Focus

Focus is GSCaddie's "one thing to work on" mechanic. Instead of putting every fault in front of you at once, it picks one club, one ball-data number, and hands you a structured practice session: a drill to run through, a live metric to chase, and a goal to aim for. It is intentionally narrow. Be clear-eyed about what it does and does not do.

How a session works

A focus ties together a detected fault, a drill, and a numeric goal. Once you have an active focus, Insights shows a Begin practice round prompt. Tap it, and you land on the Live screen. Start a range or practice session in GSPro, and once shots are landing, tap Begin Focus to start tracking your reps.

When you are done, tap End session. The session also finalizes automatically when the round ends in GSPro.

What the Live screen shows during a session

While you are tracking, the Live screen shows:

Drill steps. How the drill works, the feel to aim for, and what to avoid. These stay visible throughout the session so you can reference them between swings without leaving the screen.
In the zone percentage. The share of your session's shots that land inside the good band for your focus metric, updated after every shot. Below the percentage is the plain count so you can see exactly how many shots are in and out, and how many more you need.

The percentage covers your current session only. Shots from earlier sessions or from before you started the focus do not carry over.

After a session

Back in Insights, the Focus card shows your session history: each session's date, in-the-zone percentage, and shot count. Three actions are available:

Continue. Start another session on the same focus.
Start over. Clear your session history and take a fresh run at the same fault.
Start a new focus. Dismiss this focus and pick a different one.

Hitting the goal

The goal comes from the drill you started with: its pass mark sets both the number of shots the session has to run and the share of them that must land in the zone. A typical one is 15 shots with 70% in the zone. Drills with no pass mark, and focuses started before pass marks existed, fall back to 8 shots at 70%.

Both numbers matter. A perfect run of six shots is not a pass, because six shots do not prove anything. The live percentage still shows from your eighth shot on, so you can see where you stand well before you get there.

When a session clears both, a Mark focus complete button appears. Tapping it logs the focus as a win in your wins feed and frees you up to pick a new one. You are not required to mark it complete right away; you can keep practicing to confirm the change is sticking before declaring victory.

What it can track

Only faults whose defining number can be measured from ball data alone can become a focus. Path, attack angle, and face faults are deliberately excluded, because measuring progress on them would need club delivery data on every shot, which only a Portal sync provides.

The trackable faults and the number each one watches:

Slice or hook tendency, tracked by your shot's curve (spin axis). See ball and launch data.
Pull or push tendency, tracked by your start line. See ball and launch data.
High driver spin, or low iron or wedge spin, tracked by your spin rate. See ball and launch data.
Carry dispersion or wedge dispersion, tracked by your distance control (how tightly your carries cluster). See distance and flight.
Inconsistent strike, and its fat and thin variants, also tracked by distance control. There is no live "mishit rate", but a mishit is a short strike by definition, so carry spread is the number that moves when the pattern goes away.

Weak compression is the one strike fault that cannot become a focus. Its defining number is smash factor, which needs club speed, so it sits with the club-delivery faults above.

The exact good band for your focus is shown on the card. For curve and start line it is a tight window centered on straight, for spin it is a sensible window for that club, and for distance control it is landing within a few yards of your usual number for that club.

How a focus is chosen

You choose it. Every issue on the Insights screen that can be tracked from ball data offers Start practicing this, so the focus is whichever pattern you were looking at when you pressed it. The ranked list is the recommendation: the page opens on the top swing pattern, and issues are ordered worst-first.

Issues that cannot become a focus say so in place of the button, rather than leaving a silent gap. Two reasons appear: the pattern is defined by club delivery and has no live number to chase, or it is trackable in principle but has nothing to track right now, because your recent shots with that club are already inside the target or there are too few of them.

GSCaddie never switches your focus for you, and only one runs at a time.

It is a desktop-app feature

Starting a focus, running sessions, and marking it done all save to your account, and those writes only happen from the GSCaddie desktop app. The browser dashboard is a read-only viewer. The Focus card still renders in a browser, with your proposal and session history, but the action buttons are replaced with a short "do it in the app" note. This is a desktop-app restriction, not a paywall.

One focus at a time

Each player has at most one active focus. Achieved and dismissed focuses are kept as history. In a round with more than one player on the same sim, a focus belongs to the player who set it. Only that player's shots count toward a session's percentage, so a second player using the same club never moves your number.

Honest scope

Focus is thin by design, and worth understanding plainly:

It tracks exactly one ball-data number for one club at a time.
Only the ball-data faults above can drive it. A path, face, or attack-angle problem can be your biggest issue and still never become a focus.
Session history and wins are the only things it feeds. It is a practice nudge, not a full coaching plan.

For where it sits on screen, see the Insights screen. For how faults are detected, see fault detection. For the drills it surfaces, see drills.