Insights
Insights answers three questions in order: what is wrong with your game, what to do about it, and how to get to each problem. It is one ranked list of issues on the left, and the selected issue's detail on the right.
The two tiers
The page knows about your game in two different ways, and it says which is which rather than mixing them:
Costing you strokes — measured from your scorecards, per round. These carry a real strokes-per-round figure and a bar showing how they compare to each other. A category has to be costing you at least 0.3 strokes a round to appear at all; anything smaller is ordinary round-to-round variance.
What your swing is doing — detected from club delivery and from where your shots finish. These carry no stroke cost and no bar, because we genuinely cannot price a slice in strokes. They show sample evidence instead: how many shots, and the number that fired the check. They sit below the measured list, because a problem we can price outranks one we can only describe.
If you have no course rounds, the measured tier says so and tells you what unlocks it, rather than showing an empty heading.
The page opens on the first swing pattern, not the top of the measured list. Ranking and opening screen are answering different questions: a measured leak is the more important number, but it is a scorecard fact with no swing in it, while a swing pattern arrives with a drill you can start hitting in the next range session. The measured list still sits on top, one click away.
Reading an issue
Selecting anything in the list fills the right pane:
- The headline carries the stroke cost for a measured issue, or the club and shot count for a detected one.
- What's happening is the evidence: the metric that fired, the shot count, the clubs involved, or the short/long split on approaches.
- The fix is the drill, with how it works, the feel, what to avoid, and any videos. Videos are labelled and bordered so they're obviously videos.
- Evidence shows your ball-flight breakdown for the club involved, on the pattern it is actually evidence for.
- How this is calculated collapses the engine's thresholds and caveats out of the way until you want them.
Practicing an issue
Start practicing this opens a focus on the issue you are looking at: GSCaddie snaps your current number as a baseline and tracks it while you hit, against the pass mark of the drill on screen. If you cycled to a different drill first, that is the one it starts. Focus mutations are desktop-app only.
The button appears on every issue with a number the tracker can follow on each shot. Where it can't, the pane says which of the two reasons applies rather than leaving a silent gap: the pattern is defined by club delivery and has no live number behind it, or it is trackable in principle but has nothing to track right now, because your recent shots with that club already sit inside the target or there are too few of them. The drill is still shown either way.
Once a focus is running, selecting that issue shows the focus card instead: session history, your live in-the-zone percentage, and the options to continue, start over, cancel, or mark it complete. Completed focuses move to the wins feed at the bottom.
Working well
The rail ends with a collapsed count of the things your swing does well. It's there for reinforcement without competing with the problems for attention.
What you won't find here any more
Earlier versions of this screen showed a four-tile summary strip, a separate focus card, a club tab strip, a side rail holding shape and detection rules, and a data-notes block. Those were nine stacked blocks that never said which one to read first. Everything worth keeping moved onto the issue it belongs to.
Approach miss patterns
Everything else on this screen reads your club delivery: what the club was doing at impact. This section reads the outcome instead: where your approach shots actually finished relative to the pin. They are different questions. You can deliver the club well and still miss every green short, because your yardages are set from your best strikes rather than your typical ones.
For each club with at least 10 measured approaches, it reports how often you finish short, long, left, and right, plus your average proximity. A pattern is called out when one direction accounts for at least 45% of that club's approaches AND beats its opposite by half again. That second condition matters: misses spread evenly both ways are a dispersion problem, not a bias, and prescribing "you miss short" for it would be wrong.
Shots finishing within 5 yards of the pin on an axis are not counted as a miss on that axis.
What it needs
This only works on course rounds. It measures against the pin position, which is recovered from the shots played to each hole, so a hole needs at least three shots that recorded both a resting position and a distance to the pin. Roughly two thirds of holes qualify. Range sessions never do.
When left and right stay hidden
Short and long are measured along the line from your ball to the pin, which needs no assumption about how the sim orients its coordinates. Left and right do. Rather than guess, GSCaddie works the orientation out from your own shots, comparing against your recorded offline distance and falling back to your start-line angle. If neither is clear enough, left and right are hidden and only short and long report.
If your launch monitor doesn't report clubface angle
The face-open and face-closed checks are skipped, and the reason appears under "How this is calculated". Path, attack angle, ball flight and strike quality all detect normally on ball data alone.