Golf Analytics

Two golfers with the same handicap can need opposite strategies. Your strokes gained breakdown tells you which parts of your game to lean on and which ones to route around.

Your scorecard total tells you how the round went. Splitting it into par 3s, par 4s and par 5s tells you why, and the answer surprises most golfers who assume the short holes are the problem.

Golfshot has spent fifteen years perfecting the number you see before the shot. golfity works on the number you get after it. Both live on your phone, both are free to start, and they answer completely different questions about your round.

Your bad shots are not random. They cluster in a direction, a distance, and a club, and once you can see the pattern you can aim around it. A statistical look at miss management.

"Aim for the center" is a decent default, but it is not a strategy. Here is how to turn your own distance, dispersion and miss-pattern data into a specific target and club on every par 3 you play.

Missing the fairway costs you about a fifth of a stroke from wedge range and more than double that from 200 yards. Here is what the rough vs fairway approach gap actually looks like in strokes gained, and why chasing driving accuracy usually costs more than it saves.