{"id":308029,"date":"2025-11-25T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:15:13","slug":"golf-business-news-full-swing-unveils-prize-golf-gaming-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308029\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Business News – Full Swing unveils prize golf gaming platform\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full Swing<\/a>, the official licensed golf simulator of the PGA Tour, has launched a skill-based gaming platform called \u2018Skill Strike\u2018 that offers the chance to win cash payouts for golf simulator play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rather than competing against other golfers, the new feature, which can be used in home or commercial simulator locations, allows participants to pay an entry fee, take a swing, and potentially win money by outperforming their expected shot-making abilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Essentially, players are competing against themselves and their algorithm-derived expected shot outcome, so it levels the playing field between scratch players and less-experienced golfers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSkill Strike is an unprecedented shift in skill-based gaming,\u201d said Full Swing Chief Operating Officer Jason Fierro. \u201cIt essentially creates a real-time dynamic handicap for golfers of any skill level and allows them to win money so long as they perform above their personalized expected outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Skill Strike platform is run by patented AI technology from Evenplay that analyses real-time tracking data from Full Swing simulators and uses machine learning to calibrate each challenge to an individual\u2019s skill level.<\/p>\n

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Target sizes and distances automatically adjust on every attempt, with tiered payouts depending on how close a given shot lands to the hole. Players can win up to eight times their entry fee, which range from $3 to $20. There are also separate prizes available for holes-in-one.<\/p>\n

As for possible gaming of the system, the AI technology looks at key swing indicators and can detect if swing mechanics are different from shot-to-shot and adjust the targets for subsequent shots in an accelerated fashion. This will eliminate good golfers being set easy targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe built our AI specifically to solve a problem that\u2019s plagued golf gaming forever: how do you make it fair and fun for everyone?\u201d said Evenplay<\/a> co-founder and CEO Bryan O\u2019Reilly, whose Las Vegas-based company is pioneering skill-based gaming through AI. \u201cFull Swing\u2019s precision tracking data gives us the perfect foundation to create truly personalized challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full Swing, the official licensed golf simulator of the PGA Tour, has launched a skill-based gaming platform called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-308029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}