Grow Golf: Stanford Men's Golf Pioneers Live Scoring by Golf GameBook

ESPOO, Finland, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Stanford Men's Golf scored its qualifying rounds for the 22^nd Amer Ari Invitational in January with live scoring and leaderboards made possible by the free GameBook Live Golf Scorecard iPhone app - and has since continued to live score their qualifying rounds with GameBook. The team now also engages their fans by sharing the live leaderboards on the team's social media pages.

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- GameBook enabled us to be the very first collegiate team with live scoring during a team qualifying event. It certainly added a great deal to the fun of the day, especially when birdies were flying on the back nine and the low round title came down to the last hole, says Stanford Men's Golf Head Coach Conrad Ray.  - Loving the GameBook for our play. It just doesn't make sense to do it any other way. The guys love to know where they stand when everything is on the line. It's more fun that way, continues Assistant Coach Philip Rowe.

Friends, family and fans of the players and the team can now follow and comment on the games live on the Internet or through their own iPhones.  - GameBook was extremely proud to provide live scoring for Stanford. The team has an impressive record with 8 national championships, says PGA pro and GameBook's CEO/co-founder Kalle Väinölä.  - GameBook also enables college players and everyone else to collect personal statistics to improve their game and compare them with other players.

GameBook recently introduced personal leaderboards for every golfer where each game created with the GameBook app comes with a live leaderboard link for the player to share by e-mail or on their favorite social media or web page. This is the first time in the history of golf that technology allows everyone to share their on-course experience live with friends and family.

Fast, intuitive and simple to use, the free GameBook Live Golf Scorecard iPhone app provides pro quality real-time scoring, stats and live leaderboards for individual and team games. With GameBook, players can connect to the entire event unfolding around them and follow their standings hole-by-hole. Together with the free GameBook Clubhouse web community, players and their friends can follow each other's play from their iPhones or online, write comments, post photos, keep and compare stats, build a network of golfing friends, post scores on Facebook, and much more.

About GameBook

GameBook was founded by PGA professionals and junior golf mentors with the vision of making golf more relevant, fun and welcoming to all with the aid of today's smartphone technology. British Open champion Stewart Cink and European Tour player Mikko Ilonen have also contributed to the making of GameBook. The free GameBook Live Golf Scorecard iPhone app includes real-time scoring, live leaderboards and a social community, all built-in, for individual and team games.  The app connects to GameBook's web community at http://www.golfgamebook.com where scores and statistics get stored and where golfers can continue building their network of golfing friends and follow their friends' games real-time. GameBook just introduced a live leaderboard link for any team or league to share on their favorite social media site or web page to engage their friends, family and fans. An Android version of the smartphone application is being developed. GameBook is a US and EU registered trademark of GameBook Oy, Finland.

For more information, please contact:
Kalle Vainola, PGA member, co-founder and CEO, GameBook Oy
Tel. +358-400-955-955 | [email protected] | http://www.golfgamebook.com

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