Logging a round

You pick the course on the Logger tab and tap Start round. Everything else is on the next screen, in this order.

First the round’s own settings. The date, which defaults to today. Whether it was practice, qualifying or a tournament. Whether you are playing 9 or 18. And whether you are going off the 1st or the 10th — the app then shows you the hole order it will use.

Then the questions about your day. How you slept, whether you arrived rushed, how the warm-up went, and where your head was on the first tee. Those four are required before you can start; ten more sit behind More detail if you have the time.

This is not admin. It is what lets the app tell you later that your best rounds have something in common, and it cannot work that out from rounds where nobody wrote it down.

You do not have to remember any of this. While you are recording, tap ••• → How to log for the same steps inside the app, on the hole you are standing on.

Every shot gets exactly one code, and it describes your mind at the moment you played it — not where the ball finished.

• MMindful. You were committed to the shot. You knew what you were trying to do and you were there for it.
• FFocus. Your attention was somewhere else. The group behind, the score, the trouble, the last hole.
• RRoutine. You skipped or rushed the routine you know works.
• EEmotion. Frustration, anger, nerves or doubt got in the way of the shot — or you forced it, trying to make something happen rather than playing the shot in front of you.

Deciding between them gets easier with examples. The app carries a Mindset cheat sheet — ••• → Mindset cheat sheet while you are recording — listing what earns each of the four codes, including the walking one.

1. 1

   Set the hole

   Par, your score, and any penalty strokes. The app needs these before it can check your codes add up.
2. 2

   Code every shot, by type

   Tee Shot, Approach, Short Game (50 yards and in) and Putting — one code for each shot you played in that part of the hole. Do it as you go rather than at the green; the longer you leave it, the more the result colours your memory of what your mind was doing.
3. 3

   Add one walking code

   One per hole, for how your mind was between shots. It is a fifth of what the app learns about you and it is the one people forget.
4. 4

   Check it balances

   The shot codes must equal your score minus penalties, and walking must be set. The app tells you what is missing as you go — “2 more shots to log”, “1 shot too many logged” — and says Balanced when the hole is complete.

You cannot move on to the next hole until the current one is logged and balanced. That is deliberate — a half-finished hole is data nobody can use, and the check is what keeps every stroke of the round accounted for.

So if the group is pushing you along, or you would rather keep your head out of a phone while you play, there is a second way to do it:

To fix a hole you have already completed, tap ••• and pick it, or open Review and tap the hole. Holes you have not reached yet stay locked. The same menu holds a reminder of what earns each code.

The app works with no signal. Everything is saved on the phone as you go and syncs when you are back in range, so a course with no bars is not a problem.

Every round you log feeds two things: the round’s own results, and the picture that builds across rounds.

Reading one round →Reading your trends →