Analytics

A launch monitor shows how a club performs in a fitting bay. Your round data shows how it performs in your bag. Here are five tests that tell you which club to question before you book a fitting.

Ten extra yards off the tee is worth about one stroke a round on paper. Round-to-round noise is often bigger than that. Here is what new clubs can realistically change and how to tell a real gain from a good month.

Shot Scope sells hardware with no subscription. Its alternatives are either other wearables or phone-only apps. Seven options compared on price, hardware, strokes gained and platforms, with prices checked on each vendor site.

Eight apps that calculate real strokes gained, compared on price, hardware, categories, platforms and the one thing that changes your numbers most: which benchmark you are measured against.

Five phone-based Arccos alternatives, compared on what they cost, what hardware they need, and how much strokes gained they give you. Prices checked on each vendor site, and the trade-off of tracking without sensors spelled out.

Ten rounds tell you where you stand. A few hundred tell you how your game actually behaves. Here are the golf data lessons that only long-term tracking can teach.