How to Fix a Mis-Tracked Shot in golfity

Everyone mis-taps. You log a 40-foot lag as a 4-footer, you mark the approach from the fairway when the ball was sitting in first cut, or you walk off the 12th and realize the drop never got recorded. None of it is permanent. You can edit a golf shot in golfity at any point, and fixing a tracking mistake takes about ten seconds once you know which cell to tap.

Every value in a shot row is editable in place. You do not delete the hole and start over.

The shot table is the edit screen

Open any hole you have tracked shot by shot and you get a table with one row per shot: shot number, lie, distance, accuracy, club, and the strokes gained value for that shot.

Each of those cells is a button. Tap the lie cell on shot 3 and the lie picker opens. Tap the distance cell and the distance input opens with the current value ready to change. The same table appears whether you are still playing the hole or reopening a round from three weeks ago, so there is only one thing to learn.

Two cells are locked on purpose. Shot 1’s lie is always the tee, and a penalty row has no distance of its own, since a penalty stroke is charged to the shot that caused it rather than being played from a spot on the course.

How to edit a golf shot during your round

You are standing on the green and notice the drive is logged from the rough when it was actually in the fairway.

1. Stay on the hole you are playing, or use the hole navigation at the bottom to go back to the hole with the error.
2. Find the row for that shot in the table.
3. Tap the cell you need to change: Lie, Dist, Acc, or Club.
4. Pick the correct value in the sheet that opens.

The change saves to the round as soon as you choose it, and the SG column for that row recalculates before you have put the phone back in your pocket. There is no separate save step while a round is in progress.

Fixing errors on the hole where they happen is worth the habit. Your memory of a 6-iron that came up short and right is far better on the next tee than it is in the parking lot four hours later.

How to fix a tracking mistake after you save the round

Finished rounds are just as editable.

1. Open the round from your rounds list.
2. Tap Edit.
3. Tap the hole you want to correct. The same shot table opens.
4. Change the cells that are wrong.
5. Tap Save Round.

The stats for the round rebuild from the corrected shots when you save. Reopen the round summary rather than trusting a screen you already had loaded, since a stale view will still be showing the old numbers. Our guide on reading your round summary in golfity covers which pages to check.

Adding a shot you forgot, or removing one you never hit

The action bar under the table has Add Shot and Remove Shot.

Remove Shot deletes the last shot on the hole, and it deletes it immediately without a confirmation dialog. That makes it perfect for the case where you double-tapped and ended up with a phantom stroke on the end of the hole.

For a shot missing from the middle of a hole, you have two options. You can remove shots back to the gap and re-enter them, which is clean but tedious on a long hole. More often it is faster to leave the row count alone and correct the values in place, then use Add Shot to append the extra stroke at the end. The strokes gained math cares about the lie and distance on each row, not about which order you tapped them in.

A forgotten penalty is the one worth going back for. It is a full stroke, and it lands on the shot that put you in trouble. Skipping it flatters your driving numbers for the whole round. How strokes gained handles recovery shots and penalties explains the accounting.

What each fix actually changes

Not all mis-tracks are equally expensive. Approximate tour baseline values make the difference concrete.

A wrong putt distance is the big one. Two putts from 40 feet is roughly a 2.09 expected-strokes position, so it scores about +0.09. Log that same lag as 4 feet and you are two-putting from a 1.13 position, which scores about -0.87. One mis-tap swings that hole by nearly a full stroke and drags your putting numbers down with it.

A wrong lie is a smaller correction. An approach from 150 yards is about 2.98 expected strokes from the fairway and about 3.15 from the rough. Mislabeling it costs you roughly 0.17 of a stroke on that shot, which matters over a season but will not distort a single round.

The club column is the one you can relax about. It changes no strokes gained at all, because club selection feeds your distance and dispersion breakdowns, not the strokes gained calculation. Fix it when you care about club data, and do not lose sleep over an old round where the 7-iron is labeled as an 8.

Expect other numbers to move when you save an edit. Correcting the approach distance changes the value of the tee shot before it, because every shot is scored against where the previous one finished. That cascade is normal, and why strokes gained changes after editing a round walks through which numbers should shift and which should not.

Fewer fixes needed

The corrections you never have to make are the ones you avoid on the course. Pace the distance to the hole before you putt rather than guessing at it afterwards, log the penalty at the drop instead of at the next tee, and glance at the SG column as you go. A shot showing -0.90 when you thought you hit a decent one usually means a typo, not a bad swing.

If the same error keeps showing up in your rounds, the most common golf tracking mistakes is worth a read.