The golf app for tournament golfers
A tournament round is won by the decisions that avoid the whole stroke mistakes, and the published tables price them: a tee shot out of bounds costs 2.05 strokes, a three putt from 20 feet 1.12. PinFlag prices every target before the practice round in preview mode, captures the tournament round in full in tournament mode with the live number held until you finish, and shows afterwards exactly which shots decided the score.
On the course
Preview mode opens the course with full pricing and no round recorded: place a pin where the tournament pin will be, put the aim on the line you are planning and read the strokes gained and Shot Cloud for it with your own dispersion, before you ever stand on the tee. Then start the round in tournament mode, which logs every shot and distance in full and holds the live number until the round is over.
After the round
The round is a per shot ledger you can review hole by hole, reprice under any lens and share as a scorecard. The shots that won and lost the round rank at the top, Score Killers totals the whole stroke mistakes, and the hole trail draws every shot on the map.
The whole stroke mistakes
Each mistake costs a full stroke or more on the published baseline, and a tournament round that contains none of them is a good one at any level.
Mistakes that cost a stroke or more
| Mistake | Cost in strokes |
|---|---|
| A tee shot out of bounds on a 400 yard hole | 2.05 |
| Three putting from 20 feet | 1.12 |
| Three putting from 30 feet | 1.02 |
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 tournament 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 6 handicap sits 7 strokes a round from the tour average; PinFlag shows which shots.
Frequently asked questions
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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.