The golf app for practice sessions
Practice moves a score only when it reaches the course, and PinFlag connects the two: import a range session and each club becomes a Measured pattern of carries and spread, gapping shows up at once, and the same pattern prices every target on the hole in front of you. Across a season Insights shows which category, band and club is moving, so the next session is aimed at the leak: on the benchmark model a 12 handicap loses 8.5 strokes a round in the long game and 2.0 on the greens.
On the course
The range pattern becomes the on-course number: Shot Cloud draws the session’s shots with the club in hand around the target, the confidence grade says how much data stands behind it, and the strokes gained of the target already reflects the spread you are looking at.
After the round
Insights tells the next practice session what to work on: strokes gained by category to find the leak, proximity by distance band and club to find the range, three-putt frequency and the leave heat map for the greens, short-game proximity by lie. The free launch monitor analyzer on pinflag.io reads a session in the browser and flags gaps in strokes.
Gapping, for a 12 handicap
The handicap model’s carries for a 12 handicap, club by club, with the gap to the next club. A gap over 20 yards is the one a session should look at first; the launch monitor analyzer flags it.
Carry and gap by club, 12 handicap
| Club | Carry | Gap to the next club |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | 224 yards | 26 yards |
| 3 wood | 199 yards | 10 yards |
| 5 wood | 188 yards | 4 yards |
| Hybrid | 184 yards | 11 yards |
| 3 iron | 174 yards | 7 yards |
| 4 iron | 166 yards | 7 yards |
| 5 iron | 159 yards | 9 yards |
| 6 iron | 150 yards | 9 yards |
| 7 iron | 141 yards | 10 yards |
| 8 iron | 131 yards | 10 yards |
| 9 iron | 121 yards | 10 yards |
| Pitching wedge | 111 yards | 10 yards |
| Gap wedge (modeled) | 101 yards | Last club |
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 golfers who practise 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
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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.