The golf app for seniors
The age model gives a golfer of 60 a driver carry of about 189 yards and a golfer of 70 180 yards, and the published fairway table prices the lost yards at 0.15 of a stroke per approach at 70. PinFlag replaces the model with your own carries and prices every target on the course with them, so the tee you play and the line you take are decided on your real numbers, in two taps with nothing to charge or wear.
On the course
Distance ages, and the decision that pays is playing targets the real carry reaches. PinFlag prices every target with your own dispersion drawn on the hole by Shot Cloud, and the plays like distance tells you what the club has to cover to the spot you chose, so the lay up short of the bunker and the carry over it are two numbers rather than a guess.
The whole flow is one thumb and two taps, with the map panning under a fixed mark and nothing committed until you confirm; it works with no signal and any tap can be undone.
After the round
Insights shows where the strokes go by category, distance band and club, and a handicap level lens reads the round on your own scale. Preview mode prices a course before you play it, which is the tee choice made with numbers.
Distance by age, priced
The age model eases club head speed by decade and runs it through the published tour carry table; the last column prices the lost carry on the fairway table as an approach played from that much further back.
Driver carry by age
| Age | Club head speed | Carry | Total | Behind the peak | Cost per approach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 90 mph | 213 yards | 230 yards | 0 yards | 0.00 |
| 30 | 92 mph | 217 yards | 234 yards | -4 yards | -0.01 |
| 40 | 88 mph | 208 yards | 224 yards | 5 yards | 0.02 |
| 50 | 85 mph | 198 yards | 214 yards | 15 yards | 0.06 |
| 60 | 81 mph | 189 yards | 204 yards | 24 yards | 0.10 |
| 70 | 78 mph | 180 yards | 195 yards | 33 yards | 0.15 |
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 senior 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 15 handicap sits 16 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.