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Where the round actually got away.
Enter your 18-hole scorecard. Coach Harvey finds the patterns — where you scored, where you lost strokes — and turns the leak into your next practice plan.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What golf stats should I track after a round?
At minimum, track four stats per hole: fairways hit (or miss direction), greens in regulation (GIR), total putts, and penalties. These four inputs let you calculate putts-per-GIR (PGA Tour average: approximately 1.77), scrambling percentage (PGA Tour average: roughly 58%, average amateur: 20–30%), and scoring differential by hole type. Mark Broadie's strokes-gained methodology, published in "Every Shot Counts" (2014), uses exactly these categories to isolate where golfers gain and lose strokes. Coach Harvey computes all of these from your scorecard automatically.
How do I analyze my golf round?
Enter your 18-hole scorecard into Coach Harvey's debrief tool. The AI segments your round into scoring patterns — par-3 vs par-4 vs par-5 performance, front nine vs back nine trends, and par-or-better rate per hole type. It then identifies your strongest category and your single biggest scoring leak. Mark Broadie's strokes-gained research at Columbia University showed that knowing where you lose the most strokes is the single highest-leverage insight for practice planning. The debrief generates a focused practice plan targeting your weakest area.
What is the best way to improve my golf scores?
Practice the shots that cost you the most strokes — not the shots you enjoy hitting. Mark Broadie's analysis in "Every Shot Counts" (2014) showed that the long game — tee shots and approach shots combined — accounts for roughly two-thirds of the scoring gap between handicap levels, while short game and putting account for the remaining third. Despite this, most amateurs spend the majority of their range time hitting driver rather than working on approach shots and wedge play. A post-round debrief quantifies exactly where your strokes are going, so you can direct your limited practice time at the shots that will actually lower your scores.