date. 4. Only allow each user to review each course once but, let them change their review if they want. Repeated reviews skew scores. If you have a differing experience, change your review or blog about it. 5. Allow blog entries to be associated with a given round. 6. Allow users to add friends as the people they played a specific round with so they can see stats like how many rounds they won or how many times they played with a given person. Anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks for a great system, I have brought in seven friends and counting!
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pcoulson posted June 02 (02:15PM)

Brandon,
Thanks for the feedback and I have to agree with you there is room for a ton of improvement on the GolfBuzz website. Number 1, 4, and a version of 6 are all on our short term road map. I will address each item with the “GolfBuzz” thought on each the items. Maybe you or other users can add to the list. Ultimately this site is everyones and it will only be successful if it reflects what golfers wants so we encourage suggestions/comments.
1. We will be doing a system wide update where we load on all the hole by hole course information. The ideal scenario would be one where golfers never have to add the hole by hole information. We know courses make modifications so we will also still allow people to update the scorecards with the changes being shared. We are also going to allow you to update the course information so the profiles can be more complete. There is no better expert than the people playing the courses.
2. Currently users can upload pictures to courses. This is achieved from the “photo” tab within your profile. Simply log in, click the photo tab on your dashboard, add photos, and follow the instructions. When uploading you can select one of your “My Courses” to attach it to. This will add the photo to your personal library and to the course detail page.
3. This is a great idea. Any suggestions? Maybe a monthly giveaway where we select a reviewer at random?
4. We totally agree and this is a known bug in the system that we have on our list to fix. It is always a balance between fixing “low” prioity bugs and adding new functionality. It is always a hard call.
5. This is a great suggestion. one we have not heard before but one that we should add. There is a notes section but using the blog here might be better. Maybe we could even add a link back to your round in Game Tracker so people could view your stats for the round.
6. This is another feature that is on the short term list. We are going to make some major changes to the Game Tracker. Using people from your friends list and allowing to use clubs that are in your bag are among the changes. The other Game Tracker changes are veiled in secrecy but they will definitely be worth the wait.
If you have any other suggestions for the system please let us know.
Patrick

dougeeboy posted June 07 (12:15AM)

Need the opportunity to input courses worldwide
Cheers
Dougeeboy