Goals

Set a target, break it into pieces, and see whether you're actually closing on it.

A goal in StatCaddy is a target with evidence attached. You set what you’re aiming at; it tracks how far you’ve come using your actual rounds rather than your impression of how it’s going.

Setting a goal

Go to Improve and add a goal. Most goals are one of two kinds:

• An outcome — “handicap to 7”, “break 80”.
• A stat — “greens in regulation to 50%”, “under one 3-putt a round”.

Stat goals tend to work better, because they’re things you can practise directly. “Break 80” is a result; “hit two more greens a round” is a plan.

Sub-goals

A big goal can be broken into smaller ones. Getting your handicap from 11 to 7 is a season; hitting 45% of greens is something you could see move in a month. Sub-goals give you the intermediate wins that keep the thing alive.

Progress

Each goal shows how far you’ve come and how far is left, calculated from your logged rounds. It updates as you log — there’s nothing to tick off by hand.

This is also why the honesty of your logging matters. A goal tracked against flattered data will tell you you’re improving when you aren’t.

Goals from your coach

If you have a coach, they can set goals for you as well. These appear alongside your own and are marked as coming from them, so it’s clear what you set yourself and what they’ve asked you to work on.

You’ll typically see one arrive after a lesson — it’s how the thing you talked about on the range stays visible for the next three weeks.