Overview (Dashboard)

The Dashboard is the first screen you land on after signing in. It summarizes everything: handicap trajectory, driver numbers, last session, club gaps, strokes-gained trends, personal records, and milestones. It refreshes in real time when the tray is running.

Setup banner

If GSCaddie has never connected from your sim PC, a "Finish setup" banner runs across the top. It goes away once the first heartbeat or shot arrives. See install-and-setup if you're stuck here.

Player review card

When GSCaddie detects a new GSPro identity on your sim, a review card appears above everything else. You need to tell GSCaddie who each player is before their shots count toward your numbers. See multiple-players.

Hero strip

Four stats across the top of the content area:

Handicap index. Computed WHS-style: best 8 of your last 20 scored rounds (rounds need a course rating and slope, which come from portal sync). The 30-day delta shows whether your index has moved up or down. A hint below explains how many more scored rounds you need if it can't compute yet.
Total shots. Lifetime count of all ingested shots (across all rounds, all clubs, all players on your identity).
Driver carry. Mean carry distance (in yards) from all driver shots, with the standard deviation shown as a spread figure.
Driver top ball speed. Peak ball speed recorded on a driver across all time.

Verdict strip

A one-line read on your recent performance, synthesized from handicap trajectory and game shape. It is directional, not scored.

Last session card

The most recent round you played. For course rounds it shows: score (gross + to-par), SG total, fairway percentage, and GIR percentage. For range sessions it shows: shot count, top ball speed, and longest carry. Clicking the card takes you to that round's detail.

Handicap trajectory

A line chart plotting your WHS handicap index over time. Each point is the index as it stood on the date of a scored round. The most recent point matches the hero strip value.

Club gaps panel

A sorted list of your clubs (driver down through wedges) showing mean carry and the yard gap to the next club in the bag. A gap is flagged "tight" when it is below 12 yards and "wide" when it is above 25. Requires at least 3 shots per club to compute a mean.

Cross-reference: gap calculations and what counts as a meaningful gap are explained in data-derived-metrics.

SG trend panel

Strokes gained across your last 10 course rounds, broken into three categories: off the tee, approach, and around the green. Putting is excluded from this breakdown (GSPro auto-putts make putting SG unreliable mid-round). Each category is charted as a point series so you can see directional movement over time, not just the current average.

Cross-reference: how SG is calculated is explained in concept-strokes-gained.

Personal records panel

Six all-time bests: longest drive, top ball speed, driver club speed, longest carry, closest approach (feet from the pin), and best round (score to par). These are lifetime records across every shot GSCaddie has ingested.

Milestones strip

Running counts of birdies, eagles, albatrosses, and holes in one on course rounds. Holes in one are highlighted in a different color when your count is greater than zero.

Cross-reference: how milestones are counted (including why incomplete holes don't count) is explained in concept-milestones.

Scoring rates panel

Five rates aggregated across your loaded course rounds: greens in regulation, fairways hit, scrambling, putts per hole, and average approach proximity.

Each one shows your number next to "typ", which is what golfers at your handicap index actually average, plus a verdict chip reading ahead, on pace, or behind.

Two things worth being clear about:

"Typical" is a peer average, not a goal. If you are sitting on the number for your index, you are playing to your index, which is not a failure. That is why "behind" is amber rather than red.
The badge tells you the scope. It reads something like "8 rd · vs 11 idx": how many rounds the rates cover, and which index the comparison is against. Range and practice sessions are excluded, because their synthetic hole structure would distort every rate here. If you don't have enough scored rounds for a computed index yet, the comparison falls back to the baseline handicap set in your account.

Reference values come from published handicap benchmark studies of amateur golfers, interpolated to your index.

Streaks panel

Four streaks with current and best values: consecutive fairways hit, consecutive GIRs, consecutive no-bogey holes, and days played. Streaks reset on the next miss.

Trend alerts panel

Auto-detected movements in your shot data, flagged up (positive) or down (negative). These are statistical observations pulled from your recent shots, not coaching conclusions.

Recent sessions table

Your last 10 rounds in a compact table. Each row shows: course name, Round/Range badge, date (relative and absolute), score to par, SG total (colored by positive/negative), a 3-segment SG bar (off tee / approach / around green), fairway percentage, GIR percentage, avg putts per hole, and shot count. Practice sessions show shot count only; SG and scoring columns are blank. Click any row to open that round.

A round you have excluded from analytics still appears here (and in the Last session card) with its real numbers and an EXCLUDED badge, but it does not count toward your handicap, trajectory, streaks, trends, courses played, or any other dashboard stat. To exclude or re-include a round, open it and use Round Options.