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.
MLM + Rapsodo MLM vs MLM + AVA
The original measures fewer things, and it measures carry perfectly well — which is the input the most expensive problem in your bag needs. Below: what one session shows you, and where the honest limit is.
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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
Carry and dispersion are all a gapping finding needs, and gapping is the single most common way an amateur bag loses strokes. The original MLM measures both.
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| Capability | MLM, one session | MLM, every session | MLM + AVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carry, ball speed, launch angle | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Spin rate | Estimated from ball flight | Estimated from ball flight | Measured |
| Club path, face and attack angle | 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 |
AVA does not guess at a number the MLM did not measure. Where club delivery would have named a cause, the finding stops at the pattern and says so — which still changes what you hit next.
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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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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No lesson fees
Instruction from nationally ranked teachers is part of the $25 a month, not an upsell inside it.
Connect once
One export, and the bucket starts paying.
Export a session from the Rapsodo app and hand it over in the first step of onboarding. Carry, dispersion, strike quality and gapping come back scored the same way as your on-course rounds.
Start for freeYour sessions stay yours. AVA reads what you upload and never writes back to Rapsodo, 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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Start free, upload a session
One CSV out of the Rapsodo app, dropped into onboarding. Every shot it measured comes with it.
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AVA reads every shot
Carry, dispersion, strike quality and gapping, measured against how you actually score.
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One plan for this week
The two or three things worth your next bucket of balls, ranked by what they cost you.
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One question this unit answers completely
What does each club in your bag actually carry? Not the number on the shaft band, not what it did once downwind: the number you can commit to under pressure.
That is the input for the finding in the sample session: two clubs covering the same six yards and a seventeen-yard band beneath them with nothing in it. It costs strokes every round and it is invisible on a golf course, because on a course you take a bit more club and move on.
An MLM and one focused session finds it. A bench visit fixes it. No spin axis or attack angle was required at any point.
The second question: which number to write down
Most golfers average a bucket of 7-irons and treat the result as their yardage. It is the middle of a distribution, and roughly half their shots land short of it.
In the sample session only 38% of 7-irons finished within five yards of the average, which is exactly why the typical amateur approach miss is short, again and again.
AVA reads the distribution rather than the mean. Carry data alone is entirely sufficient for that, and acting on it is worth more than most swing changes and costs nothing.
Where to stop, and what to do about it
The honest limit is cause. When your miss is a consistent curve, this file tells you which side it lives on but not why, and face-dominant and path-dominant misses need opposite fixes.
You do not need to buy anything to settle it. One session on a club-measuring unit (a fitting, an indoor bay, a lesson) exported as a CSV is enough, and AVA will hold that single file against your whole MLM history.
Failing that, let your rounds decide. A curve that shows up in the bag but never costs you on the card is a different problem from one that appears on every approach, and AVA reads rounds and sessions together precisely so that comparison is available.
Original MLM questions, answered
Is the original MLM still worth using?
For gapping and real yardages, yes, and those are the two findings that cost most golfers the most strokes. What it cannot do is tell you why a shot curved. One caveat on the file rather than the unit: AVA is built around the MLM2PRO export, so an original MLM CSV may not parse yet.
Why does AVA call my spin 'estimated'?
Because on this unit it is modelled from flight rather than measured off a marked ball. Descent-angle and green-holding conclusions depend on spin, so AVA marks them directional rather than presenting them as settled.
Can AVA work out my club path from this data?
It could model one, and it won't. Presenting a modelled number as confidently as a measured one is how golfers rebuild a swing to fix a grip.
Should I upgrade to the MLM2PRO?
Only if attribution is your open question. If your gapping is still unresolved and your yardages are still guesses, the unit you own has more to give you than an upgrade does.
Will my older sessions upload?
Bring them with you and you find out. The export AVA reads today is the MLM2PRO shape, and an original MLM file may not parse yet. Where it does read, years of sessions beat one: history is what separates a real trend from a good week.
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