Reading a student's game
The triage list, the read on each student, lesson notes that carry evidence, and shift alerts.
Your dashboard is built around one question: who needs you this week?
The triage list
Rather than a flat list of students, your home screen ranks them by whether they need attention now, each with a one-line reason and a suggested action:
- David — 3 new rounds, putting slipping → send a note
- Sarah — no rounds in 3 weeks → nudge her
- Tom — best round yet → say well done
That last kind matters as much as the first. A student who has just played their best round is the easiest person in the world to delight, and almost nobody does it.
The “no rounds in three weeks” row is your churn radar. It is usually the last moment at which a drifting student can be pulled back.
A student’s page
Opening a student gives you everything they see, plus what only you see:
- Their full stats, benchmarked against their handicap
- Their trends over time
- Their miss tendencies — which way they miss, and where the shots go
- Their own notes on rounds
- Your lesson notes
- The read on their game
The read
For each student you get a diagnosis grounded in their numbers: what’s actually happening, what to prioritise, what to do in the next session, and a drill from your video library that fits.
Treat it as a well-prepared assistant, not an oracle. It has read every round they’ve logged and spotted the trade-off across them; it has never seen them swing a club. The judgement stays yours — but you walk into the lesson already knowing where to look.
Lesson notes
After a lesson, write a note and tag it to what it was about — driving, approach, short game, or putting.
Tagging is what makes the note useful later. StatCaddy shows the relevant stat before and after the note’s date, so three weeks on you can see whether what you worked on actually moved.
This is your renewal conversation, written in advance and in their numbers rather than your memory.
Alerts
When something meaningful shifts in a student’s game, you get an alert — in the app, and by email so you don’t have to go looking. A run of poor putting, a sudden jump in penalties, a breakthrough round.
The point is timing. Noticing a student’s putting fell apart three weeks ago is far less valuable than noticing it the day after it happened.