
Lay-Up Distances That Save Strokes
Golf advice tells you two opposite things about laying up: get as close as you can, and leave yourself a full wedge. Both are right, and the tracked data tells you which one applies to you.

Golf advice tells you two opposite things about laying up: get as close as you can, and leave yourself a full wedge. Both are right, and the tracked data tells you which one applies to you.

Two golfers hit the same number of greens and take the same number of putts, yet one shoots seven strokes better. The gap usually lives in a stat almost nobody tracks: how far away the first putt was.

Expected strokes describes where your ball is. Strokes gained describes what you did with it. Confusing the two leads to bad conclusions about your own game, and bad decisions on the course.

The second you save, golfity builds a deck of cards for that round. Swipe once and you already know what the day was about.

You already know the score. The coach's note tells you why it happened, names the holes and clubs that mattered, and points at what to work on before the next tee time.

You do not have to read a single chart to find out what went wrong. Save a round and golfity hands you two short lists: what you did well, and what cost you strokes.