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.
SkyTrak (original) + SkyTrak (original) vs SkyTrak + AVA
The original measures the ball, not the club — and the ball is enough for the most expensive problem in most bags. Below: what one session shows you, what a folder of them is worth, 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
No club data is a real limit and not a fatal one. Gapping, carry consistency and dispersion are all ball-side findings, and they are where most amateur strokes go.
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| Capability | SkyTrak, one session | SkyTrak, every session | SkyTrak + AVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carry, ball speed, launch angle | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Spin rate | Measured | Measured | 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 your unit did not measure. Where club delivery would have named a cause, the finding stops at the pattern and says so — which is still enough to change 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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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.
Included
No lesson fees
Instruction from nationally ranked teachers is part of the $25 a month, not an upsell inside it.
Connect once
One Shot History export, and the bay starts paying.
Export your Shot History from the SkyTrak 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 SkyTrak, 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 SkyTrak app, dropped into onboarding. Every shot it measured comes with it.
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AVA reads every shot
Carry, dispersion, strike quality and club 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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SKYTRAK + AVA GOLF
Turn your original SkyTrak sessions into lower scores
The most valuable finding needs no club data at all
Look at the gapping ladder in the sample session. Two clubs covering the same six yards, and a seventeen-yard band beneath them that nothing covers. That is worth several shots a round, and it comes entirely out of carry numbers.
It is also invisible on a course. You stand over a yardage that falls in the hole, take a bit more club, swing a bit softer, and file the result under 'poor shot'. Two or three times a round, for years.
One focused session on an original SkyTrak finds it. A bench visit fixes it. No club delivery data was involved at any point.
The second most valuable finding is your real yardage
The single most expensive habit in indoor practice is writing down an average carry and treating it as a yardage. It is the middle of a distribution, and roughly half your 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, over and over again.
AVA reads the whole distribution instead of the mean and gives you the number you can commit to. Ball data is entirely sufficient for that, and acting on it is worth more than most swing changes.
Where the older unit runs out, and what to do about it
The honest limit is attribution. When your miss is a consistent curve, ball data tells you the shape but not the cause, and face-dominant and path-dominant misses need opposite fixes.
You have two ways round it that don't involve buying anything. One: get a single session on a club-measuring unit (a fitting, an indoor bay, a lesson) and export it. One good file is enough to settle the question, and AVA will hold it against your SkyTrak history.
Two: let your rounds answer it. AVA reads tracked rounds alongside sessions, and a miss that shows up in the bag but never costs you on the card is a different problem from one that shows up on every approach.
Original SkyTrak questions, answered
Is my original SkyTrak too old to be useful?
No. It measures the ball well, and the two highest-value findings in most sessions (a gapping hole and an unreliable yardage) come entirely out of ball data.
What am I actually missing versus SkyTrak+?
Attribution. Ball data shows you the shape of a miss; club delivery tells you whether it is a face pattern or a path pattern. Those need opposite fixes, so it matters, but it is one category of conclusion, not all of them.
Can AVA estimate my club path from ball data?
It could, and it won't. Presenting a modelled number with the same confidence as a measured one is how golfers end up rebuilding a swing to fix a grip. AVA says what the file supports.
Does the ball I hit matter?
For spin, a lot. Use one consistent premium ball when you care about descent angle and holding greens; AVA weighs spin from range and foam balls accordingly.
Will old sessions still upload?
Yes, and years of them is better than one. History is what turns a snapshot into a trend.
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