I kept turning up to the range with no real plan and leaving with no real idea whether I'd actually improved. So I built something to fix that.
Anyone who has read much of what I write about golf will know that I've become increasingly obsessed with turning practice into something measurable — strokes gained, TrackMan data, structured drills, personal bests. But for a long time, all of that lived in scattered notes, spreadsheets and half-remembered numbers from three weeks ago. I'd know I'd improved my wedge game because it felt better. I couldn't have told you by how much, or from where.
That gap between feeling and evidence is what led to MyGolfPractice.
// What I built
MyGolfPractice
Practice. Log. Repeat.
The Problem I Was Actually Solving
It wasn't a lack of drills. Between coaching sessions with Ryan, Steve and Chris, I had no shortage of things to work on. The problem was structure and memory. I'd do a chipping challenge one week, get a good result, and then have no record of it the next time I did the same drill. Was I better? Worse? I genuinely didn't know.
I wanted somewhere to log a session in seconds, see my previous results and personal bests for that exact drill immediately, and build a picture over time of where my game was actually moving — not where I assumed it was moving based on how one range session felt.
The goal wasn't to practise more. It was to know, precisely, whether the practice was working.
What It Actually Does
MyGolfPractice has grown well beyond the original idea of a simple log. The core of it is still exactly that — pick a drill, tap in a score, add a note — but it now sits inside a much bigger picture of practice and performance.
Log & Drills
A library of recommended drills to add, or build your own with a category, scoring style and target — logged in seconds with a built-in practice timer.
Bests & Skill Areas
Personal bests per drill, plus ball speed, clubhead speed, handicap and scoring records — each with a trend line and an optional target.
Plans
Build your own practice plans, have a coach assign one directly, or generate one with AI that factors in your recent form per category before you review and save it.
Coach connection
Invite a coach to see your log and assign you drills directly — or accept a request if a player has invited you as theirs.
Game Plan mode
Your yardage book, wedge matrix, course notes and a club recommendation built from your own carry data and today's wind — not a generic rule of thumb.
Leaderboards
Opt in per drill to see how you compare to others doing the same recommended drill. Nothing is shared unless you choose to.
Getting the Scoring Right Was the Hard Part
Early on, I realised that "X out of N" wasn't going to cover it. My own practice sessions include streak-based drills — how many putts in a row from three feet — and points-based drills, like a chipping challenge worth more for a hole-out than for finishing merely inside fifteen feet. If the app could only handle one scoring format, it wasn't going to reflect how I, or any coach, actually structures practice.
// The four scoring formats a drill can use
Out of N
e.g. 7 out of 10 chips inside a 10ft circle
Streak (consecutive)
e.g. longest run of putts in a row from six feet
Points
e.g. +1 inside 15ft, +2 hole-out, −1 outside the circle
Golf score
e.g. a 3-ball scramble round, where lowest is best
Getting that right meant every drill I actually run on the range — wedge comparisons, chipping challenges, lag-putting streaks, the three-foot and six-foot compass — could be logged properly, with a personal best that means something.
Skill Areas, Not Just Raw Scores
One thing I wanted to avoid was a tool that just showed a wall of numbers. A single score from a drill doesn't tell you much on its own — the useful question is whether recent form has actually dipped, and where.
Skill Areas answers that by looking at how close your last five sessions per drill are to your own personal best, averaged per category. It's not raw skill level — it's a signal for where recent form has slipped, which is a very different, more actionable thing. Alongside it sits an estimated skill level based on published make-percentage data for putts from a known distance, and a completely separate mental game and practice habits check-in — a self-rating that's kept apart from the performance numbers on purpose, because a 1-to-10 feeling and a measured score aren't the same kind of information.
Game Plan Mode
The part of the app I now use most on an actual golf course isn't a drill at all. Game Plan mode pulls together your yardage book — carry distance for every club, tap to log a fresh reading — a gap analysis that flags where the distance between two consecutive clubs is unusually large or unusually tight, and a wedge matrix recording carry distance per wedge at different swing lengths.
// What Game Plan mode pulls together
None of it is a generic rule of thumb. The club adjustment for wind uses your own yardage book, not an assumed "add one club into the wind" heuristic — because everyone's dispersion and ball flight is different.
Coaches Were Always Part of the Plan
From early on, I wanted this to work for the coaching relationship, not just for solo practice. A coach can be invited to see a player's log and assign drills directly — which turns a lesson from a one-off event into something with a thread running through it between sessions.
That closes a gap I'd felt myself — turning up to a lesson and trying to remember, roughly, how the homework had gone.
Where It Is Now
MyGolfPractice is live and being used by real testers — coaches and players — rather than sitting as a finished, polished, mass-market product. The rollout has been deliberately quiet: sharing it with people I know rather than pushing for a public go-live, so I can keep fixing the things that only show up when real people use it in ways I didn't anticipate.
It supports passkey sign-in, has a feedback button that goes straight to me, and is currently on version 1.27 — which tells you how much has changed since the first version that could barely log a score and show you yesterday's number back.
// Why this matters to me
Everything I've written about my own game over the past year — the strokes gained numbers, the TrackMan sessions, the practice games, the routines — depends on being able to see what actually happened, not what I remember happening.
Building MyGolfPractice was really just an extension of that same philosophy. If purposeful practice is the thing that actually moves a handicap, then the tool that logs it properly isn't a nice-to-have. It's the difference between guessing you've improved and knowing it.
That's still the whole idea. Practice. Log. Repeat.