Reference
What your rounds can tell you
Once you've saved a few cards, the app starts pointing at where your strokes are going. Here are all 29 things it looks for.
What an insight looks like
The thing to work on, the number from your own rounds behind it, and what fixing it is worth. You get four at a time, biggest first, and they're spread across your game so you never get the same problem described four ways.
The biggest one shows the moment you save a round. The full ranked list sits on your stats page, and that one is part of Plus.
Everything it looks for
16 of these need nothing but your scores, and fairways, greens and putts are three extra columns that open up most of the rest.
The 13 marked Shot log want a distance and a lie for each shot. That's more work, and what it buys you is the difference between knowing your irons are off and knowing they're off from 150 yards out of the rough. You can type it in, or write it on the card and let the scan read it. The card guide shows how.
Off the tee4
You're missing enough fairways that the rest of the hole is playing harder than it needs to.
You hold the green from the fairway and lose it from the rough. The tee shot is deciding the hole.
Most of your bad tee shots go the same way. That's an aim change, not a swing rebuild.
What a missed fairway is actually costing you, in feet left to the hole.
Approach2
You're not reaching enough greens in regulation, which is the surest road to pars.
Strokes gained on approach, split into four yardage bands. Inside 100, 100 to 150, 150 to 200, and 200 yd and out. It names the band costing you most, which is a number to go and hit at the range. Measured in strokes lost rather than in how close you finish, because a distance you rarely hit the green from has no proximity to average, and judging it on the few that stayed on would let your worst yardage look like your best.
Around the green4
You're not getting up and down often enough after missing a green.
You're taking two full putts after a chip, so it isn't finishing close enough to save par.
Chips are fine and pitches aren't, or the other way round. They're different shots. Split three ways by how far out you played it, inside 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30 yd, and counted as how often you get up and down rather than as strokes gained.
Greenside bunkers are costing you more than the odd shot.
Putting5
Too many greens are turning into three putts.
Reach a green in regulation and the putter is the only club left. This is putting with nothing else mixed in.
Your long putts finish too far from the hole, which is where the three putts come from.
You're missing more from inside five feet than you should be. Every one of those is a whole stroke.
The putts you'd expect to hole from a given range aren't dropping often enough. This one counts how many go in rather than strokes gained, over six ranges from inside 3 ft out to 25 ft and beyond.
Scoring6
One par type is scoring worse than the others, and this says which part of it is to blame, whether the greens, the putts, or the holes that ran away. Never the tee shot, because a par 3 has no fairway and so the only holes left to compare a par 4 against are the par 5s, where most players are hitting a different club anyway.
The six toughest holes on the card are costing you far more than the rest.
Triple bogeys and worse. One or two a round undoes a lot of good golf.
Doubles are the common blow up, and there are enough of them to matter.
You're reaching greens and walking off with par. The chances are there.
Water, out of bounds and drops. A stroke without a swing, and the easiest one to win back.
How your round unfolds4
Your first three holes cost more than the rest. Usually a warm up problem.
You're giving shots back late in the round.
The last three holes cost more than the rest. Usually not a technique problem.
A bogey tends to be followed by another one. Steadying the next hole is worth real strokes.
Strokes gained4
Which of the four parts of your game is furthest behind the rest of it.
Strokes gained on the greens, split by putt distance. Five feet and in, five to fifteen, and fifteen feet and out. This is what the short band is costing you.
The same putt distance split, read from the far end. Fifteen feet and out is where speed control lives.
What greenside sand is costing you a round.
Why you might not see one yet
Nothing appears under three rounds, and each insight waits until there's enough behind it. A fairway rate off six holes isn't a rate, so it stays quiet rather than guessing.
After that, an insight only appears if it's genuinely costing you strokes. Not seeing “find more fairways” is good news. It means your driving isn't what's standing between you and a better score.
Between three rounds and five we read you a little more sensitively, so a new player gets a first look instead of an empty page, and we label it an early read. Those findings are built from your real numbers, but the order they come in can still move as you log more.
One thing worth knowing. If your cards carry only scores, most of this has nothing to work with. Fairways, greens and putts are what turn a score into a reason.
Every number comes off your own cards. Nothing here is an estimate of how you might be playing.