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Pick a part of the game — the ranked leaks, then every question card, same numbers as the app.

[C8] What shows up in your bogeys

Bogey holesPar holes
A chip that leaves 10+ ft40%9%
A penalty28%2%
Approach missed short45%20%
A 3-putt25%0%
Short-sided20%13%
A shape fault somewhere68%58%

Top bogey drivers shown. Only 10% of your bogeys had two mistakes — they're one-mistake holes. Your shape faults are on par holes almost as often as bogey holes — they're the background everywhere, and the rows above are what turns one into a bogey.

WHY

The single biggest difference between your pars and your bogeys: a chip that leaves 10+ ft — it shows up 4× more often on bogey holes than par holes.

[C7] Your most expensive bogey stories

Over draw off the tee → green hit → 3-putt — comebacker missed2 holes · 2.0 strokes
Green hit → 3-putt — comebacker missed2 holes · 2.0 strokes
Over draw off the tee into the trees → Penalty off the tee2 holes · 1.8 strokes

Repeated stories only, ranked by what they cost — not by how often they happen.

[C11] Par 3s, 4s and 5s

ParHolesAvg scoreVs parPutts
3303.50+0.501.87
4774.18+0.181.77
5285.00+0.001.71
WHY

Par 3s are where the strokes go: +0.50 a hole against +0.00 on par 5s. That's 2.0 strokes a round of difference across four of them.

[C12] Good days vs bad days

AreaTypicalBad dayGood dayDrop
Putting+0.4-3.6+1.14.1
Approach-3.4-5.1-1.71.7
Around the green+1.3-0.2+1.51.4
Off the tee-0.9-1.9-0.21.0
TOTAL-4.7-8.8-0.44.0

5 full 18-hole rounds — 9s are never scaled up. One round in ten is at or below the bad-day number.

WHY

Putting is what turns a normal round into a blow-up: your typical putting round is +0.4, your bad one is -3.6 — a 4.1-stroke collapse. Off the tee barely wobbles (1.0).

[C9] What a mishit costs

WhereYou flaggedCost a shot
Approach11+0.48
Off the tee9+0.27

Only shots YOU flagged as mishits count — never inferred.

WHY

A flagged mishit approach costs you 0.48 strokes against your own clean average — and you've flagged 11 of them.

[C10] What a bad decision costs

WhereYou flaggedCost a shot
Approach8+0.22

Only decisions YOU flagged count — never inferred.

WHY

When you call your own decision bad approach, it costs 0.22 strokes vs your clean average. The swing wasn't the problem — the pick was.