The golf app for launch monitors
A launch monitor measures carries indoors while the decisions happen on the course, and PinFlag is the app that carries them across: Trackman, Garmin and Rapsodo sessions import directly, any other monitor by CSV, up to 5,000 shots a session, and each club becomes a pattern of your own carries labeled Measured. From then on every target you consider on the course is priced with your real spread, drawn on the hole by Shot Cloud.
On the course
The plays like distance tells you what the club has to cover to the spot you chose; Shot Cloud draws the session’s shots with that club around the target on the real hole, so the share of your pattern that reaches the water or the bunker is your own data. Switch between launch monitor shots, past rounds or all sessions, trim the longest and shortest, and read the confidence grade that says how much data stands behind the pattern.
After the round
Every number built on your carries carries the Measured label, and exactly one source stands behind any figure, never a blend. Gapping problems show up at once: a twenty-yard hole between two clubs is invisible on a range and obvious on the hole.
The tour anchors, for comparison
The published tour row for every club, which the model on this site scales by speed; your session replaces the whole table with your own numbers.
Club head speed, ball speed, smash and carry on tour
| Club | Club head speed | Ball speed | Smash factor | Carry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | 113 mph | 167 mph | 1.48 | 275 yards |
| 3 wood | 107 mph | 158 mph | 1.48 | 243 yards |
| 5 wood | 103 mph | 152 mph | 1.48 | 230 yards |
| Hybrid | 100 mph | 146 mph | 1.46 | 225 yards |
| 3 iron | 98 mph | 142 mph | 1.45 | 212 yards |
| 4 iron | 96 mph | 137 mph | 1.43 | 203 yards |
| 5 iron | 94 mph | 132 mph | 1.40 | 194 yards |
| 6 iron | 92 mph | 127 mph | 1.38 | 183 yards |
| 7 iron | 90 mph | 120 mph | 1.33 | 172 yards |
| 8 iron | 87 mph | 115 mph | 1.32 | 160 yards |
| 9 iron | 85 mph | 109 mph | 1.28 | 148 yards |
| Pitching wedge | 83 mph | 102 mph | 1.23 | 136 yards |
| Gap wedge (modeled) | 81 mph | 95 mph | 1.17 | 124 yards |
What it costs
Golfer is $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year with every feature included: the number before the swing, Shot Cloud, launch monitor import, two-tap logging, Insights and the benchmark lenses, with a 14-day trial on the annual plan through the App Store. Coach is $80 a month for the coach plus up to ten students and Facility $299 a month for a whole program. The strokes gained, handicap and club distance calculators on pinflag.io are free and need no account.
In PinFlag
Every number PinFlag shows launch monitor owners is strokes gained on Mark Broadie’s published PGA TOUR baselines, priced on the same published baselines in the app and on this site and labeled Measured or Estimated so you always know what stands behind it. On the benchmark model a 12 handicap sits 13 strokes a round from the tour average; PinFlag shows which shots.
Frequently asked questions
Which golf app works with a launch monitor?
Does it import SkyTrak or Foresight?
What happens to outliers?
Is there a free way to read a session?
Related
Sources
- Mark Broadie, Columbia Business School (Wikidata entity)
- PGA TOUR statistics
- How PinFlag calculates strokes gained
Every figure on this page is computed from the published baselines, the same ones PinFlag prices your shots with. The scope of the figures: The handicap figures are the site’s benchmark model, Broadie’s published shares applied to the strokes over the tour average; every product claim describes the shipped iPhone app.
Get PinFlag for iPhone
PinFlag shows you this number on the course, for the shot in front of you, before you swing: any target priced with your own dispersion and the lie read from the course map, your real shots drawn on the hole, and two taps to log. Golfer is $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, with a 14-day trial on the annual plan through the App Store.