Is logging shots hard for a beginner?

Two taps: the target before you swing and where the ball finished after it, with the club and lie confirmed in one sheet. The map pans under a fixed mark, nothing commits until you confirm, any tap can be undone, and it works with no signal. A round is logged in the time a scorecard takes.

About this topic

One number, two taps, and the mistakes that decide a beginner’s score named after the round. The whole topic, PinFlag for beginners and high handicappers, answers 8 questions in full.

The figures behind the answer

Broadie’s published split applied to the 16 strokes a 15 handicap sits over the tour average of 71, labeled Modeled.

Where a 15 handicap loses strokes

Computed from the published baselines, the same ones the app prices your shots with. Strokes gained by handicap.

More on this topic

• Is PinFlag good for beginners?
• Where does a high handicapper lose strokes?
• Do I need to understand strokes gained to use PinFlag?
• How do I break 100 with PinFlag?
• Will all my strokes gained numbers be negative?
• What should a high handicapper work on first?
• Can a beginner use the PinFlag calculators for free?

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.