The Grint 
You track with The Grint.
Now change your game.
Your Grint rounds already hold the answer — it keeps your rounds, your stats and a handicap you trust. AVA cannot read them yet, so this page shows what the analysis does with a tracked round, what you can start with today, and how to get The Grint on the list.
One Grint 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
What you can start with today
The analysis on this page is not specific to The Grint. It runs on any source AVA can read, so you do not have to wait to find out what your golf looks like priced in strokes.
SOURCES AVA READS TODAY · THE GRINT IS NOT AMONG THEM YET
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.
THE GRINT + AVA GOLF
Turn your Grint rounds into lower scores
A handicap is a summary, not a diagnosis
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.
Why the number moves when your game doesn't
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.
Two holes, not eighteen
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 four penalty strokes in the round. The other seven holes came in at one over 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.
The Grint questions, answered
Can AVA read my Grint rounds?
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.
Is there a workaround with a CSV?
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.
Would AVA touch my handicap?
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.
Will my existing history be usable later?
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.
What can I analyze in the meantime?
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.
Do I need a paid Grint plan for this?
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.
Who sees my data?
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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