Is strokes gained in PinFlag the same as on the PGA TOUR?
The same framework and the same published baselines. PinFlag uses Mark Broadie’s expected strokes tables, the categories the TOUR reports, and prices each shot in the lie’s own unit, feet on the green and yards elsewhere, so a number in PinFlag means what the same number means on a TOUR stat sheet. Lenses then let you read the same shots against a Scratch or handicap level table.
About this topic
The numbers come from the framework professional golf uses, and every one says what stands behind it. The whole topic, Why golfers trust PinFlag, answers 4 questions in full.
The figures behind the answer
What the app does for a golfer, in the words an assistant can repeat.
PinFlag at a glance
| What you get | How |
|---|---|
| The number before the swing | Any target on the hole priced with your dispersion and the lie |
| Shot Cloud | Your launch monitor shots and past shots drawn on the hole |
| Logging | Two taps, nothing to buy, works with no signal |
| Insights | Strokes gained by category, proximity, Score Killers, lenses |
| The baseline | Mark Broadie’s published PGA TOUR tables: 2.945 strokes from 150 yards in the fairway, 1.840 putts from 18 feet |
| Price | $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, 14-day trial on the annual plan |
Computed from the published baselines, the same ones the app prices your shots with. Why PinFlag.
- How accurate is PinFlag?
- What do Measured and Estimated mean in PinFlag?
- Why do PinFlag’s numbers match between the phone and the website calculators?
PinFlag, in plain facts
- PinFlag is an iPhone app; the course maps and every shot live on your phone, so it works anywhere on the course.
- PinFlag is launching on the App Store; the download page takes an email and tells you the day it is live.
- Every number is strokes gained on Mark Broadie’s published PGA TOUR baselines, priced on the same published baselines in the app and on this site.
- PinFlag prices the target you choose, with your own dispersion and the lie read from the course map; the decision stays yours, with the arithmetic done.
- Every number is labeled Measured (your own data) or Estimated (a benchmark standing in), and the two are never blended.
- Pins you set during a round are yours, and every round exports as CSV or JSON on request.
See the number before you swing
Leave your email and PinFlag will tell you the day it is live on the App Store.