Do I need a launch monitor to use PinFlag?

No launch monitor is required: PinFlag prices every target with a benchmark dispersion pattern labeled Estimated, and logged rounds produce full strokes gained on their own. A launch monitor makes the pattern yours and moves the label to Measured, and on-course shots you log build your pattern too.

About this topic

Range numbers, finally on the course where the decisions happen. The whole topic, Launch monitors, answers 5 questions in full.

The figures behind the answer

The published tour carries and the handicap model’s figure for a 15; an imported session replaces both with your own.

Carry by club, tour and 15 handicap

Computed from the published baselines, the same ones the app prices your shots with. Every club, priced.

More on this topic

• Which launch monitors work with PinFlag?
• What does PinFlag do with a launch monitor session?
• Does PinFlag show club gapping?
• Can PinFlag import Trackman data?

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.