Analytics

Three apps. Three approaches to golf analytics. Arccos requires sensors. Shot Scope requires a watch. golfity requires nothing but your phone. Here is what each one actually delivers.

Sensor systems like Arccos and Shot Scope are useful, but you can build a serious analytics picture with nothing but a scorecard, a phone, and a few seconds per hole.

You sit between beginner and advanced, using analytics tools built around tour pros. Here is what your strokes gained should actually look like, and what your numbers tell you to do next.

Ten rounds is the point where your golf data starts becoming actionable. This audit shows exactly what to review and what to do next.

A handicap number tells you what you shot. Strokes gained tells you why you shot it. One scores the round, the other diagnoses the player — and you genuinely need both.

You add up off the tee, approach, around the green, and putting — and the number does not quite match the total. It is not a bug. Here is what is really going on under the hood.