Approach overview

How often do your approach shots finish close enough to your target?

In the app: Distance control

What it measures

  • Your within-tolerance rate: shots that finished inside the drill's target zone, divided by all shots with a known distance. The size of the zone is set by the drill and level you play.
  • Next to it you see your best session (from 10 shots) and your next milestone, the next round 10 points up.
  • Performance by lie splits the rate into fairway, low rough, high rough and training mat, using the question you answer when you save a session.

How it helps you

One number for "how good are my irons and wedges right now", which you can track from week to week.

The lie split shows if your range numbers carry over to real grass, or only exist on a mat.

Drills behind this insight

Record any of these in the app and this insight updates when you save the session.

The 9-Shot Matrix, Setup Gate and Divot Board have no distance target, so they do not count here. Divot Board has its own Contact quality card.

Examples, and what the coach says

Example 1

Good from the mat, weak from rough

90 approach shots with the lie answered.

Within tolerance
42 %
38 of 90 shots
Best session
60 %
Next milestone
50 %
Performance by lie
Fairway
53 % 16 of 30
Training mat
45 % 18 of 40
Low rough
20 % 4 of 20

How to read it

  • Your average of 42 % is pulled down by one lie.
  • Fairway at 53 % and mat at 45 % are close to each other, so your range work does carry over.
  • Low rough at 20 % is the outlier, and 20 shots is enough to take it seriously.
AI coachFocus: Approach shots from low rough

From the fairway you are at 53 %, against 20 % from low rough. Your best session of 60 % shows the swing is there, so the lie is what is costing you the most.

Next session: Put more reps on shots from low rough. Three Targets works outdoors on grass, and answering the lie question will let you see this bar move.

Example 2

Steady improvement

60 approach shots from the fairway over five sessions.

Within tolerance
55 %
33 of 60 shots
Next milestone
60 %
Within tolerance by session
42 %67 %
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How to read it

  • Your average of 55 % understates where you are now, because the early sessions are in it.
  • The latest session, at 67 %, is above the milestone you are chasing.
  • One high session is not a new level. Two or three in a row are.
AI coachFocus: Lock in the gain

You are within tolerance 55 % of the time across 60 shots, and your recent sessions are well above that. The average will catch up by itself if you keep your routine.

Next session: Push for 60 % next. Your Distance ladder will show which distance is furthest from it, so that you can spend your time there.

All numbers here are illustrative sample data, and the coach notes show the kind of advice you get. In the app, the AI coach reads all your approach data and gives you one focus with its reasoning, based on your own sessions. Each chart also has a one-line takeaway of its own.