THE PLAYER

13 findings · 8 of them unkind · 6 things the record cannot say

Derived from both halves of this repo — the shot ledger here, the course history from the map — and rewritten every time either one changes. Nothing below is a personality: every line carries the numbers that put it there and the condition that takes it off, so hitting the shots retires the sentence.

Measured range: 92–195 yd
Clubs measured: 8
Clubs in the bag: 13
Shots on file: 181
Range sessions: 7
Rounds played: 166
Courses played: 84
Mean score: 88.4
Favourite: Bethpage State Park (Black)

The read

Ranked by how much of the record is behind each line, never by how bad it sounds. Nothing here is compared to a golfer who is not you — no tour averages, no handicap model, because a benchmark without a source is exactly the kind of claim this repo refuses to print.

01
Nothing on this site was measured on a golf course. The played record and the measured record share no shots at all.
both · high
why
8 clubs measured, from the 5 Iron down to the Sand Wedge, over 181 trusted shots — every one of them hit off a mat in front of a monitor. 166 rounds played across 84 facilities, none of which put a single shot in this ledger.
gone when
Any on-course shot data in the ledger — a round imported from the R50's on-course mode, or a hand-entered card with clubs.
02
There is no measured tee game. Every club with numbers is a club you reach for after the shot that decided where you were standing.
both · high
why
181 trusted shots across 7 sessions, and only 1 with a driver, wood, hybrid or long iron (Driver) — under the 15 a club needs to be drawn. The longest club measured is the 5 Iron, 195 yd, against 166 rounds played.
gone when
Any tee club drawn on the bag page — 15+ usable shots with it.
03
Over 18 holes the record averages 88.4, weighted by how often each course was played.
courses · high
why
79 layouts with comparable 18-hole averages across 166 rounds. Best average 76.7 at Rancho Park Golf Club, worst 102.0 at Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort. 14 layouts held out as short or unscored rounds.
gone when
A new snapshot of the map's course history with a different mean.
04
The bag is not evenly spaced: there are distances it cannot cover and distances it covers twice.
range · high
why
Worst gap 31.1 yd between 5 Iron and 6 Iron · 3 overlapping pairs under 8 yd apart.
gone when
No gap flagged as a hole, an inversion or an overlap on the bag page.
05
This is a collector's record, not a member's: most courses were played once and never again.
courses · high
why
68 of 93 layouts played exactly once (73%). Most played: Rancho Park Golf Club at 10 rounds.
gone when
A course history where under half the layouts are one-and-done.
06
The miss is two-way. Some clubs sit right of the target line by their median and others sit left, which is a different problem from one bias you could aim off.
range · high
why
3 of 8 drawn clubs miss right by their median (worst: 5 Iron, 17.6 yd right), 2 miss left (worst: Gap Wedge, 8.4 yd left).
gone when
Every drawn club's median offline inside ±5 yd, or all of them on the same side.
07
Courses are rated for fun ahead of conditioning.
courses · medium
why
Median fun 85.6, median conditioning 81.1, across 93 rated layouts.
gone when
Median fun and conditioning ratings within a point of each other.
08
21 practice tasks are open, and the top one is aimed at the biggest blind spot above.
range · high
why
First on the list: The 3 Hybrid has never been measured — Callaway UW is in the bag at 19° and has not one shot on file across 7 sessions. Both gaps beside it are guesses about a club nobody has hit at a monitor.
gone when
An empty practice list.
09
4 of 8 drawn clubs spray wider than a 30-yard fairway at their own median carry.
range · high
why
Worst is the 5 Iron: eight in ten of its shots land inside a 40 yd corridor at 195 yd. A good fairway is 30 yd wide.
gone when
Every drawn club's 80% aim band under 30 yd wide at its median carry.
10
Part of the bag has never been to a monitor. The chart is not a picture of what you carry, it is a picture of what you happened to hit.
range · high
why
13 clubs in the bag, 9 with any shots on file. Never recorded: 3 Hybrid, 3 Iron, 4 Iron, Lob Wedge. A further 1 — Driver (0 usable of 1) — sits under the threshold to be drawn.
gone when
Every club in data/bag.json with at least one shot in the ledger.
11
Some clubs are a different club depending on the day. Their session medians move by more than the gaps between neighbouring clubs.
range · medium
why
4 drawn clubs drift more than 10 yd between sessions. Worst: Pitching Wedge, 16.8 yd between its session medians over 3 sessions.
gone when
Every drawn club's session spread under 10 yd.
12
29% of logged swings do not count toward any number on this site.
range · high
why
74 of 255 shots excluded — warmup 49, auto-flagged 23, possible-partial 2. Warmup and partials are deliberate exclusions, not bad swings.
gone when
Under 20% of logged shots excluded.
13
Two clubs in the bag are built to the same loft. Which of them goes further is a question about the heads, and nothing on file answers it.
range · medium
why
3 Hybrid and 3 Iron are both 19°. Different head types — wood against iron — so this is not a duplicate club, but it is not a gap either, and the ledger has never had both on the same day.
gone when
Both clubs measured, or one of them re-lofted. 3 Hybrid and 3 Iron carrying more than 8 yd apart settles it.

The roast

The same findings, unsoftened. Every one of them restates its own evidence and nothing more — a roast that needs a fact you do not have is just an insult.

166 rounds. 181 measured shots. The two sets do not intersect: not one number on this site came from a golf course.
8 clubs measured, from the 5 Iron down to the Sand Wedge, over 181 trusted shots — every one of them hit off a mat in front of a monitor. 166 rounds played across 84 facilities, none of which put a single shot in this ledger.
166 rounds played, 1 measured swing with anything that starts a hole. This is a very thorough study of the second shot.
181 trusted shots across 7 sessions, and only 1 with a driver, wood, hybrid or long iron (Driver) — under the 15 a club needs to be drawn. The longest club measured is the 5 Iron, 195 yd, against 166 rounds played.
3 pairs of clubs land within 8 yd of each other — 5 clubs doing the work of 3 — and none of them covers the 31 yd hole between the 5 Iron and the 6 Iron.
Worst gap 31.1 yd between 5 Iron and 6 Iron · 3 overlapping pairs under 8 yd apart.
73% of the courses in this record got exactly one chance to make an impression, which is also how many chances they got to be learned.
68 of 93 layouts played exactly once (73%). Most played: Rancho Park Golf Club at 10 rounds.
The 5 Iron goes right and the Gap Wedge goes left, so aiming off fixes exactly half your bag and breaks the other half.
3 of 8 drawn clubs miss right by their median (worst: 5 Iron, 17.6 yd right), 2 miss left (worst: Gap Wedge, 8.4 yd left).
Eight in ten 5 Irons finish inside 40 yd of each other. That is not a target, that is a postcode.
Worst is the 5 Iron: eight in ten of its shots land inside a 40 yd corridor at 195 yd. A good fairway is 30 yd wide.
You own 13 clubs and have measured 9. The Lob Wedge is carried around every round as a decoration.
13 clubs in the bag, 9 with any shots on file. Never recorded: 3 Hybrid, 3 Iron, 4 Iron, Lob Wedge. A further 1 — Driver (0 usable of 1) — sits under the threshold to be drawn.
Your Pitching Wedge has a 17 yd opinion about what day of the week it is. A yardage book cannot help with that.
4 drawn clubs drift more than 10 yd between sessions. Worst: Pitching Wedge, 16.8 yd between its session medians over 3 sessions.

What the record cannot say

The half most profiles leave out. These are not gaps in the analysis, they are gaps in the data — listed so that silence is never mistaken for a finding.

How much of the score is the short game?
why not
A range export has no putts, no chips and no bunker shots. On any ordinary scorecard those are around half the strokes, and none of them are here.
needs
Shot-level on-course data, or a hand-kept putts-and-ups card.
What happens from a real lie?
why not
Every measured shot was hit off a mat to a flat range with a monitor watching. Nothing in the ledger has been hit from rough, sand, a slope or under pressure.
needs
On-course tracking, which the R50 does not export.
How much of each number is the weather?
why not
The R50 records environmentals per session, not per shot, and nothing here is altitude-, temperature- or wind-adjusted. A summer session at sea level and a cold one are averaged together as if they were the same day.
needs
Per-shot environmentals, or enough sessions to model the correction.
Are the lofts on this page the lofts in the bag?
why not
13 clubs carry a loft and 0 of them have been verified. Every number is what the club left the factory as: the driver's sleeve is adjustable and its setting has never been read, irons bend a degree in a car boot, and a wedge is ground to order. Any finding below that compares degrees is comparing spec sheets, not clubs.
needs
One session on a loft-and-lie gauge, then `verified: true` in data/bag.json.
Is the golf getting better?
why not
The course snapshot carries an average per layout, not a round-by-round history with dates, so nothing here can be plotted against time or against a practice session.
needs
Round-level scores with dates — the Grint HAR extractor in the parent repo's NEXT.md.
Is a score of 88 good on this course?
why not
The snapshot has no par, no yardage and no tee for any layout, so every average is compared against every other average as though all 18-hole golf were equal.
needs
Par and rating/slope per layout, which The Grint has and the paste did not carry.

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Range: 255 shots over 7 Garmin R50 sessions, 2026-07-02 to 2026-08-03
Courses: 166 rounds over 93 layouts, from The Grint, captured 2026-08-01

The same profile is written to PROFILE.md by pnpm profile, so every change to the golfer is a commit rather than a page that quietly reads differently than it did last month.

THE PLAYER

The read

Nothing on this site was measured on a golf course. The played record and the measured record share no shots at all.

There is no measured tee game. Every club with numbers is a club you reach for after the shot that decided where you were standing.

Over 18 holes the record averages 88.4, weighted by how often each course was played.

The bag is not evenly spaced: there are distances it cannot cover and distances it covers twice.

This is a collector's record, not a member's: most courses were played once and never again.

The miss is two-way. Some clubs sit right of the target line by their median and others sit left, which is a different problem from one bias you could aim off.

Courses are rated for fun ahead of conditioning.

21 practice tasks are open, and the top one is aimed at the biggest blind spot above.

4 of 8 drawn clubs spray wider than a 30-yard fairway at their own median carry.

Part of the bag has never been to a monitor. The chart is not a picture of what you carry, it is a picture of what you happened to hit.

Some clubs are a different club depending on the day. Their session medians move by more than the gaps between neighbouring clubs.

29% of logged swings do not count toward any number on this site.

Two clubs in the bag are built to the same loft. Which of them goes further is a question about the heads, and nothing on file answers it.

The roast

What the record cannot say

How much of the score is the short game?

What happens from a real lie?

How much of each number is the weather?

Are the lofts on this page the lofts in the bag?

Is the golf getting better?

Is a score of 88 good on this course?

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