The Grint keeps your rounds, your stats and a handicap you trust. AVA cannot read them yet — so here is what it would do with them, and what you can have this week instead.
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Data with direction
On the left is what your tracker already gives you. On the right is the same round after AVA reads it.
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Nine of sixteen approaches finished off the green, averaging around fifty-five yards from the pin, and ten of the sixteen were played out of the rough. The 225+ yard band cost the most: practise that shot from a lie you did not choose.
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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.
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The reload from 301 went out of bounds. Two strokes on one swing.
The costliest hole, and not the hybrid's fault. The chip out of bounds cost two.
Sand wedge from 34 yards, holed. Best shot of the round.
Two mistakes that cancelled: 31 yards right, then 54 feet.
The only green hit from the tee. Nothing gained, nothing spent.
Eight iron from 99 flew 149 and finished 50 past. Not the drive.
A 21-footer saved it — the best putt of the round.
Fairway, fairway, wedge, one putt. What the other eight could look like.
Three-putt from nine feet. Costly, and still not the first thing to practise.
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Matched because you hit 2 of 7 fairways. Everything the approach numbers below cost you started here, on a lie you did not choose.
Matched because ten of your sixteen approaches were played from rough, and the 225+ yard band cost −2.7 on its own.
Two approaches this round flew roughly fifty 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.
The drill that closes the loop: a structured block you can log, so next week AVA can tell you whether it worked.
Lessons are selected against the leak your own data exposed. You do not search a library and guess which video applies to you.
When the most expensive thing in your game stops being the most expensive thing, the playlist changes to whatever is.
Instruction from nationally ranked teachers is part of the $25 a month, not an upsell inside it.
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There is no import path for Grint rounds or its handicap today, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. Tell us you track there and it goes on the queue. Meanwhile the analysis above runs on any source AVA does read — including GHIN, which syncs natively.
Start with a source AVA readsKeep tracking either way. Your history is what a connection would read, and none of it expires.
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Your history is what a connection would read. None of it expires.
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THE GRINT + AVA GOLF
The Grint is good at the thing most apps treat as an afterthought: keeping an honest, current handicap with the rounds behind it. That number is the cleanest outcome measure an amateur has.
It is also a single number standing in for eighteen holes and about seventy decisions. Two golfers with the same handicap can have nothing in common: one hits it everywhere and scrambles, the other is dead straight and three-putts twice a round. Same number, opposite practice plans.
AVA prices every measure in strokes against a scratch baseline, so driving, approach play, short game, putting and penalties land on one comparable scale. That is the part a handicap was never designed to give you.
A handicap is calculated from your better recent rounds, which means it responds quickly to a good week and slowly to real improvement. Play well twice and it drops without anything changing. Genuinely improve and it can sit still for a month.
The underlying measures do not behave that way. Strokes gained by category, dispersion, gapping and strike quality move when your game moves, which makes them a far better answer to 'am I getting better?'
The handicap then confirms it a few weeks later, which is exactly the right order to read them in.
Look at the scorecard above. Two holes did the damage: a 7 on the par-4 2nd and a 6 on the par-4 9th, five shots between them, with two penalty strokes in the round. The other seven holes came in at level par between them.
This is the most common shape in amateur scoring, and it means the fastest route to a lower handicap is usually not better golf. It is fewer disasters: a 3-wood where the trouble sits at 250, a wedge back into play instead of the hero shot, one more club into a front pin.
AVA finds where your rounds break, prices each decision, and hands you the small number of changes that would have saved the most shots. Then it updates as you improve, because the answer moves.
Not today. The Grint is not a connected source, and there is no import path for its rounds or its handicap, so nothing on this page is claiming otherwise. Tell us you want it and it goes on the list.
Not a reliable one. AVA's CSV import is built around shot-level launch monitor and simulator files, and a Grint export does not map onto it cleanly enough to trust the output. We would rather tell you that than half-read your season.
No. If a connection is built it will be read-only by design. AVA would never post, edit or delete a score, and you would keep posting exactly as you do now.
That is the plan, and it is the reason to keep posting. Your rounds live in your Grint account, and a connection reads history rather than starting from the day it is switched on.
Anything AVA reads today. Garmin rounds sync natively, and any launch monitor or simulator that exports shot rows imports directly, which covers most golfers who own more than one piece of kit.
Not for AVA's sake, now or later. What your Grint plan includes is between you and The Grint; AVA's side of it is reading whatever round data you are able to share.
You do. Nothing is shared with a coach, a club or anyone else unless you send them a link, and you can export or delete everything whenever you want.
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