Everything published so far
Numbered in the order it was written. The series builds, so the early ones are the place to start.
- How to Film Your Golf Swing So AI Can Actually Read It 1,985 words Most amateur swing videos fail before analysis begins; four fixable capture faults account for nearly every rejected or mis-tracked clip.
- Face-On and Down-the-Line: The Only Two Angles You Need 1,979 words Argues that exact camera placement relative to hands and target line matters more than camera quality, with pacing-out instructions for both angles.
- Four Swing Analysis Apps, One Identical Swing: What They Each Said 1,495 words Feeding one 7-iron swing to four apps produces four different diagnoses, which tells you what to trust and what is guesswork.
- What a Budget Launch Monitor Measures and What It Quietly Estimates 1,429 words Sub-£500 units measure two or three things directly and model the rest; knowing which is which stops you chasing invented numbers.
- Strokes Gained for Amateurs: What It Means Off 14, Not Off Scratch 1,587 words Strokes gained is only useful once the baseline is a golfer like you; comparing to tour benchmarks makes every part of your game look broken.
- Turning One Swing Fault Into a Four-Week Practice Block 1,666 words An AI report lists eight faults; a usable plan attacks one, with a weekly progression and a measurable exit test.
- What an AI Caddie Can Decide For You, and What It Can't 1,603 words Caddie apps are good at yardage and dispersion maths and bad at lie, nerves and your ability to hit the shot they suggest.
- Frame Rate for Swing Video: Is 60fps Really Not Enough? 1,557 words Tests where 60fps genuinely loses impact detail and where 240fps adds nothing but file size and worse low-light footage.
- Do Swing Apps Agree With Each Other? Measuring the Same Angles Twice 1,714 words Repeat-measurement testing shows which app outputs are stable enough to track over months and which drift clip to clip.
- Carry vs Total: Why Your Gapping Chart Is Probably Wrong 1,591 words Club golfers build gapping from total distance on firm range ground, which is why approach shots come up short on soft UK fairways.
- Filming Your Swing Indoors Without Ruining the Footage 1,976 words Indoor lighting, not the camera, is what breaks body tracking; a two-lamp arrangement and shutter settings fix most garage and net setups.
- Blocked or Random? How to Structure the Session AI Gave You 1,585 words AI plans default to blocked repetition, which builds range competence that vanishes on the course; a blocked-then-random split is the fix.
- How Many Rounds Before Your Strokes Gained Data Means Anything 1,506 words Putting and short game stabilise in far fewer rounds than driving; acting on five rounds of tee data is how golfers change the wrong thing.
- iPhone or Android for Swing Capture and Analysis? 1,714 words Slow-motion capture quality and on-device AI features differ sharply by platform, and several apps are meaningfully worse on one of them.
- Driver Spin Rate and What It Means on a Wet UK Course 1,648 words The low-spin numbers chased online assume firm summer ground; UK club golfers usually need more spin, not less, to hold carry.
- Where Caddie Apps Get Your Club Yardages, and Where They Lie 1,553 words Apps build yardages from your best strikes or from range data, producing recommendations one club short of what you actually average.
- Tripod Height: Why Chest Height Distorts Every Angle You Measure 1,867 words Hip-height framing is the single change that makes shaft plane and spine angle measurements comparable across sessions.
- A UK Winter Practice Block Built From Your Autumn Footage 1,574 words Off-season is the only window long enough for a genuine swing change; October footage should set the one thing you work on until March.
- Markerless 3D on a Phone: Useful or Marketing? 1,882 words Single-camera 3D reconstruction is credible for gross rotation and unreliable for the fine numbers apps present most confidently.
- Why Strokes Gained Putting Flatters and Fools Club Golfers 1,704 words Putting SG rewards proximity from approach play, so a good putting number often just means you were hitting it close.
- Radar or Camera Indoors? Launch Monitor Accuracy in a Garage 1,682 words Radar units need flight distance they never get indoors; camera-based units need lighting most garages lack, and each fails differently.
- Getting Proper Slow Motion Out of the Phone You Already Own 1,612 words Step-by-step capture settings per phone generation, including the shutter and exposure locks that stop impact blurring.
- Practising With a Launch Monitor Instead of Just Watching Numbers 1,505 words Numbers become practice only when you set a target window per shot and score hits, rather than reading the screen after each ball.
- Wind and Elevation: How Much of the AI Caddie's Adjustment Is Real? 1,644 words Apps take wind from regional forecasts, not the tee you're standing on, so treat their adjustment as a ceiling rather than an instruction.
- The Real Annual Cost of Your Golf App Stack 1,469 words Adds up swing app, tracking app and caddie subscriptions against a term of lessons, and names which single subscription earns its keep.
- The Pre-Filming Checklist to Run Before Every Swing Video 1,782 words A repeatable eight-item checklist is what makes footage comparable month to month, which is the whole point of filming at all.
- Approach Play Is Where Your Handicap Actually Lives 1,716 words For 6 to 24 handicaps, approach shots swing more strokes than driving and putting combined, which should decide how practice time is split.