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.
Trackman 4 + Trackman 4 vs Trackman 4 + AVA
Dual radar outdoors, full ball flight, more than forty parameters a shot. Below: what one session shows you, what a season of them is worth, and what changes when AVA ranks them.
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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
Nothing here is a criticism of the measurement: a Trackman 4 outdoors is as good as this gets. The question is what happens to forty parameters once the bay door closes.
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| Capability | Trackman 4, one session | Trackman 4, every session | Trackman 4 + AVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carry, ball speed, launch angle | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Spin rate | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Club path, face and attack angle | Measured | Measured | Measured |
| Full outdoor ball flight | Tracked | Tracked | Used for real carry, not modelled carry |
| 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 |
The middle column is the honest one: a folder of sessions is not a plan. What changes in the third is that every shot is weighed against the golf you actually play, and the order that comes back is what to 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 export, and the parameters start ranking themselves.
Export a session report from Trackman and hand it over in the first step of onboarding. Every shot comes with it — delivery, launch, dispersion and gapping — 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 Trackman, 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 Trackman, dropped into onboarding. Every parameter it measured comes with it.
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AVA reads every shot
Delivery, launch, dispersion and gapping, weighed against how you actually score.
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One plan for this week
The two or three things worth your next bay hour, ranked by what they cost you.
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TRACKMAN 4 + AVA GOLF
Turn your Trackman 4 sessions into lower scores
Outdoors is where the carry numbers are real
Radar measures flight, so the more flight it sees the less it has to model. On a range with two hundred yards in front of the unit, a Trackman 4 is measuring rather than inferring almost everything in the file.
That makes an outdoor Trackman session the best gapping data you will ever generate. Not an approximation of your carry numbers. They are your carry numbers.
AVA weights it accordingly. Where an indoor session sets your strike baseline and defers on yardages, an outdoor Trackman 4 session sets the ladder itself.
Run a combine, then run it again
A combine is the most underrated thing available to an amateur on this unit. Fixed distances, fixed shot count, a single score, which means it is repeatable, and repeatable is the only property that makes a number a trend.
One combine tells you where you are. Four combines across a season tells you whether the work is working, which is the question everyone actually has and almost nobody has evidence for.
AVA treats combines as benchmarks rather than as ordinary sessions, so March and July get compared to each other and to the rounds you played in between.
Forty parameters, three decisions
The failure mode of this much data is a technical conversation that never reaches the golf course. A golfer leaves with a note about attack angle and no idea that their 8-iron and 7-iron cover the same six yards.
Both facts are in the file. Only one of them is on the scorecard, and AVA's ranking is what keeps them in the right order.
Every measure is converted into strokes against a scratch baseline, which puts delivery, gapping and strike decay on one comparable scale. Sometimes the output of a tour-grade session is 'take one more club into the green', and that is the correct output.
Trackman 4 questions, answered
Do I need to own the unit?
No. If you hit at a Trackman range, a fitter or a coach's studio and the shots were recorded under your own account, the session is in your history and exports as a CSV.
Is outdoor data better than indoor?
For gapping, meaningfully. Radar measures flight, so more flight means less modelling. Indoors a Trackman is still an excellent strike and delivery tool. See the iO page for that case.
Are combines worth running?
They are the best benchmark available to you. Fixed conditions make them repeatable, and repeatable is what turns a score into a trend. AVA tracks combines as their own series.
Which parameters does AVA report on?
The ones moving your score: gapping, dispersion, strike quality and the delivery pair behind your habitual miss. The rest feed trends rather than crowding the read.
Does AVA change anything in my Trackman account?
No. AVA reads the file you export and never writes back. Your sessions and combines stay exactly as they are.
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