What is the start-position table in PinFlag?
A cross-tab of approach distance band by lie: for every combination of where an approach started and what it started from, the greens hit and the strokes gained per cell. It shows whether the strokes are going from the fairway at 175 yards or from the rough at 125, which a single greens in regulation number averages away.
About this topic
The flag against the middle, the plays like distance, and proximity measured by band and by club. The whole topic, Approach play in PinFlag, answers 8 questions in full.
The figures behind the answer
From 150 yards to a green 30 yards across with the flag 10 yards from the middle, on a typical dispersion; and a 420 yard tee shot by where it finishes.
A target, priced
| Decision | Expected strokes | Greens hit |
|---|---|---|
| Aim at the middle, 150 yards | 2.097 | 83% |
| Aim at the flag, 150 yards | 2.117 | 64% |
| Drive to the fairway at 155, from 420 | +0.06 | strokes gained |
| Drive to the rough at 155, from 420 | -0.19 | strokes gained |
Computed from the published baselines, the same ones the app prices your shots with. Aim at the pin or the middle?.
- How does PinFlag price an approach shot?
- Does PinFlag show whether to aim at the pin or the middle?
- What is the plays like distance in PinFlag?
- Which approach distances does PinFlag break down?
- Does PinFlag count a par 3 tee shot as an approach?
- How does the lie change an approach number in PinFlag?
- What is a good proximity from 150 yards?
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.