Before you ask the caddie.

Make it match the 13 or 14 clubs you actually carry — not the clubs you wish you hit. If a club isn't in the bag, the caddie will never call it, so leave out anything that's not really in play this season.

Carry — how far the ball flies in the air, not where it stops after rolling out. This is a common setup mistake and it throws off every recommendation downstream, since the caddie plans around where the ball lands.

Calibrate at the range if you can — hit about five balls with each club and the app averages them into a real number, along with your shape and bias. A guessed number versus a range-calibrated number is the difference between honest advice and a bag full of guesses.

Two clubs sitting on the same distance usually means one of them is wrong. For example, a 35-yard gap between two wedges likely means you're guessing on half your approach shots. Fix the outlier and the gap should resolve to something realistic.

It's where you tell the app your typical mishit shape and direction for that club. This is what lets the caddie say things like "your miss is left, so favor the right half" — it's tendency data, not a judgment on your swing.

It lets you mark the club you trust most under pressure. The caddie leans on that club more heavily in tight situations — late in a good round, a tough lie, anywhere confidence matters as much as the number.

These are confidence levels, not settings you change manually. A club starts as Learning and moves toward dialed as real evidence builds from rounds and warm-ups. Each club card shows exactly where its current number came from (assessment, rounds, warm-ups, or a manual edit), so you always know what the caddie is working off of.

Use "Re-map this club" on that club's card. This resets its number without wiping your history, and is also the right move after a new shaft, a re-fit, or if a club's distance has clearly drifted from reality on its chart.

Yes — re-run the full bag through Assessment if several distances have shifted at once (a swing change, an off-season layoff), rather than re-mapping each club individually.

No — distances only update from confirmed evidence (rounds, warm-ups) or your own manual edits. Nothing is silently guessed.

It means the app is actively tracking you. The app goes live on its own as you start moving and auto-detects which hole you're on — you don't need to manually confirm the hole unless something looks wrong.

Cart-path routing and tree cover are the most common causes — they can shift where GPS thinks your ball is. Long-press the marker and drag it to your ball's real position; the plan rebuilds immediately from the corrected spot. This is the direct fix, not a bug to report.

Confirm location permission is set to "Always" (this is required, and it's called out before your first tee shot). Then toggle airplane mode on and off to force a GPS refresh. If it persists, restarting the app usually resolves it.

GPS positioning doesn't rely on a cell connection, so yardages and hole detection keep working in low-signal areas. Features that reach the caddie's servers — like asking a free-text question mid-hole — may be delayed until signal returns; the core round tracking continues either way.

No — your data is saved continuously. Reopen the app and your in-progress round will be there; you shouldn't need to re-enter anything you'd already logged.

Continuous GPS is more battery-intensive than static scorecard apps. Start your round with a full charge, or enable Battery Saver Mode in Settings, which reduces GPS polling frequency with a small accuracy tradeoff.

You can, but low-power mode throttles background GPS refresh on most phones, which can cause delayed or "stuck" yardages. We don't recommend it for full rounds.

Direct sun plus continuous GPS can cause thermal throttling, which interrupts location services. Keep your phone in a pocket or bag between shots rather than in direct sun on your cart.

Yes. The Apple Watch companion mirrors your live round from your paired iPhone — distance to the green, the caddie's club recommendation, and hazard alerts, glanceable from your wrist. Start the round on your iPhone and the watch surfaces it automatically; there's no separate sign-in.

Start the round before your first tee shot — pick the course, your real tees, and nine or 18 holes. A full charge and location set to "Always" are both recommended going in.

It's an optional pre-round warm-up (15, 30, or 45 minutes) where every number you hit gets banked and read on the first tee — warm up with a 175-yard driver that day and the caddie plans around that number. If you're short on time, tap "No time — to the tee." The round works fine either way; the Ritual just makes the first few holes smarter.

A quick summary — trouble-hole plans, anything carrying over from your warm-up, and your goal for the day. It takes about 30 seconds to glance at before your first swing.

Quick shot confirmations or club corrections. Answering them (rather than dismissing them) is what keeps your shot trail — and therefore your distance data — accurate.

You can tell it things it can't see — "ball's above my feet," "I have to carry the water" — and it re-plans around that. You can also ask it anything in plain English, or tap a quick question chip (what club, where to miss, wind, am I on pace), and it explains its reasoning using your own numbers.

No — good overrides get credited, not lectured. If your choice works out, it's tracked positively, not as an error.

No, greens need a quick manual step: drag the pin to where it was actually cut, drag your ball marker to where your first putt started, and log your putts. Skipping this means nothing gets recorded for that green — the app won't fill in made-up numbers.

It flags something on that shot that needs your confirmation or correction before the round can close out cleanly. Clear any amber tags before tapping Finish so your round data comes in clean.

Once "That's the round" appears, tapping Finish triggers your analysis, coaching feedback, and updated practice plan automatically — no further action needed.

Your Par is a personalized target for each hole based on your handicap, not scratch golf — the score that's realistically yours to shoot. It's why a 100 at your home course might read as "+3 over your number" rather than "+28 over scratch." It measures you against yourself, so progress is visible round to round.

Those are outcome probabilities — the caddie's read on what's likely to happen with a given club and target, based on your distances and miss patterns. They're there so you can weigh risk, not just distance: sometimes the higher-percentage play is the smarter one even when a more aggressive club would reach.

It draws on the miss shape and direction you set per club in bag setup, refined by your actual shots over time. That's what lets it say things like "your miss is left here, so favor the right half" before you hit.

It's a coaching narrative rather than a stats page — it names what cost you strokes, separates execution from decision-making, and writes a per-hole coaching line for each hole you played. From any finding, you can tap through to a drill that addresses it.

They're the behavioral scoring categories the app tracks: Tee Reliability, Short Game, Putting, Damage Control, Green Access, and Miss Quality. Together they show where your scoring is actually won or lost, beyond a single handicap number.

Your coach gives you a short brief — your last round, the one move to work on next, and where your game stands. Ask it a question and it answers with your real rounds and shots in front of it, and it remembers the conversation, so a follow-up like "tell me more about that hole" just works.

Assessment (your initial setup), the rounds you play, warm-up sessions ("the Ritual"), Apple Watch sessions, and any manual edits you make. Nothing is guessed without evidence.

Check the club's confidence label — it moves from "Learning" toward "dialed" as more evidence comes in. Each club card also shows which source (assessment, rounds, warm-ups, or manual) its current number is based on.

Common causes: a new shaft, a lesson that added distance, or gradual drift that shows up on the club's chart over time. Use "Re-map this club" to reset it without losing history, or re-run the whole bag through Assessment if several clubs shifted at once.

Yes — dispersion builds from confirmed shots over time. Early on, before enough evidence exists, the app uses a typical spread for your skill level and tells you that's what it's doing, rather than presenting it as a confirmed number.

Not yet — video-based swing analysis is coming soon. Today, your distances and tendencies are built from rounds, warm-ups, Apple Watch sessions, and Assessment. We'll announce video analysis when it's ready.

They're generated from your own round data — the app turns what cost you strokes into a focused plan rather than a generic drill list. The coaching loop then validates what you worked on, watches for it on course, and sets your next priority.

Practice mode is for reps and building feel; test mode measures where you actually stand on a drill so the app can track improvement over time. Both draw from the same drill categories.

From a finding in The Verdict, you can tap straight through to the drill that addresses it — so practice is tied to what your rounds show, not chosen at random.

The Clubhouse is Drop The Hands' community feed. It's where you share standout holes from your rounds and set up rounds with other golfers. Drop The Hands is an 18-and-over app, and the Clubhouse is an adults-only community.

You can share a hole replay — your group can watch the shot trail from that hole, not just read the score. Full-round shares appear as stat cards (your numbers for the round) rather than a watchable replay.

At the bottom of the replay, swipe up to the Coach's Pass which provides you with a shot-by-shot account of the hole. At the bottom of the Coach's Pass is the share button. Tap the share button and decide where you want to share the replay. The options are Just Me, which shares to your Clubhouse locker; Friends, which shares to your friends in the Drop The Hands Clubhouse; and Share the replay, which allows you to share the clip outside of Drop The Hands.

Yes — when a member shares a hole replay, you can tap it in the feed to watch the shot trail play back.

From the Friends tab in Clubhouse, you can search and request friends. Once the request is accepted, they will appear in your friends list.

You can propose a tee time and lock in a round with your group from the Drop The Hands Clubhouse. You can propose a tee time to any of your existing friends in the Drop The Hands Clubhouse.

Yes, you can share to your locker, your friends, or broadly outside of Drop The Hands.

Tap the menu at the bottom of any player profile in Clubhouse. You can then mute, remove, block, or report the player and/or content.

The app is free to download and comes with a 30-day full-access trial. After the trial, founding membership is $25 a year, locked in for as long as you stay a member — founding pricing is available for a limited time. Everything is shown on the subscription screen before you commit.

Membership is handled on our website, dropthehands.ai — not through the App Store. You subscribe, update your payment method, and cancel from your account there. There are no in-app purchases to manage.

Yes. You add a payment method when you start your trial, but you're not charged until the 30-day trial ends. Cancel any time before then and you won't be charged.

The trial runs 30 days from signup. Founding membership billing begins automatically at the end of the trial unless you cancel before it ends. Your specific trial end date is shown in the app and in your signup confirmation, and we email you 7 days before the first charge.

Cancel from your account on dropthehands.ai before the trial's last day. You'll keep full access through the end of the trial period and won't be charged.

No. If a payment fails, we keep your membership active for a 7-day grace period and retry the charge while you update your card in your account on dropthehands.ai. Access only lapses if the payment can't be completed within that window — and your rounds and data stay safe regardless.

This is almost always timing — the cancellation was submitted after the trial's cutoff. Check the cancellation confirmation in your account on dropthehands.ai, and if something looks wrong, contact support with your account email and we'll sort it out.

Yes, within 14 days. Founding memberships are refundable within 14 days of a charge — contact support with your account email and the charge date and we'll take care of it. After 14 days we're not able to refund a charge, but you can cancel to stop the next renewal.

You keep full access through the end of your current paid period. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it doesn't revoke access you've already paid for. If you rejoin later, your founding rate comes back with you — same $25 a year.

Settings → Account → Delete Account. You'll be asked to confirm, since this is irreversible.

Yes. Deleting your account cancels your membership — we cancel your subscription before the account is removed, so you won't be charged again. If you'd rather keep your account and just stop paying, cancel your membership on dropthehands.ai instead.

Your profile, rounds, practice history, and swing videos are permanently removed and cannot be recovered once you confirm deletion. We retain only the payment records we're legally required to keep — nothing that identifies your golf.

Immediately. Your account and all associated data are permanently removed the moment you confirm — there's no processing delay.

There's no separate "deactivate" state. Cancelling your membership stops billing while keeping your data intact — that's the closest option if you want to preserve your history but stop paying.

No. Deletion is immediate and irreversible — your data is removed the moment you confirm, with no recovery window. Because it can't be undone, we ask you to confirm before it goes through.