How to Read Your Round Summary in golfity
When you finish a round, golfity builds a swipeable round summary. Here is how to read every page, from the color-coded scorecard to your strokes gained breakdown, and turn it into your next practice plan.
The round summary is the screen golfity builds the moment you finish entering a round. It is not a single chart but a set of pages you swipe through, each one answering a different question about how you played. Spend a minute with it after every round and the round summary becomes the most useful post-round habit you have: a clear record of where your strokes went and what to work on next.
You reach it by opening any round from your home feed or the stats tab. The tabs across the top let you jump straight to a page, or you can swipe left to right through them in order.
Page 1: the scorecard
The first page is an enhanced scorecard. It carries the familiar layout, hole, par, distance, score, putts, and fairway, then adds a strokes gained column for every hole. Each cell is color-coded: green where you gained strokes against your benchmark, red where you lost them, with deeper shades marking the bigger swings.
This is the fastest read in the whole summary. A run of red in the off-the-tee column tells you driving cost you the round before you open anything else. Tap any cell to see the exact value, which separates a harmless -0.1 from a -1.5 that needs attention. The full breakdown is covered in our guide to the strokes gained scorecard.
Page 2: scoring
The scoring page turns your card into patterns. A bar chart counts how many eagles, birdies, pars, bogeys, and doubles-or-worse you made, so you can see the shape of the round at a glance.
Below that, golfity splits your scoring by hole par. You see your average on par 3s, par 4s, and par 5s, plus how many strokes over or under par each group cost you. Most amateurs are surprised to find their par 3s leak more strokes than their par 5s. The page closes with fairway accuracy, broken into short, left, fairway, and right, and greens in regulation by par.
Page 3: putting
The putting page starts with putts per hole, shown two ways: your average across all holes and your average on greens you hit in regulation. The GIR number is the honest one, because it strips out the one-putts you earned by chipping close.
Track shot by shot and the page goes deeper. It charts how many holes were one, two, or three putts, then a table of putts by the distance of your first putt. That table is where you learn whether your three-putts come from long lag putts or from missing inside ten feet, which point to completely different practice sessions.
How to read your round summary for strokes gained
The strokes gained page is the one that sets golfity apart, and it appears whenever you track a round shot by shot. It splits the round into the four categories from Mark Broadie’s research: off the tee, approach, around the green, and putting.
Bars stretching right mean you gained strokes on your benchmark; bars to the left mean you lost them. The page also labels which benchmark you are measured against, whether that is the PGA Tour or a handicap level like “10 hcp.” If the four-category view is new to you, start with how to read your strokes gained numbers. The single most valuable habit here is to find your worst category and let it set your next range session.
The shot pages: awful, best, and worst
Two more pages work from your shot data. The awful shots page lists the handful of swings that did the most damage, the double-cross off the tee or the chunked chip that turned a par into a double. Fixing these blow-ups is often the easiest path to lower scores, because you do not have to play better golf, just avoid the disasters.
The best and worst shots page is the balance: your standout shots of the day next to the ones that hurt most, each measured in strokes gained rather than gut feel.
Reading it in order
The pages are built to be read top to bottom. The scorecard shows you what happened, scoring and putting explain the traditional numbers behind it, and strokes gained tells you which part of your game actually decided the score. By the time you reach the shot pages, you already know where to look.
Make this a thirty-second routine after every round and the trends sharpen fast. To compare these numbers across your whole history rather than one round, the stats tab pulls everything together, and the features page covers the rest of what golfity tracks.
