The golf app for scratch golfers
Scratch is not zero on the strokes gained scale: the benchmark model puts a scratch golfer about 1 stroke a round behind the tour average of 71, and the whole gap is half shots. PinFlag prices every shot on the same TOUR baseline professional golf uses, reprices the round on a Scratch lens so it reads on your scale, and captures every tournament round in full with the live number held back until you finish.
On the course
At scratch the decisions are fine: 8 yards of pin against 30 yards of green from 175, the second shot at a reachable par 5 with a one in ten chance of water, driver or 3 wood beside out of bounds. PinFlag prices each with your own dispersion drawn on the hole by Shot Cloud, and preview mode prices a course before you play it.
Tournament mode logs every shot and distance in full and holds the live number until the round is over.
After the round
The Scratch lens reprices every shot against a scratch level table, the per shot list ranks the shots that won and lost the round, and approach proximity by band and club with the 68 and 95 percent circles shows the half stroke that is moving across a season. Rounds export as CSV or JSON whenever you want them.
Scratch against the tour
The gap from scratch to the tour average is about 1 stroke a round on the benchmark model. From 150 yards in the fairway the tour average needs 2.945 strokes and scratch about 2.991: the same small gap on fourteen long shots, seven short ones and thirty putts.
Where a scratch golfer loses 1 stroke a round
| Category | Shots a round | Per shot | Per round | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off the tee and approach | 14 | 0.046 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Short game | 7 | 0.029 | 0.2 | 20% |
| Putting | 30 | 0.005 | 0.2 | 15% |
Modeled: Broadie’s published split applied to the strokes over the tour average of 71.
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 scratch golfers 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 scratch golfer sits 1 stroke 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.