What is a benchmark lens?
A different expected strokes table for a chosen scoring level, derived from the published TOUR tables and labeled Modeled in the app. Switch the lens from Tour to Scratch or a handicap level and every logged shot is repriced against it, so a bogey golfer reads gains and losses relative to a bogey golfer instead of a TOUR player. It changes what you are measured against, never what was recorded.
About this topic
Every figure computed from real shots, with the leak named. The whole topic, Stats and Insights, answers 7 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
| Category | Shots a round | Per shot | Per round |
|---|---|---|---|
| Off the tee and approach | 14 | 0.743 | 10.4 |
| Short game | 7 | 0.457 | 3.2 |
| Putting | 30 | 0.080 | 2.4 |
Computed from the published baselines, the same ones the app prices your shots with. Strokes gained by handicap.
- What stats does PinFlag show after a round?
- Are PinFlag’s stats computed from real shots or estimated from a scorecard?
- Can I see which shots cost me the most strokes?
- Does PinFlag show proximity to the hole?
- How does PinFlag handle nine-hole rounds?
- Does PinFlag track my progress over a season?
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.