Pre-round golf strategy · est. 2025

1,000 simulated shots.
Every hole.

Scored against your handicap and your bag. The club, the target, and the cost of every miss. Monte Carlo dispersion off every tee. Thousands of shots, scattered the way yours actually do. Your plan's done before you stand over the ball.

// strokes-gained model, calibrated to PGA Tour ShotLink data and adjusted for your handicap. See the math.

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/ The argument

380-yard par 4, water left. Your gut says driver. Your caddie ran the numbers: driver finds the fairway 52% of the time. 5-wood: 83%. When you miss with driver, 12% ends up in the water. With 5-wood, 2%.

The 5-wood scores 0.3 strokes better. That's not playing it safe. That's playing it smart.

// strokes gained model, calibrated to PGA Tour data, adjusted for your handicap
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/ Method

Three things make the plan.

Your shot dispersion. Where 9 out of 10 of your shots land on a real hole.
Player

Tell your caddie your game.

Handicap index and how far you hit each club. That's all it needs. Your shot dispersion pattern is modeled from USGA handicap research data for your skill level.

A hole rendered in plan view. Aim line, water, fairway, green.
Course

Pick the course.

199 courses fully mapped with hole-by-hole strategy. Every fairway, bunker, water hazard, tree, and green traced from satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap. New courses go live every week.

Strokes-gained heatmap. Green is good. Red is expensive.
Plan

Study the game plan.

For every hole: which club scores best, where to aim, what the miss costs, and why. Use it on your phone, or print the PDF and walk to the first tee with a plan.

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/ Engine

How your caddie thinks.

Every recommendation backed by strokes gained simulation. The framework that changed how the PGA Tour evaluates performance. Every shot scored against the average outcome from the same spot. Clubs picked in strokes saved, not gut feel.

Simulation

Which club actually scores best?

We simulate hundreds of shots with each viable club, factoring in your dispersion, the hazards, and where misses end up. The club with the lowest expected score wins.

Analytics

See the whole hole in strokes gained.

Every position on the hole is color-coded by expected strokes to hole out. Green saves strokes. Red costs them. The optimal target isn't always the fairway center.

Dispersion

Where your shots actually land.

Your handicap and club distances define your dispersion pattern. Your driver isn't a laser. The model knows that. The shot cloud overlay shows where your shots end up.

Strategy

Plain English: what, where, why.

Your caddie explains the play the way a real one would: aim at the left bunker edge, miss long not short. Not generic advice. Advice for your game.

Physics

Plays 165, not 158.

Real elevation data adjusts your carry distances. A 7-foot uphill shot plays almost a full club longer. The model accounts for this on every hole.

Output

Download the plan. Pocket your phone.

Every hole's strategy, distances, and club recommendations in a printable PDF yardage book. Study at home. Walk to the tee knowing the play on every hole.

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Vancouver, BC

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/ Your course

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/ Pricing

Straightforward pricing.

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