CaddieLAB GolfApproach shots are costing you the most.
−3.7 strokes a round against a scratch golfer, mostly from 125 to 175 yards.
On the range
Most range sessions are a bucket of balls and a guess.
Yours come with the numbers.
Swing Lab in Your Pocket
Prop your phone up. Hit one.
CaddieLab finds you and the club in every frame. No sensors, nothing to wear. It starts measuring before you move.
Forward bend43°Tour 30–40° Advanced
Stance width1.4 : 1Tour 1.05–1.3 Advanced
Shaft lean1°Tour 2.5–6° Advanced
Plus 2 more measured here: ball position, hands under the shoulders.
At the top.
How far you turned, and how much of that turn your hips gave away.
Shoulder turn94°Tour 100–121° Advanced
Hip turn42°Tour 40–50° Tour level
X-factor52°Tour 52–72° Tour level
Plus 6 more measured here: lead arm, hand height, shaft at the top, head movement, the takeaway.
On the way down.
A third of a second. What starts it, how long the swing takes, and how much angle you keep between your lead arm and the shaft.
Lower body leads by80 msTour 40 ms or more Tour level
Swing time0.95 sTour 0.9–1.1 s Tour level
Lag angle at P5115°Tour 102° or less Minor fault
Plus 8 more measured here: early extension, over the top, wrist angle, tempo, what fires first.
At impact.
Read on the frame the ball leaves, from the camera that can actually see it.
Shaft lean1°Tour 6–14° Minor fault
Hips open Fix first2°Tour 35° or more Major fault
Club speed75 mphMeasured from the video
Plus 5 more measured here: posture, side bend, head position, hips against shoulders.
Then one thing to work on. Not nine.
Up to 37 checks, graded against what good players do. The report leads with the one that matters most, and hands you the drill for it.
Hips open at impact Fix first2°Tour 35° or more Major fault
The drill
Impact Fix Drill
Set up, then without swinging push your hands ahead, open your hips to the target and press onto your lead foot. Hold it for three seconds. Now hit one, and try to pass through that exact position.
Feel: your hips have already opened and your hands win the race back to the ball.
Scroll to swing
You remember the one great shot. The data remembers all of them.
Tour 35° or more
Your typical swing: 1°
0°10°20°30°40°
Solid or better
Your typical swing: 1.4 in
0 in1 in2 in3 in
44 of 50 right of the target.
Wedges Irons Hybrid Driver
The Lab Report.
Not everyone else’s generic checklist.
Other apps grade one video against the same checklist they give everyone. The Lab Report is built from your session: every swing measured from two cameras, every reading shown on your own video next to the tour window, and the fault you make most often put first.
Pair a launch monitor and the ball’s numbers sit beside the swing that made them.
Page 9 · The release
Practice that translates to the course.
Your hips are closed at impact. Every time.
2° open on 15 of 15 swings. Tour players are past 35°.
Three sessions, 35 minutes each.
- Impact Fix Drill 10 rehearsals, 10 balls
- 8-iron to a target 20 balls at 150 yards
- Film three and check the hips again
Guided sessions walk you through it on the range, one drill at a time.
