PERFORMANCE

Every shot evaluated. Your primary focus in one line.

AVA Golf scores every shot you take in strokes gained, benchmarking your rounds against your target skill level or your own past. What comes back is not a wall of charts. It is one clear sentence naming the primary leak costing you the most, and the exact strokes it is costing you.

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PRIMARY FOCUS

BENCHMARK: PEER (11.4)

Approach play is costing you 1.8 strokes a round.

VIEW ISSUES
Handicap Index®
11.4 REVISED AS SCORES POST
Scoring average
88.6 NORMALIZED TO 18 HOLES
SG:APP −1.82 · CALIBRATED · 20 RDS

EXAMPLE READING · YOUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS BUILT FROM YOUR OWN ROUNDS

THE BASELINE

Calibrated to your target: peer handicap, tour level, or your own past

A number only gives direction when measured against the right benchmark. Three principles decide what yours means, and none of them is an arbitrary leaderboard.

  1. 01

    Every shot evaluated in strokes gained

    Rounds from a GPS watch or sensor app, scored shot by shot against verified benchmark data. A 280-yard drive and a six-footer end up on the exact same scale, making every phase of the game directly comparable.

  2. 02

    Your window is your recent rounds

    Five, ten or twenty, your choice. Long enough that a true pattern separates from a bad afternoon, responsive enough that it reflects your current game rather than last season.

  3. 03

    Your benchmark matches your ambition

    Choose your target: benchmark against golfers with your handicap to reveal immediate relative leaks, measure against scratch or PGA Tour level to target elite ball-striking, or compare against your own historical rounds to prove if practice is moving the needle.

WHERE THE STROKES GO

Five screens, in the order of play

Overview, driving, approach, around the green, and putting — one screen each, in the natural order you play the game. Each one isolates your performance and shows the working underneath.

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Overview · SG by category Where your strokes actually go -2.6 DRIVE -3.7 APPR -2.0 SHORT 0.1 PUTT −8.2 NET
The four categories on one comparable scale. Putting gained 0.1, approach lost 3.7 — and the round finished −8.2. Over a window of rounds, the deepest bar points directly to your primary focus.
Driving · Miss tendency Your miss has a direction AVG MISS 5Y RIGHT 40Y LEFT TARGET 40Y RIGHT ALL 7 TEE SHOTS OF ONE ROUND · NOT YET A PATTERN
A fairways-hit percentage says how often. This says where — all 7 tee shots plotted by how far offline they finished. Across a window of rounds, the average becomes a reliable aim point.
Approach · SG by distance Not the category, the yardage 30-50 +1.28 50-75 +0.01 75-125 −1.19 125-175 −0.52 175-225 −0.62 225+ −2.67 TOTAL SG · YARDS
"Work on your approach play" is not actionable. Your 4 approaches from 225+ yards lost 2.7 between them, pinpointing the exact yardage band you need to practise against.
Around the green · Scrambling & proximity Leave distance decides the save PIN AVG LEAVE 8.4 FT · SCRAMBLING 33% RINGS: 3 / 6 / 10 / 15 FT
Scrambling lives or dies on chip proximity. In this round, up-and-down conversion was 33% with an average leave of 8.4 feet. Across your window, AVA isolates whether you lose saves from the sand, the rough, or short-sided pins.
Putting · Putt by putt Where the putts actually go 0 +1 -1 0 15 30 45 60 FEET · FILLED = HOLED
14 putts over 9 holes reads like a steady day. Evaluated putt by putt it gained 0.1 strokes net, with make-rate tracked inside 6 feet and lag distance monitored outside 30 feet.
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THE LOOP

From the diagnostic leak to the fix and back

Your primary focus is not a passive stat. It is where targeted practice begins, and the exact metric that proves afterwards whether the fix held on the course.

What is in the playlist
  1. 01

    AVA isolates your primary leak

    One category, one quantified figure in strokes per round. Instead of a scattered list of everything that could improve, AVA spotlights the single biggest opportunity right now.

  2. 02

    The chip opens your priority issues

    It links straight into that category's underlying issues. AVA holds three active issues at a time, ranked by how many strokes each one will give back to your handicap.

  3. 03

    The playlist matches Top-100 coaches

    Curated coaching videos are sequenced for each of your three issues, drawn from a roster of Top-100 instructors. You receive an actionable starting point rather than an overwhelming video library.

  4. 04

    The next round tests the intervention

    Same window, same benchmark, same strokes-gained scale. When you post your next score, the numbers recalculate to show whether the needle moved. That is the proof a traditional scorecard cannot provide.

HANDICAP INDEX®

Your official index, beside the shots that created it

AVA Golf is a USGA Handicap Data Affiliate, so your official Handicap Index® lives right alongside your Strokes Gained data rather than in a separate app — updated automatically as scores post. Your handicap stops being a static number and becomes connected to the shot tendencies driving it.

No USGA account connected? AVA estimates a playing ability index from your rounds and clearly labels it an estimate. Every other feature works identically.

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USGA DATA AFFILIATE LIVE SYNC
OFFICIAL HANDICAP INDEX® 11.4 REVISED DAILY · 20 DIFFERENTIALS

GHIN INTEGRATED · REVISED AS ROUNDS POST

PLAIN TERMS

Three things this is not

  • NOT A SCORECARD

    A score says what happened on one afternoon. Strokes gained over a rolling window, against your chosen benchmark, reveals what keeps happening. Only the second one builds an effective practice plan.

  • NOT A LEADERBOARD

    Performance benchmarks you against your target level and your own past. No other golfer's rounds or names appear anywhere in your private dashboard.

  • NOT A GUESS

    Reliable patterns require enough rounds to eliminate noise. Until your window fills, AVA displays calibration status rather than offering a premature diagnosis.

PRECISION PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE

How AVA Golf reads a game

Strokes gained, over a window

Strokes gained evaluates a shot against expected stroke value from that exact distance and lie. Hit an approach from 140 yards to eight feet and you have gained; leave it in the bunker and you have lost. The unit is consistent everywhere, which is why a tee shot, a chip, and a four-footer can be compared on one unified scale.

One round is a snapshot. Twenty rounds is a reliable diagnosis. AVA Golf operates over a rolling window — your last five, ten, or twenty rounds — so a single bad bounce cannot distort your practice plan, and a lucky round cannot hide a chronic leak.

Flexible benchmarks: peer group, tour standard, or your own past

Different goals require different baselines. Benchmarking against peers at your current handicap isolates the relative weakness holding you in your current flight. Comparing against scratch or PGA Tour standards reveals absolute ball-striking quality for competitive players looking to reach the next level.

Equally vital is your personal baseline. AVA tracks your rolling historical performance so you can verify whether focused practice actually moved your personal expectation over time. You select the lens; AVA provides the clarity.

On-course scoring meets launch monitor precision

Your on-course rounds reveal where you leak strokes; your range and simulator sessions explain why. By connecting launch monitor data — club path, face angle, impact location, and attack angle — directly to your on-course shot outcomes, AVA links your swing mechanics to your scorecard.

One connected source is enough to start. Add more trackers or launch monitors over time and the picture deepens, but a single tracking watch or unit already produces a performance profile worth studying.

Proving whether the swing change held

Every metric carries its direction alongside its value — improving, stable, or declining relative to the prior window. An approach deficit recovering by twenty percent over your last five rounds is tangible proof that your practice intervention worked on the course.

A metric that remains unchanged is valuable feedback too. It means the drill has not yet transferred to your natural on-course swing or was aimed at the wrong root cause. Nothing here asks you to rely on vague sensations about your game.

Questions

What is in the Performance tab?

Five screens, in the order of play — an overview, then driving, approach, around the green, and putting. The overview displays your primary focus, your handicap, and your scoring average. Each category screen details its strokes gained and supporting metrics: fairway miss tendency and penalty avoidance for driving; proximity by yardage bracket for approach; scrambling rate, sand saves, and leave distance for around the green; make-rates inside six feet and three-putt avoidance for putting.

What is strokes gained?

An objective framework that calculates the value of every shot against statistical expectations based on starting distance and lie condition. AVA Golf evaluates your rounds this way so driving, approach play, short game, and putting are measured on one unified scale. Read the full answer

What benchmarks can I measure against?

You can benchmark against golfers at your Handicap Index to expose your biggest relative weaknesses, measure against scratch or PGA Tour standards to evaluate absolute shot quality, or track against your own past 20 rounds to confirm your personal trajectory.

How many rounds before AVA identifies my primary focus?

Enough rounds to establish a statistically valid pattern rather than a one-off afternoon. Until you meet the window threshold, Performance displays your calibration status rather than offering a premature diagnosis.

Can I change the window?

Yes. Your last 5, 10 or 20 rounds, switched at the top of the page. Every figure below it recalculates against the window you select.

Do practice sessions affect my performance figures?

Range and simulator sessions feed your Swing Profile — tracking club delivery, face-to-path, and strike consistency — while on-course rounds drive your Strokes Gained performance. AVA bridges the two so your practice directly targets your on-course scoring leaks.

Is my Handicap Index® official?

If you connect your USGA account, yes — AVA Golf is a USGA Handicap Data Affiliate and your official Handicap Index® is kept current as scores post. Without that connection AVA estimates an index from your rounds and labels it an estimate. Connect your USGA account

How soon after a round do the numbers update?

Once the sync finishes. While rounds are still importing, Performance tells you it is recalculating rather than showing you half an answer.

What if my losses are evenly spread?

Then AVA highlights that balance as a positive finding — your strokes are distributed evenly rather than bleeding from one specific vulnerability. Your coaching playlist continues working from your top three mechanical issues.

What does it cost?

Nothing for the first 14 days, then $25 a month. Performance, rounds, practice sessions, Top-100 coaching playlists and every integration are included in one price. See everything included

ONE NUMBER TO START WITH

Find out where your last twenty rounds are leaking strokes.

Connect one tracking source, let AVA Golf evaluate your rounds, and uncover your primary focus area. One category, one stroke value, and the coaching videos that address it a tap away.

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