Shot tracking
Shot tracking and shot maps from real rounds
A member playing a round can log each shot as they walk up to the ball — the club they hit, and where it finished. Nothing to buy, nothing to clip to a glove: the phone already in their pocket is the tracker. Every shot then appears on a satellite map of your course, and it becomes the most useful thing a coach at your club has ever had.
The round a member scores for their handicap is the same round that draws their shot map. One tap while they play, and the data is simply there.
The problem
Everything a golfer knows about their own game is a memory
Ask a club golfer how far they hit a 7-iron and you get their best ever. Ask where their drives finish and you get the good ones. The players who do have real numbers bought a launch monitor or a subscription tracker with sensors in every grip — and none of it reaches their club, their pro, or the course they actually play.
The response
The phone they're already scoring on becomes the tracker
In Shots mode the member picks the club and drops the shot when they reach the ball. Each shot keeps the position it came to rest at, and its distance is measured back to where it was struck — the previous shot's resting place, or the tee. A round therefore produces a real map: every hole traced from the tee, every club's distance measured, on satellite imagery of your own course.
Why it matters
What a truly connected club gains
A dispersion pattern, not an average
Filter the map to one club and it redraws: every shot with that club, each as its own line from where it was struck to where it finished. Twelve drives across four rounds show a shape — the miss that keeps repeating, the side of the fairway that never gets used. A single average hides exactly that.
Rounds you can lay over each other
Pick several rounds and they draw together in different colours, with a yardage table that colour-matches. That is how you see whether the change held: the same hole, the same club, three weeks apart, on one screen.
Distances a player can actually plan with
Per club: average distance, the spread around it, the longest, and how many shots it is built from. A club counts as reliable only when there is a decent sample and those distances cluster tightly — so a player learns which clubs they can commit to and which are a coin toss.
It costs your members nothing
No sensors, no subscription, no extra device to charge and lose. The tracking is part of the member app your club already gives them free, so it's available to the whole membership rather than the handful who'd buy a gadget.
The club's own course, mapped properly
Shots are plotted against your real hole geometry — tees per tee set, greens, the satellite frame you set once in the course-map editor — so the map is your course, not a generic approximation.
Tap to log a shot
Club and resting position, recorded as the member walks up to the ball, from the same screen they're scoring on.
Shot map by hole
Every hole traced from the tee through each shot, with direction arrows and yardages, on satellite imagery of your course.
Club dispersion view
Filter to one club and see every shot with it as a start-to-finish vector across whichever rounds you've selected.
Round overlay
Compare several rounds at once in distinct colours, with a per-round average yardage table.
For your club
- Give every member shot tracking without a single sensor or subscription.
- Hand your pro a dispersion map of any student, on your own course.
- Turn ordinary members' rounds into the club's teaching material.
- Offer something the incumbent club systems have no answer to at all.
- Build on the course map you set up once — no extra survey required.
For your members
- Find out what you actually hit each club, not what you tell people.
- See where your misses really go, by club, across several rounds.
- Track shots with the phone you're already scoring on — nothing to buy.
- Bring real evidence to a lesson instead of trying to describe it.
- Keep a round private and it stays out of the club's and your coach's view.
How it works
- 01
Map the course once
Set the satellite frame, tee positions per tee set and greens in the course-map editor. Every shot map afterwards draws on that.
- 02
The member plays in Shots mode
Walking up to the ball, they pick the club they hit and drop the shot. The position and the distance it travelled are worked out for them.
- 03
The map builds itself
The round appears as a traced map of every hole, and the distances roll into per-club averages, spread and longest.
- 04
The coach reads it
Filter by club or hole, overlay rounds, and start the lesson from the pattern instead of hunting for it.
The Caddyio difference
Tour-style shot data, from a club membership
Shot tracking has historically meant buying hardware: sensors in the grips, a launch monitor, a separate subscription that never talks to your club. Caddyio gets a large part of the same picture from a tap on a phone that is already recording the card — and puts it in front of the club professional who can act on it, which is the part the gadgets never do.
Compare the whole platformFrequently asked
- Does shot tracking need any extra hardware?
- No. No sensors, no launch monitor, no wearable. The member logs the shot on the phone they're already scoring the round with, and the position comes from the phone's GPS.
- How accurate are the distances?
- Each shot's distance is measured from where it was struck — the previous shot's resting place, or the tee — to where it finished, using the phone's GPS. That is total distance on the ground rather than a launch monitor's carry figure, and its accuracy follows phone GPS. It is good enough to see real dispersion patterns and dependable per-club averages, and the spread is shown alongside every average so a small or scattered sample is visible rather than hidden.
- Does a member have to track every shot?
- No. Shot tracking is opt-in per round, and a member can log some shots and not others — the maps and averages simply build from whatever they record. Rounds scored normally are unaffected.
- Who can see a member's shots?
- The member, and a club professional they're linked to as a student. Members can mark any round private, which keeps it out of the coach's view entirely.
- Can you compare rounds?
- Yes. Select several rounds and they're drawn on the same map in distinct colours, with an average-yardage table that matches those colours — the direct way to see whether a change stuck.
- What does the club have to set up?
- The course map: the satellite frame, tee positions and greens, set once in the course-map editor. Everything on this page is built from that plus the shots members log.
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