Course intelligence
The shots you lose before you swing.
Most rounds are decided by choices, not ball-striking. GolfCourseIQ puts you on a real shot, asks what you'd play, then prices the decision you made — in shots.
- 3
- Questions a shot
- 1
- Numbers on your home screen
- 0
- Cost to play
The difference
Every other guide tells you what to play. This one asks first.
A strategy guide hands you the answer and you have forgotten it by the next tee. Here you commit to a decision before you are shown anything. Being wrong once, and seeing the price, is what makes it stick.
To your target
174yards
Pin 168
Move over the hole to measure. Drag the crosshair to place your target.
The decision
Hole 4 · Par 3 · 168 yards
Slightly uphill, playing a club longer than the card. The pin is cut front right, five paces on. Water short and right, and a deep bunker left.
Club
Try the choices. In the app, this is where you commit.
What happened
Short-sided yourself. The water was right, and right is the miss you said you could live with.
Next time
Take the fat side of the green, even if it leaves a longer putt. The middle is never the wrong answer at this pin.
This shot cost you
+0.0shots
Modeled for a 15-handicap. Every figure in the app carries a “how we calculate this” note within reach.
How it works
Three questions, then the bill.
- 01
Pick the shot
Scenarios filtered to your level. A real distance, real trouble and a real pin — the shot you face on a Saturday morning.
- 02
Make the call
Club, target, and where you can live with a miss. Three questions, then you commit, the way you would standing on the tee.
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See the price
What happened in plain words, what to do next time, and what the decision cost you. No score, no bars, no grade.
The heat map
Six holes decide your score. Not eighteen.
On most courses, twelve holes are hit it down the middle. The other six are where rounds are won and lost. Arriving somewhere new stops being eighteen unknowns and becomes six holes to think about.
Tap a hole to see why it is or isn't a decision.
Pine Hollow is a composite, shown to demonstrate the strip. Course coverage is in build — see below if you run one.
What you see
One number, not eleven.
Most golf apps hand you a dashboard and leave the reading to you. If a number does not change a decision, it is not on the screen.
Your decisions are costing you
2.4
shots a round
Better than your last 10 decisions
That is the home screen. Yours is worked out from the decisions you actually make, and every figure carries a “how we calculate this” within reach of it.
On your home screen
- What your decisions cost you, in shots a round
- One line saying whether that is improving
- Your biggest opportunity, named and priced
- Your last three decisions, as verdicts
Taken out, and not coming back
- A composite score built from what you told us
- Five sub-scores and a wall of bars
- A ten-input review after every golf shot
- A drill library and a wall of video links
Improve
One page you can act on.
Your decisions turn into a short brief for the range, the course and your next lesson. It rewrites itself as you play.
Your biggest opportunity
The one pattern costing you most, named in plain language and priced in shots a round.
What to practise
Three things, framed for your next range session. Not a video library.
On the course
Two things small enough to actually do during your next round.
A sentence for your instructor
One line you can copy and paste, so the lesson starts in the right place.
Questions to ask your coach
Three of them, drawn from the decisions you have already made.
Your goal
A target reduction and the shots it saves, moving as you play.
The instructor line copies to your clipboard. No account of theirs required.
Who it's for
Golfers who score worse than they play.
“I knew I shouldn't have gone for that.”
You felt it before you swung and did it anyway. That is a pattern, and patterns are fixable.
“I always miss in the wrong spot.”
Aiming where a miss is survivable is a skill. It is also the cheapest shot you will ever save.
“I just need to think better out there.”
That is the whole product. Nothing here will touch your swing.
For golf courses
Nothing for you to fill in.
We are building course coverage one region at a time. The rule we build to is that the course does nothing: no forms, no scorecard to send, no pin sheet every morning. We do the work, you approve it, your golfers get a strategy tool with your name on it.
It is free to the course and free to the golfer. What you get back is a better first-round experience for visitors, and a monthly page telling you how much it was used.
Course coverage is in build. Get in touch and we will start with yours.
What we need from you
Nothing to launch. A correction if we get a hole wrong.
What it costs you
Nothing. Golfers are never charged for your course either.
Where it lives
Your own site, a tee-time email, or a QR code on the cart.
What comes back
A one-page usage summary for your course, month by month.
The maths
Modeled, not measured — and we say so on every number.
A knowledgeable golfer will challenge a figure, and they should. So the product never states one it cannot show its working for.
- Baselines
- Published strokes-gained tables give the expected strokes to hole out from any distance and lie.
- Dispersion
- Amateur shot patterns by handicap band decide how often a line actually finds the trouble.
- Ranges, not decimals
- Figures are rounded and framed for your handicap. You will never be told you lost 0.34 shots.
Nothing here reads your swing, tracks your ball, or claims to replace a caddie. It covers the part of the job that happens before the swing.
Start here
Play one hole and find out what it costs you.
Three questions, one verdict, one figure. Then the next shot.