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Data with direction

Same round. Two readouts.

On the left is what your tracker already gives you. On the right is the same round after AVA reads it.

The data
Garmin logo
Score
42
9 holes · par 37
Fairways
2 / 7
Par 4s and 5s only
Greens
3 / 9
Putts
14
1.6 per hole
Penalties
1
The read
AVA Golf

Costliest category

−4.1 Approach play
Approach −4.06
Off the tee −2.62
Around the green −1.64
Putting +0.13

Work on this next

Ten of sixteen approaches finished off the green, averaging around fifty yards from the pin, and ten of the sixteen were played out of the rough. The 125-175 yard band cost the most: practise that shot from a lie you did not choose.

Hole by hole

Every hole and what it cost

The nine holes of that first round, as AVA reads them. Swipe across. The number under each hole is what it cost you against scratch.

Swipe →

Hole 1 · Par 5 Bogey
6 −1.5
3W 236 yds · Tee → Rough −0.5
5i 180 yds · Rough → Rough −0.2
8i 171 yds · Rough → Rough −0.7
SW 26 yds · Rough → Rough −0.7
LW 14 yds · Rough → Green +0.3
Putter 4 ft · holed +0.2

Eight iron from 131 flew 171 and finished 40 long. The drive was not the cost.

Hole 2 · Par 4 Triple
7 −3.1
7i 154 yds · Tee → Fairway −0.3
4H 201 yds · Fairway → Rough −0.4
SW 34 yds · Rough → Out of bounds · +1 pen −2.0
SW 16 yds · Rough → Green +0.0
Putter 9 ft · missed −0.5
Putter 2 ft · holed +0.0

The costliest hole, and not the hybrid's fault. The chip out of bounds cost two.

Hole 3 · Par 3 Birdie
2 +1.0
8i 147 yds · Tee → Rough −0.8
SW 34 yds · Rough → holed +1.7

Sand wedge from 34 yards, holed. Best shot of the round.

Hole 4 · Par 4 Par
4 −0.2
Dr 256 yds · Tee → Rough −0.1
GW 97 yds · Rough → Green −0.2
Putter 54 ft · missed +0.1
Putter 2 ft · holed +0.0

Two mistakes that cancelled: 31 yards right, then 54 feet.

Hole 5 · Par 3 Par
3 −0.2
PW 111 yds · Tee → Green −0.1
Putter 29 ft · missed −0.0
Putter 2 ft · holed +0.0

The only green hit from the tee. Nothing gained, nothing spent.

Hole 6 · Par 5 Bogey
6 −1.7
Dr 251 yds · Tee → Rough −0.4
7i 153 yds · Rough → Rough −0.3
8i 149 yds · Rough → Rough −0.8
SW 67 yds · Rough → Green −0.3
Putter 57 ft · missed +0.1
Putter 2 ft · holed +0.0

Eight iron from 99 flew 149 and finished 50 past. Not the drive.

Hole 7 · Par 4 Par
4 −0.4
9i 132 yds · Tee → Rough −0.5
4H 198 yds · Rough → Rough −0.7
SW 67 yds · Rough → Green +0.0
Putter 21 ft · holed +0.9

A 21-footer saved it — the best putt of the round.

Hole 8 · Par 5 Birdie
4 −0.0
5W 201 yds · Tee → Fairway −0.4
3W 225 yds · Fairway → Fairway −0.1
PW 36 yds · Fairway → Green −0.2
Putter 12 ft · holed +0.7

Fairway, fairway, wedge, one putt. What the other eight could look like.

Hole 9 · Par 4 Double
6 −2.0
3W 223 yds · Tee → Bunker −0.4
5i 176 yds · Bunker → Rough −0.2
PW 17 yds · Rough → Green +0.0
Putter 9 ft · missed −0.9
Putter 7 ft · missed −0.6
Putter 2 ft · holed +0.0

Three-putt from nine feet. Costly, and still not the first thing to practise.

Inside AVA Golf

Five things your data knows and never says

Real charts from the app, built from the rounds your tracker already recorded.

Swipe →

SG waterfall Where the round actually went -2.6 DRIVE -4.1 APPR -1.6 SHORT 0.1 PUTT −8.2 NET
You walked off blaming the putts. Putting gained 0.1. Approach cost 4.1.
SG by distance The exact yardage costing you 30-50 +0.58 50-75 +0.01 75-125 −1.19 125-175 −2.17 175-225 −0.62 225+ −0.67 TOTAL SG · YARDS
Not "work on approach play". Your 3 approaches from 125-175 cost −2.2 between them. Bands with one or two shots in them are noise, not findings.
Miss tendency Every tee shot on one line AVG MISS 5Y RIGHT 40Y LEFT TARGET 40Y RIGHT ALL 7 TEE SHOTS OF ONE ROUND · NOT YET A PATTERN
A fairways-hit percentage hides this. All 7 tee shots of the round, each plotted by how far offline it finished. One round is a picture, not a pattern — a few more and the average becomes an aim point.
Putt by putt Where you give putts away Hole 1: first putt 4 ft, holed · 1 putt · +0.17 strokes H1 1 Hole 2: first putt 9 ft, left 2 ft · 2 putts · −0.45 strokes H2 2 Hole 4: first putt 54 ft, left 2 ft · 2 putts · +0.14 strokes H4 2 Hole 5: first putt 29 ft, left 2 ft · 2 putts · −0.03 strokes H5 2 Hole 6: first putt 57 ft, left 2 ft · 2 putts · +0.15 strokes H6 2 Hole 7: first putt 21 ft, holed · 1 putt · +0.89 strokes H7 1 Hole 8: first putt 12 ft, holed · 1 putt · +0.69 strokes H8 1 Hole 9: first putt 9 ft, left 7 ft · 3 putts · −1.43 strokes H9 3 CUP15304560 PUTTS FIRST PUTT · FEET FROM THE CUP
14 putts over 9 holes is a good number. Net, it gained 0.1 strokes, and the worst single putt was from 9 feet.
Hole heatmap The holes that always get you H1 H7 H14 H18 BIRDIE PAR BOGEY DOUBLE 3+
Eighteen holes across, eight rounds down. Two columns never go green: on those two holes, all eight rounds finished double bogey or worse. The chart says which holes keep costing you. Why they do — length, tee shot, green complex — is the next question.
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Personalized progression

Then Top 100 coaches show you how to fix it

Finding the leak is half of it. AVA matches what your rounds exposed to lessons from nationally ranked teaching professionals, and rebuilds the playlist as your game moves. No lesson fees, no drill library to search.

This week Off the tee — 2 of 7 fairways, and the approach bill behind it −2.6

4 lessons · 31 min

Cheryl Anderson
Lesson 01
Cheryl Anderson
Golf Digest 50 Best Teachers in America
7 min
Finding the short grass off the tee

Matched because you hit 2 of 7 fairways. Everything the approach numbers below cost you started here, on a lie you did not choose.

Tom Stickney
Lesson 02
Tom Stickney
Golf Magazine Top 100 alum
9 min
The long approach from a bad lie

Matched because ten of your sixteen approaches were played from rough, and the 125-175 yard band cost −2.2 on its own.

Travis Fulton
Lesson 03
Travis Fulton
Golf Digest Best Teachers in Florida
8 min
Playing the number, not the yardage

Three approaches this round flew roughly forty-five yards past the distance you were playing to. Your watch measures total distance, ball to ball — this is the session that reconciles it with the card.

Jason Birnbaum
Lesson 04
Jason Birnbaum
Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher
7 min
A range session with a scorecard

The drill that closes the loop: a structured block you can log, so next week AVA can tell you whether it worked.

Matched, not browsed

The playlist follows the data

Lessons are selected against the leak your own data exposed. You do not search a library and guess which video applies to you.

It moves

Next week is a different plan

When the most expensive thing in your game stops being the most expensive thing, the playlist changes to whatever is.

Included

No lesson fees

Instruction from nationally ranked teachers is part of the membership, not an upsell inside it.

Connect once

Authorise Garmin. Then never touch it again.

Garmin is a native sync, not an export job. Every round you play arrives on its own, scored the same way, next to your practice sessions. AVA reads your rounds and never writes back.

Connect Garmin

AVA reads your rounds and never writes back. Nothing is posted to Garmin, nothing is shared with a coach or a club unless you send it, and you can disconnect or delete everything whenever you want.

01

Connect Garmin

Authorise the connection once. No exports, no files, no setup call.

02

AVA reads every shot

Strokes gained by category against a scratch baseline, hole by hole.

03

One plan for this week

The two or three things worth your next bucket of balls, ranked by what they cost you.

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, shot positions and distances arrive with no effort on your part, round after round. Putts and fairways are the two it needs help with: AutoShot detects full swings and deliberately ignores putts, so a putt count comes from a tap on the watch or from CT10 sensors, and fairway-hit is a manual entry on most models.

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 the club on most shots, the findings get specific enough to act on immediately.

In the round above, nine of sixteen approaches finished off the green, and the ones that missed finished around fifty-five yards from the pin rather than just short of it. Ten of the sixteen were played from rough and another from 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.

Late-round distance is a measurement, not a feeling

Most golfers describe a late-round drop as concentration. Sometimes it is. With CT10s on the clubs it is also something you can simply read off: the same club, the same lie, and the distance it travels over the course of a round.

A watch cannot tell you why. It records where the ball started and where it stopped, not strike quality, club speed or smash factor — those are launch-monitor numbers. What it can tell you is whether your 7 iron is going the same distance on the closing holes as it did on the opening ones, and how much that costs when you keep playing the opening number.

AVA reads round data and session data together, which is the only way to separate a club-selection problem from a decision-making one. They need 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?

Watches: Approach S44, S50, S62 and S70. Launch monitors: Approach R10 and R50. Rangefinder: Approach Z30, with a paired watch. Club sensors: Approach CT10 and CT1. Also supported: Approach G12, G20 and G82. Pairing CT10 sensors or CT1 tags with your watch puts the club on your shots, which turns a vague miss into a specific yardage fix. AVA reads what each device syncs to your Garmin account, so what it can say depends on what the round records. Shot positions are what shot-by-shot strokes gained, miss dispersion and yardage bands are built from, and a round without them still gets strokes gained and trends from the card.

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 you get the club on most shots — sensors miss the occasional chip, re-hit or out-of-range swing, and a practice swing can trip one — which is enough to turn a vague miss into a specific yardage fix. CT1 records the same thing but needs a deliberate tap before every shot, forty-odd times a round; CT10 is automatic.

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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