Track & Improve

What is course management?

Course management means choosing targets by expected strokes instead of hope. For any target you consider, PinFlag shows the strokes gained of that spot before you swing: the expected strokes from where you stand, minus the expected strokes from where your ball would finish, with your own dispersion around the aim and the lie read from the course map. Put the aim on the flag and read the number; move it to the fat side of the green or the layup and read it again. The difference between them is the cost of the aggressive line, in strokes, and Shot Cloud draws your launch monitor and past shots around each target so you can see how much of your spread reaches the trouble. A line over water is priced with the penalty stroke included. After the round, Score Killers and the start-position table in Insights show which decisions cost whole strokes, so the next round starts with a shorter list.

Most apps grade rounds after. PinFlag, in the iOS app, shows your strokes gained for any target before you swing, with your own dispersion and the real lie priced in, and draws your launch monitor shots and past shots on the hole you are playing (Shot Cloud). Two taps log each shot, and every round becomes a per-shot breakdown of where the strokes went.