Go to the Sign Up page, enter your email and choose a password, then click Create Account. Check your inbox to verify your email before signing in.

Your benchmark is who your Strokes Gained is measured against. Choose the handicap level closest to your own. If you pick Scratch, a positive SG on a shot means you performed better than a scratch golfer would expect from that position. You can change your benchmark at any time in Settings — your historical shots will be recalculated automatically.

Enter a display name so your rounds are easy to identify. Choose metres or yards depending on what you use on the course — all distances in the app will display in your preferred unit.

14 standard clubs are ready to use from the moment you sign up. You can rename any club to match what you actually carry (e.g. rename "5 Wood" to "Driving Iron").

For each club, enter the distance it typically carries in the air (not including roll). The app uses this to auto-suggest the next shot's distance as you play — after logging a 7-iron from 150m, it subtracts your typical 7-iron distance to estimate how far you have left. Accurate distances mean less manual adjustment on the course.

Tap the green New Round button from the dashboard. Search for your course and select a tee. If your course isn't listed, go to the Courses tab to add it first.

For every shot, select your lie, set the distance to the hole, pick your club, and tap Save Shot. The app records your starting position and updates the previous shot's SG once you enter this one. See Shot Entry Scenarios for a guide to each lie type.

After the 18th hole, tap Finish Round. Your Strokes Gained stats for the full round will be calculated and saved, and you'll see a hole-by-hole summary.

The first shot on any hole defaults to Tee lie. Select your driver or appropriate club, set the distance to the hole (can use centre of the green distance), and choose a miss direction. Tee shots on par 4s and 5s count in your Driving SG category.

Select Fairway when your ball is in the short grass. For approaches from further than 55m, this counts toward your Approach SG. Closer than 55m, it counts as Around the Green.

Select Rough when your ball is in the long grass but you have a normal swing at the ball. Like Fairway, SG category is Approach (>55m) or Around the Green (<55m).

Select Recovery when your ball is in a position where your primary goal is getting back into play — trees, heavy rough, an awkward bank, or anywhere you cannot take a full swing toward the green. Recovery shots are tracked in their own SG category (Recovery) so a bad-luck wipe-out hole doesn't distort your Approach or Driving averages.

Select Bunker for any shot played from sand. The SG reference table has separate data for bunker shots, so your bunker performance is measured accurately. Bunker shots near the green count as Around the Green; fairway bunkers count as Approach.

Select Fringe for chips or pitches just off the green (counts as Around the Green SG). Select Green once you're on the putting surface — the app will auto-select Green if your previous shot ended on the green (counts as Putting SG).

Tap Add Penalty when you incur a stroke-and-distance penalty (ball out of bounds, water hazard where you're taking relief under penalty). The penalty is recorded as a −1 SG shot automatically. You don't need to enter distance — just continue logging your next shot from the drop zone.

In Stableford, once you've taken enough shots to score zero points on a hole, tap Pick Up. A prompt asks where your last shot ended up (lie and estimated distance to the hole). Enter this accurately — it's used to calculate SG for all the shots you played before picking up. The hole appears as "P/U" in the round summary.

The dashboard shows your overall SG trend across recent rounds and a breakdown by category. Positive SG means you gained strokes on the average player at your benchmark level. Negative SG means you lost strokes. Your weakest category is the highest-leverage area to practise.

Driving (tee shots on par 4/5), Approach (shots >55m, not off tee), Around the Green (shots <55m, not on green), Putting (shots on green), Recovery (any shot from trouble). The radar chart shows all five at once — a lopsided shape tells you exactly where to focus. Hover over any data point for the exact SG value.

Tap any round in the Rounds list to see a hole-by-hole breakdown. Each shot shows the lie, distance, club, and SG value. Holes where you picked up appear as "P/U". Use this to spot patterns — repeated negative SG from fairway bunkers, for example, is a clear practice target.

Go to the Courses tab and search by name. Select your course and choose the tee you normally play from. Each tee has hole distances that feed into the distance slider during shot entry.

If your course isn't listed, tap Add Course. Enter the course name, then add each tee with its colour and per-hole distances. Once saved, the course is available to all users.