Lesson 01
Travis Fulton
Golf Digest Best Teachers in Florida
8 min
Building a bag that has no holes
Matched because two of your clubs cover the same six yards, which leaves seventeen yards under them with nothing to hit.
GC3 + Foresight GC3 vs GC3 + AVA
Three cameras, ball and club, and numbers that hold up indoors. Below: what one session shows you, what a folder of them is worth, and what changes when AVA reads the lot.
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One block, two readouts
Seventy-one 7-irons. One of them told you something.
Both columns describe the same forty minutes in the bay. The left one is accurate and complete. The right one is the one you can act on.
The monitor on its own 157
- Avg carry
- 157 yds
- Best carry
- 168 yds
- Ball speed
- 118 mph
- Smash
- 1.38
- Spread
- ±11 yds
A faithful record of what happened, and no opinion about which part of it mattered.
The same block, read by AVA −2.71
- Gapping
- −2.71
- Strike quality
- −1.84
- Distance control
- −1.12
- Start line
- −0.43
The finding
You practised the club you already own. Your 7 and 8-iron carry within six yards of each other, which leaves seventeen yards under them with nothing to hit — and that band is where eight of your last twelve approach shots came from.
Three setups, side by side
What each setup can actually tell you
The GC3 is camera measurement at a prosumer price: ball and club measured rather than modelled, which is what makes indoor numbers trustworthy.
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| Capability | GC3, one session | GC3, every session | GC3 + AVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carry, ball speed, launch angle | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Spin rate | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Club path, face and attack angle | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Impact location on the face | Not measured | Not measured | Read as absent, never guessed |
| The carry you can count on, not the best one | Average only | Average only | P10 to P90, per club |
| Gaps and overlaps across the bag | You eyeball it | You eyeball it | Found and priced |
| Practice priced in strokes per round | No | No | Against a scratch baseline |
| Sessions and course rounds on one timeline | No | No | Scored the same way |
| The point the session stopped paying | No | You can scroll back | Strike quality per block |
| Which two or three things to practise | You decide | You decide | Ranked by what it cost you |
| Instruction matched to the leak | No | No | Top 100 teaching pros |
Impact location is the GCQuad's addition, not the GC3's, and AVA will not invent it. Everything else on this list the GC3 measures outright.
What you get back
What your data looks like inside AVA
Real charts from the app, built from the shots your unit already measured.
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Then someone shows you how to fix it
Finding the leak is half of it. AVA matches what your sessions 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 A 6-yard hole between the 7 and 8-iron, and 17 yards under it −2.71
4 lessons · 31 min
Lesson 02
Tom Stickney
Golf Magazine Top 100 alum
9 min
Centre strike before ball speed
Your short misses are strike, not swing. This is the block that finds the middle of the face before it chases another yard.
Lesson 03
Cheryl Anderson
Golf Digest 50 Best Teachers in America
7 min
Start line, then shape
The whole session misses the same direction with every club, which is a setup fix rather than a swing rebuild.
Lesson 04
Jason Birnbaum
Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher
7 min
A session with a scorecard
Blocked reps stop paying after sixty balls. This is the structure that keeps the last forty worth hitting.
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.
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Instruction from nationally ranked teachers is part of the $25 a month, not an upsell inside it.
Connect once
One FSX export, and every session lands in order.
Export a session from FSX Play, FSX 2020 or FSX Pro and hand it over in the first step of onboarding. Impact, launch, dispersion and gapping come back weighed against how you actually score.
Start for freeYour sessions stay yours. AVA reads what you upload and never writes back to FSX, 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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One CSV out of FSX, dropped into onboarding. Every shot and every parameter comes with it.
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AVA reads every shot
Impact, launch, dispersion and gapping, weighed against how you actually score.
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The two or three things worth your next session, ranked by what they cost you.
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FORESIGHT GC3 + AVA GOLF
Turn your Foresight GC3 sessions into lower scores
Camera indoors beats radar indoors
This is the practical reason a GC3 sits in so many garages. Radar needs ball flight to measure; cut the flight off after eight feet into a net and more of the numbers become modelled rather than observed.
Photometric units read the ball at impact, so a GC3 in a net produces the same quality of data as a GC3 outdoors. For a home setup with limited space, that is the whole argument.
AVA treats a GC3 net session as a full session rather than discounting it the way it discounts radar-in-a-net carry numbers. Your gapping ladder off a GC3 is one you can actually play to.
Gapping is what a home unit is for
The highest-value thing you can do with a GC3 is not swing work. It is bag work: finding out what each club actually carries, in volume, with no wind and no guessing.
Look at the ladder in the sample session. Two clubs covering the same six yards, and a seventeen-yard band beneath them with nothing in it. On the course that never announces itself: you take a bit more club, swing a bit softer, and file the result under 'poor shot'.
It takes one focused session to find and a bench visit to fix, and a bag that covers its distances is worth more to your scoring than most swing changes you will ever attempt.
What to do when the GC3 and the course disagree
A GC3 carry off a mat tends to sit slightly above what the same swing produces off turf, because a mat lets a fat strike slide into the ball instead of digging.
That is not a reason to distrust the unit. It is a reason to treat the session number as your ceiling and the course number as the truth, which is precisely how AVA holds them: sessions set the ladder, rounds decide which rungs cost you shots.
The habit worth building is picking your yardage from the reliable end of your distribution rather than the middle of it, and letting the data tell you where that line sits.
GC3 questions, answered
What can a GCQuad tell me that a GC3 can't?
Impact location on the face. That single field is what lets AVA attribute a wide carry spread to toe strikes rather than to the swing. A GC3 file supports everything else: gapping, dispersion, spin, delivery.
Does the GC3 work well in a net?
Yes, better than radar does. It reads the ball at impact rather than tracking flight, so a net session is a full session and its carry numbers are ones you can play to.
Does AVA change anything in FSX?
No. AVA reads the file you export and never writes back. Your sessions and your FSX library stay exactly as they are.
Can I compare GC3 sessions to a fitting I did on a GCQuad?
Yes. Both are photometric Foresight units reporting through FSX, so the shared parameters line up. AVA keeps them as separate sessions and compares the trend rather than averaging them together.
Does the ball I hit matter?
For spin, yes. Range and foam balls do not behave like a premium ball, so AVA weighs spin-dependent conclusions from those sessions accordingly.
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