Connected Your Approach sessions already land in your Garmin account. AVA is the part that reads them back and tells you which gap is costing you.
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On the left is the session summary you already get. On the right is the same session after AVA reads it, priced in the strokes it costs you on the course. Pick a session.
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Your 7 and 8-iron carry within six yards of each other, so the seventeen yards under them has no club at all. Get the 8-iron loft checked before you change anything in the swing.
Club by club
That first session broken into the clubs you hit. Swipe across. The number beside each is the carry you can actually count on, not the one you remember.
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The widest club in the bag and the one you can least afford to be wide with, but the shape is repeatable.
Nothing to fix here. This is what a covered yardage looks like, and it is the reference for everything below it.
Half the session went into one club, and it is the one that overlaps the club under it. Volume is not the same as progress.
The whole problem in one card. This club sits six yards under the 7 iron and seventeen above the 9, which is a bag-setup fix, not a swing fix.
A good club with nothing above it. Seventeen yards of approach shots arrive here by default and get hit too hard.
Full swings are tight and part swings are not, which is where the wedge block in the third session comes from.
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Real charts from the app, built from the shots your launch monitor already measured.
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Matched because two of your clubs cover the same six yards, which leaves seventeen yards under them with nothing to hit.
Your short misses are strike, not swing. This is the block that finds the middle of the face before it chases another yard.
The whole session misses the same direction with every club, which is a setup fix rather than a swing rebuild.
Blocked reps stop paying after sixty balls. This is the structure that keeps the last forty worth hitting.
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.
Connect once
Approach sessions sync into your Garmin account by themselves, so there is nothing to export. Authorise the connection once and every session lands next to the rounds your watch records, scored the same way.
Connect GarminAVA reads your Garmin data 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.
Authorise the connection once in onboarding. No exports, no files, no setup call.
Carry, dispersion, strike quality and gapping, measured against how you actually score.
The two or three things worth your next session, ranked by what they cost you.
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Most launch monitors hand you a file and leave the rest to you. The Approach R10 and R50 are different: if you practise with either one and play with an Approach watch, both halves of your game land in one Garmin account automatically.
That matters more than it sounds. The most useful comparison in golf data is between what you hit on the range and what you hit on the course, and it is normally impossible because the two live in different apps with different exports.
AVA reads both sides of a Garmin account, which means it can tell you that your practice 7-iron carries 157 and your on-course 7-iron finishes 149 from where you hit it. Your watch measures the shot ball to ball, not the carry, so the two are not the same number — and the gap between them explains more amateur approach misses than any swing analysis.
Practice numbers almost always sit above course numbers, and there are three ordinary reasons: a mat forgives a fat strike, a range ball is not your ball, and nobody on a driving range is standing on a downslope into a breeze.
None of that makes practice data wrong. It makes it a ceiling: the number your best strike produces under ideal conditions.
AVA plays the two off each other rather than averaging them. Sessions set the ladder; rounds decide which rungs cost you shots. When the two disagree, the disagreement is the finding, and it is usually worth a club.
Consumer radar generally models spin rather than measuring it, and spin drives descent angle, which decides whether a green holds your approach.
So AVA is careful with it. Gapping, dispersion and strike conclusions stand on their own. Wedge and descent-angle conclusions are reported as directional when the spin behind them is estimated, rather than presented with the confidence of a measurement.
The practical upshot: use Approach data to fix your bag and your yardages, which is where most of the strokes are anyway, and treat spin findings as a hint rather than a verdict.
No. Garmin is a native sync: authorise the connection once and sessions arrive on their own. No CSVs, no files, no setup call.
Different half of the same account. This page is about practice sessions from an Approach launch monitor; the rounds page is about the rounds your watch records. One Garmin connection feeds both.
Any whose sessions sync into Garmin Golf, including the R10 and R50. AVA reads whichever parameters your unit reports and says plainly which conclusions the file supports.
No. The connection is read-only. AVA never writes back, so your sessions, rounds and club distances stay exactly as they are.
AVA brings in what your Garmin account makes available rather than starting from the day you connect. History is what turns a snapshot into a trend.
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 data.
You do. Nothing is shared with a coach, a club or anyone else unless you send them a link.
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