Trends and your coach's read
How to read the charts, and what the AI read is — and isn't — telling you.
Single rounds are noisy. The value is in the shape over time.
Trends
The Insights screen charts your scoring, greens in regulation, fairways, and putts per round over your recent history. Your dashboard also carries a small sparkline on each headline stat, so drift is visible without opening anything.
Two things to know when reading them:
- Give it a few rounds. Three rounds is a mood; ten is a trend. Golf is variable enough that almost any two rounds can tell you any story you like.
- Read stats against each other. A falling putt count with falling greens isn’t better putting — it’s more chipping. The pairs that matter most are GIR against putts, and fairways against penalties.
Your coach’s read
Tap once and StatCaddy writes a short readout of your recent form. It is grounded strictly in your own numbers, and it’s specific rather than generic — for example:
Your GIR climbed from 33% to 50%, but 3-putts rose from 1.2 to 2.4 a round. The strokes you’re saving into greens are leaking away on the green.
That’s the kind of thing it’s for: noticing the trade-off you wouldn’t spot yourself, because it requires holding two stats side by side across several rounds.
What it is and isn’t
It is a reading of your data — patterns, trade-offs, what changed.
It isn’t a swing diagnosis. It has never seen you hit a ball. It can tell you your penalties off the tee doubled; it can’t tell you your takeaway got flat. That’s your coach’s job, and it’s precisely why the read is more useful to a coach than to a player working alone.
It doesn’t regenerate constantly. The read is cached and updates when your data meaningfully changes, so it won’t shift under you between two glances.
Handicap history
Enter your handicap index in your profile whenever it changes. StatCaddy keeps the history, so you can see the line move over a season, and it uses your current figure for net scores and for benchmarking your stats.