You track with a Garmin.
Now change your game.
Your Garmin rounds already hold the answer — the watch records every one and nothing ever reads it back to you. Connect it once and AVA prices every shot in strokes, then hands you the two or three costing you the most, and how to win them back.
One Garmin round in. Off the tee you lost 4 strokes. Approach cost the most, at −4.9.
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Fairways 28.6% · Greens 37.5% · Proximity 31.7 ft · Up and down 20% · Penalties 4
Pick a hole, or any shot, to see what it cost.
Strokes gained by category
Every shot, by category
Connect Garmin once and you're done
Garmin is a native sync, not an export job. Authorise it once and every round you play arrives on its own, scored in strokes gained next to your practice sessions.
That's one round. AVA reads your whole game.
Course rounds and range sessions in one place, trends over time, a progression that adapts as you improve, and a coach view when you want one.
GARMIN + AVA GOLF
Turn your Garmin rounds into lower scores
Garmin Golf tells you what happened. It does not price it.
Your watch is an excellent recorder. Scores, distances, fairways, greens, putts: all captured accurately with no effort on your part, round after round.
What it does not do is rank. A round summary tells you that you hit six fairways and thirty putts, and leaves you to decide which of those mattered. That decision, made by feel, is almost always wrong: golfers reliably blame the club that produced the memorable miss rather than the one that quietly cost four shots.
AVA prices everything in strokes against a scratch baseline. Driving, approach, short game, putting and penalties end up on one comparable scale, and the resulting order is what you should practise.
What CT10 sensors add
Without club data, AVA works from your scores, hole context and shot locations, and that is enough to find where rounds break. With a club on every shot, the findings get specific enough to act on immediately.
In the round above, eight of twelve approaches finished off the green, leaving 31.7 feet on average, and the misses were sideways rather than short. Seven of the twelve were played from rough or sand after two fairways from seven, so the approach number is carrying the cost of the tee shots.
You can only find that pattern if something knows which club was in your hands. That is what the sensors buy you, and it is why a Garmin setup with CT10s is one of the strongest amateur data sets there is.
The back nine is not a mental problem
Most golfers describe their back-nine scoring as concentration. Sometimes it is. Often it is a measurable decline in strike quality that starts around the same hole every round, and your watch has been recording the physical side of that the whole time.
The same pattern shows up in practice data: in the sample launch monitor session, smash factor falls off a cliff after sixty balls. Endurance is individual and it is measurable, and it changes what a sensible session or a sensible walking round looks like.
AVA reads round data and session data together, which is the only way to tell a decision-making problem from a fatigue problem. They need completely different fixes, and guessing between them wastes a season.
Garmin questions, answered
Do I need to export anything from Garmin?
No. Garmin is a native sync. Authorise the connection once and rounds arrive on their own: no CSVs, no files, no setup call.
Which Garmin devices work?
Any Approach watch or handheld whose rounds sync to Garmin Golf. AVA reads the round from your Garmin account rather than talking to the device, so the model you own does not change the analysis.
Does AVA change anything in Garmin Golf or Garmin Connect?
No. The connection is read-only. AVA never writes back, so your rounds, scores, club distances and handicap stay exactly as they are.
Do I need CT10 sensors?
No, but they sharpen the findings a lot. Without them AVA works from scores, hole context and shot locations. With them it knows the club on every shot, which turns a vague miss into a specific yardage fix.
Will my old rounds come in too?
History is what turns a snapshot into a trend, so AVA brings in what your Garmin account makes available rather than starting from the day you connect.
Can I disconnect later?
Yes, at any time, from AVA or from Garmin's own authorised-apps screen. You can also export or delete everything AVA derived from your rounds.
Who sees my Garmin data?
You do. Nothing is shared with a coach, a club or anyone else unless you send them a link.
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