The golf app for mid handicappers
A 12 handicap sits about 13 strokes a round behind the tour average on the benchmark model, 8.5 of them in the long game, which makes the mid handicapper the golfer with the most strokes to find and the fewest disasters to remove. PinFlag prices every target before you swing with your own dispersion, files every approach by distance band with its proximity in feet, and reprices the round on a lens for your level.
On the course
The mid handicapper’s decisions are approach decisions: the flag or the middle, the carry over the bunker or the fat side. PinFlag prices each before you commit, with your own pattern drawn on the green by Shot Cloud and the lie read from the course map, so the tucked pin reads its cost against the middle on your spread.
Every logged shot records the target and the result, so your on-course dispersion is measured from real rounds and the number gets more personal every time you play.
After the round
Insights breaks approach play down by distance band and by club with best and median proximity, the share inside 15 and 30 feet and the dispersion circles, and the start-position table shows greens hit and strokes gained by distance and lie. The band that costs you shows up as a number instead of being averaged away.
Proximity is the number
From 150 yards in the fairway the tour average needs 2.945 strokes to hole out, so the finish decides the value of every approach: the table prices the same green hit by where the ball stops, and Insights measures it by distance band and by club with the share inside 15 and 30 feet.
An approach from 150 yards, by finish
| Finish | Expected putts | Approach worth | One putt rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 feet | 1.357 | +0.59 | 64% |
| 10 feet | 1.626 | +0.32 | 37% |
| 15 feet | 1.784 | +0.16 | 22% |
| 20 feet | 1.878 | +0.07 | 12% |
| 30 feet | 1.984 | -0.04 | 2% |
| 40 feet | 2.058 | -0.11 | 0% |
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 mid handicappers 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.
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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.