CT1 club tags

You fitted Garmin CT1 tags.
Now change your game.

One tap tells the watch which club is in your hands, and that tap already holds the answer. AVA reads the same rounds and stops reporting that you miss greens — it tells you to take one more club, and what that is worth.

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One CT1-tagged round in. Off the tee you lost 4 strokes. Approach cost the most, at −4.9.

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21 Jul 2026·Blue tees ·9 holes · Garmin

Score42

To Par+5

SG Total-10.6

Hole 1 Par 5 Bogey

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Strokes Gained SG -2.38

Off Tee 1 -2.26

Approach 2 +0.77

Around 0 –

Putting 1 -0.89

Shot History 4 shots · 1 putt

Pick a hole, or any shot, to see what it cost.

Strokes gained by category

Off the tee -3.99

Approach -4.93

Around the green -0.84

Putting -0.88

◂ COST STROKESSCRATCH (0)GAINED ▸

Every shot, by category

Approach -4.93 SG

19 38 56 75 PIN ◂ LEFT RIGHT ▸ 75 yds

12 approach shots · rings are yards from the pin · left and right are measured, long and short are not recorded

Around the green -0.84 SG

5 10 15 20 PIN ◂ LEFT RIGHT ▸ 20 yds

5 short-game shots · rings are yards from the pin · left and right are measured, long and short are not recorded

Putting -0.88 SG

8 15 23 30 HOLE ◂ LEFT RIGHT ▸ 30 ft

14 putts · rings are feet from the hole · hollow means missed · direction is not recorded, so putts are fanned evenly

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.

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.

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.

CONNECT Rounds + sessions together Course rounds and range work in one timeline, scored the same way, so practice and playing finally line up.

TRENDS Performance over time Every measure tracked round to round. You see what is actually improving instead of guessing from feel.

IMPROVE A progression, not a drill list The plan updates as you get better, moving to the next thing costing you strokes rather than repeating last month.

SWING Swing analyzer Frame-by-frame video against your own best swings, tied to the numbers from the same round.

SHARE Send it to your coach A read-only link they open without an account. Your lesson starts with the data instead of twenty minutes of catch-up.

COACHING Top 100 instruction Lessons from nationally ranked teachers, matched to the leak your data found. No lesson fees.

AND IT KEEPS GOING Every round sharpens the next plan

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GARMIN CT1 + AVA GOLF

Turn your Garmin CT1 rounds into lower scores

The finding you cannot reach without a club attached

Look at the approach chart on this page. Eight of twelve tracked approaches finished off the green, 10 to 50 yards offline, and seven of them started from rough or sand. That is not one strike fault and it is not bad luck.

It is a yardage habit. You play to the carry your best strike produces rather than the one you repeat, and the ball settles on the front edge or in the bunker guarding it. Two or three times a round, every round.

Nothing can show you that unless it knows which club was in your hands. A watch alone reports that the approach missed. Tags report that the 7-iron missed short by eight feet, and that points straight at taking the 6.

Make the tap part of your pre-shot routine

CT1 works on a tap. You pull the club, touch the tag to your watch, and hit the shot; the watch records where the ball went and files it under the club you scanned. Garmin builds in a safety net, so if you forget, the watch asks you to tap or pick the club from a list before it stores the shot.

That makes your data quality a habit rather than a purchase, and it is worth taking seriously. Club data is only worth what its completeness is worth: a bag where the driver and the wedges get scanned but the mid-irons get skipped looks like a pattern when it is really a sampling bias, and it will send you to the range to fix a problem you do not have.

So treat the tap like a glove or an alignment stick. Pull the club, tap, hit. Do that for a season and the club-level findings become trustworthy enough to reorganise your practice around, which is more than a more expensive watch would have bought you.

Stop practising your driver

The most common self-diagnosis in amateur golf is a driving problem. Club-level data usually disagrees, and it disagrees in a useful direction.

Off the tee, the damage concentrates in a handful of holes where the trouble is genuinely reachable, and the fix is a club choice rather than a swing change. The round on this page makes the point: one 3-wood off the 1st found rough and picked up two penalty strokes, minus 2.26 on a single shot.

AVA prices that decision hole by hole, which turns an argument about your swing into a plan for your tee shots. It is the fastest scoring change available to most golfers and it needs no practice at all.

CT1 questions, answered

How many clubs should I tag?

As many as you actually hit. Completeness is what makes club data trustworthy, because partial coverage looks like a pattern when it is really a sampling bias.

What can AVA tell me with tags that it cannot without them?

Which club produced each miss. That turns 'your approach play costs you five shots' into 'your 7-iron out of the rough finishes 20 yards left', which is the difference between a description and an instruction.

Do tags change how I connect to AVA?

No. You connect Garmin once, the same as without them. AVA reads the round from your Garmin account, so tagged clubs simply arrive as part of the round.

Is it worth it if I already own a launch monitor?

Especially then. Practice data gives you your ceiling per club; tags give you what that club does on real turf under real pressure. The gap between the two is one of the most useful numbers in your profile.

What happens if I forget to tap before a shot?

The watch notices and asks. Garmin's manual is explicit: forget the tap and you are prompted to tap the tag or pick the club from a list, and the shot is then stored against that club. So a lapse costs you a moment rather than the shot, but the habit is still what keeps a season of data clean.

How do CT1 tags differ from CT10 sensors?

How the club gets attached to the shot. CT1 is a tap: you scan the tag on your watch before you swing. CT10 sensors detect the shot themselves and report the club without you doing anything. CT1 asks for a small habit, CT10 asks for nothing. Once the club reaches the round in your Garmin account, AVA's analysis is identical either way.

Does CT1 record putts?

Only if you tap the putter. Garmin notes the watch may not pick up putts on its own, which is exactly why it recommends making the tap part of your routine. Putting strokes gained needs first-putt distance, so an untapped putter is the most commonly missing piece of a profile.

Put a club on every shot, then change the ones costing you