Getting Started with golfity: A Complete Guide
New to golfity? This getting started guide walks you through account setup, club configuration, tracking your first round, and reading your strokes gained stats.
This golfity tutorial takes you from a fresh download to your first round of tracked stats. Getting started takes about five minutes, and most of that is a one-time setup you never have to repeat. By the end you will know how to log a round and read the strokes gained numbers that tell you where your shots are actually going.
Create Your Account
Open golfity and you will see a short walkthrough explaining how shot tracking and strokes gained work. Tap through it, then sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook, or an email address.
Your account syncs across devices, so a round started on your phone shows up everywhere you log in. There is no separate password to manage if you use a social sign-in.
Tell golfity Your Handicap
During setup, golfity asks for your rough handicap range: scratch, single digit, mid, high, or beginner. This is not about scoring you. It picks the right benchmark to compare your shots against.
A 15-handicap measured against a scratch golfer will look like they are losing strokes everywhere, which is useless feedback. Measured against a fellow 15-handicap, the same round shows where you are genuinely ahead or behind players at your level. You can change this benchmark later, and it is worth reading why comparing to a 10-handicap often beats comparing to a pro.
Set Up Your Clubs
Open your profile and edit your golf bag so it matches the clubs you actually carry. golfity ships with a standard set (driver, woods, irons, wedges, putter), and you adjust it by adding or removing clubs.
Accurate clubs matter because golfity ties shot distances to the club you hit. After a handful of rounds, you get reliable average distances per club, which removes the guesswork from club selection on the course.
Play Your First Round
Tap Play, search for your course, pick your tees, and start. golfity gives you three ways to enter a round, and you can pick a different one each time:
- Total score: enter your final number for 9 or 18 holes. Fast, but limited to score history.
- Hole by hole: record strokes, putts, fairways, and greens for each hole. Good traditional stats with little effort.
- Shot by shot: log distance and lie for every shot. This is the only method that unlocks full strokes gained analysis.
For your first round, try hole by hole if you want a gentle start, or jump straight to shot by shot if you are ready for the full picture. The guide to tracking a round breaks down each method in detail. If on-course speed worries you, golfity also lets you skip club selection and accuracy tracking to keep entry under a few seconds per shot.
Read Your Stats After the Round
When you finish, golfity calculates your stats immediately. The home feed shows a strokes gained chart for every round, split into four categories:
- Off the tee: your driving on par 4s and 5s
- Approach: shots into the green, including par 3 tee shots
- Around the green: chips and pitches inside 30 yards
- Putting: performance on the greens
Bars extending right mean you gained strokes on your benchmark; bars extending left mean you lost them. One round is a snapshot, but after five or six you will start seeing patterns. Tap any round for the hole-by-hole breakdown, or open the stats tab to see trends across your whole history.
What to Do Next
The value compounds with data. Track a few more rounds and your averages stabilize, your weakest category becomes obvious, and your practice time stops being a guess.
From there, explore the rest of golfity: follow friends and compare your games, watch your distance per club tighten up, and use the strokes gained calculator to understand exactly how a single shot earns or loses a fraction of a stroke. Play your next round with shot by shot tracking on, and you will have a clear map of where your scores are coming from.
