The golf app for simulator golfers
A simulator measures carry for every shot, and carry is the number that transfers to the course: at tour speed a driver carries 275 yards and rolls to 297 yards, while a pitching wedge carries 136 yards and stops near 139 yards. PinFlag imports the session by CSV, keeps the carries as a Measured pattern for each club, and prices every target on the real course with the spread you actually hit.
On the course
The indoor pattern becomes the on-course number: put the aim on a target and PinFlag prices it with your simulator carries and the lie read from the course map, with the plays like distance for the club in hand. Shot Cloud draws the session around the target on the real hole, so the winter’s data decides the summer’s shots.
After the round
Every shot you log on the course records the target and the result, and those shots sit beside the simulator sessions in Shot Cloud with their source labeled, never blended. Across a season Insights shows whether the on-course proximity matches what the simulator promised, by club.
Carry against total, every club
Plan approaches with carry, because the ball has to hold the green; total matters only off the tee on an open fairway. The table runs every club at tour speed with the modeled roll.
Carry, total and roll by club
| Club | Carry | Total | Roll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | 275 yards | 297 yards | 22 yards |
| 3 wood | 243 yards | 258 yards | 15 yards |
| 5 wood | 230 yards | 244 yards | 14 yards |
| Hybrid | 225 yards | 239 yards | 14 yards |
| 3 iron | 212 yards | 220 yards | 8 yards |
| 4 iron | 203 yards | 211 yards | 8 yards |
| 5 iron | 194 yards | 202 yards | 8 yards |
| 6 iron | 183 yards | 190 yards | 7 yards |
| 7 iron | 172 yards | 179 yards | 7 yards |
| 8 iron | 160 yards | 166 yards | 6 yards |
| 9 iron | 148 yards | 154 yards | 6 yards |
| Pitching wedge | 136 yards | 139 yards | 3 yards |
| Gap wedge (modeled) | 124 yards | 126 yards | 2 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 simulator 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 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.