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Three cool ways golfers are using Instagram's Hyperlapse

September 02, 2014

Hyperlapse, an app that Instagram released last Tuesday, makes it possible for all of us to shoot time-lapse videos with nothing more than our iPhones. The app's interface is incredibly simple (open it, tap the screen to focus, then hit record), and it lets you document up to 45 minutes of video (if you're using an iPhone 5) that you can then boil down to as little as three minutes and 45 seconds.

Here's how three golfers have used Hyperlapse:

To show how the driving range at Chelsea Piers is cleaned up:#iframe://instagram.com/p/sXi-q2k56Y/embed/||| To show off some major trick-shot skills:#iframe://instagram.com/p/sQwGumnR_l/embed/||| To document an intense practice session:#iframe://instagram.com/p/sV4QjnoQi3/embed/|||

Some early tips for those of you who are interested in making cool Hyperlapse videos: