Tee - The tee box, where the ball is struck from a tee between two markers, which indicates the start of the hole.

Fairway - The fairway is the closely mown area of grass between the teeing ground and the green.

Rough - An area on a golf course covered with tall grass that makes it difficult to make clean contact with the ball.

Sand - A man-made area filled with sand strategically placed to challenge players.

Wasteland - A wasteland lie refers to being in an area of the course that is left uncultivated or wild, usually sandy with scattered rough grass, bushes and trees.

Green - An area of specially manicured grass surrounding the hole, excluding the fringe.

Recovery - Lies from which a clear shot to the green is not possible. Recovery shots include lies that have obstacles between the ball and the green, requiring the golfer to change their typical shot type to avoid the obstacle. It may also include extreme lie types from which there is virtually no chance of reaching the green and the purpose of the next stroke will be to put the ball back into a more favourable lie.

Minor Recovery - Any shot that has an obstacle, but your intention is to advance it more than 100 yards or hit it close to or on the green.

Examples are as follows;

Shaping a ball around an overhanging tree branch from the rough.

A stroke made from the trees where the intention is to advance the ball more than 100 yards towards the hole.

Major Recovery - A shot where you are unable to advance the ball more than 100 yards and must attempt to put the ball back into play.

Penalty - Any time the golfer is required to add a penalty stroke to their score.

Both units are accepted. A player can specify their preference on sign up.

Purely distance to the hole should be used to deliver the most consistent results.

On average, slope and wind will be accounted for as a player will likely have as many uphill strokes as downhill strokes and into the wind vs downwind strokes etc.

Use your best judgement. One stroke out of hundreds (or thousands) will not have a large bearing on overall data.

A stroke occurring in a difficult or unfavourable position on the golf course.

Examples

• A shot where you need to vary your trajectory to avoid an obstacle (such as a tree branch)

• Hacking a ball out from deep rough

• Chipping a ball out from behind a tree

• A restricted swing

• Taking a more lofted club out of a bunker to avoid hitting the lip.

Unless a different fairway was the intended line, enter the lie as rough.

If entered as fairway, fairways hit statistics will be affected.

The current version of GreenForm Golf is designed for high-level tournament (stroke) play where every hole must be completed.

A version for club golfers where “pick-up” is an option is currently in development.

Players will naturally select different target lines based on individual shot shapes, club distance and individual dispersion patterns. “Target Line Miss” is how far (left or right) the golf ball has come to rest from your target.

Example

Player A chooses the left edge of a bunker in the distance as the line they want their ball to finish on. They hit the ball 15 metres right of that target line.

‘Target Line Miss’ is 15 metres. The direction is right.

On the same hole, Player B chooses a tree stump behind the green as their target line. Their ball finishes in the left rough, but it is 5 metres left of the tree stump line. His ‘Target Line Miss’ is 5 metres. The direction is left.

A decision should be made on whether you want to input these rounds. Expect putting statistics to be worse than usual.

Off the tee will not be affected and only a slight impact is expected for approach and short game statistics.

The Lay Up option will only appear when Approach Data is switched on from the Round Entry page.

Only strokes from the fairway and rough from inside 250 yards are included when calculating your approach shot miss tendencies. When selecting Lay Up, the shot will not count towards your advanced approach tracking. Therefore, it is only a selectable option when playing from inside 250 yards from the fairway or rough.

Strokes from sand or a recovery position will not count towards advanced tracking so “Lay Up” does not need to be selected.

Only when Off The Tee data is switched off on the Round Entry page. When this is off, driving distance will account for all tee shots when calculating driving distance, regardless of whether it was a driver, wood or iron used.

When this option is turned on, a club type will be required for all tee shots on par 4s and 5s. Off The Tee data will be broken down by club and “Driving Distance” will only use strokes made from the tee with a driver.

Club types can only be selected for tee shots. A player’s performance off the tee with a Driver, Wood, and Iron can differ substantially and is important to quantify so strengths and weaknesses can be identified. Using this data we can create optimal strategies for circumstances where decision-making is important or a player is unsure on club choice.

The difference between irons is minimal and distances for each club can vary dramatically based on wind, slope and other factors. With club tracking for every stroke, data could show a player’s 8-iron performs better than their 7-iron so they begin using their 8-iron on shots where it is not the optimal choice or lower the player’s confidence with 7-iron.

Example

A player takes 8-iron from the fairway with 170 metres to the pin with the hole playing straight down wind. The ball comes to rest on the green 40 feet from the hole and is considered a “poor” shot. The player has gained 0.05 strokes with their 8-iron.

A player takes 7-iron from the fairway with 130 metres to the pin with the hole playing directly into the wind. The ball comes to rest on the green 40 feet from the hole and is considered a “good” shot based on the difficulty of the stroke. The player has lost 0.14 strokes with their 7-iron.

The 7-iron from 130 metres was superior after considering shot difficulty, however the 7-iron is rated 0.19 strokes worse per stroke than the 8-iron.

Pin positions can be selected based on which sector of the green they are located.

FL - Front Left

FC - Front Centre

FR - Front Right

CL - Centre Left

CG - Centre Green

CR - Centre Right

BL - Back Left

BC - Back Centre

BR - Back Right

Pin position data will be broken down as follows:

• Strokes Gained per attempt and Strokes Gained per round vs pin position

• Proximity to hole vs pin position with distance breakdowns

• Missed green tendencies vs pin position

This data is only available on the Specialist package.

Essentials and Premium users are able to track this data but are unable to view unless upgrading to the Specialist platform.

Putts that are 3ft or greater can be tracked as follows.

NB - No Break

LR - Left to Right

RL - Right to Left

SU - Straight Uphill

ULR - Uphill Left to Right

URL - Uphill Right to Left

SD - Straight Downhill

DLR - Downhill Left to Right

DRL - Downhill Right to Left

DB - Double Breaker

Putts will be categorised by distance and data displayed as follows:

• Make percentage by break

• Miss tendencies by break

This data will be provided to Premium and Specialist users.

Essential package users will be able to track putting breaks but can only access the data upon upgrade.

Tracking is available for strokes outside 50 yards (46m) and inside 250 yards (229m) from the tee, fairway and rough. Strokes from other lies such as sand, recovery areas or when laying up are not included.

Wind direction and approximate wind strength can be tracked as follows -

• No Wind

• SD - Straight Downwind ↑

• DOL - Down Off Left ↗

• LR - Left to Right →

• IOL - Into off Left ↘

• SI - Straight Into ↓

• IOR - Into off Right ↙

• RL - Right to Left ←

• DOR - Down off Right ↖

Users on the Specialist package will be able to view tee shot data on different types of wind relative to their target line. Essentials and Premium users are able to enter wind data but cannot see tee shot data unless upgrading to Specialist.

Analytics for wind data on approach can be provided on request.

Primary Wind refers to wind direction off the tee.

Secondary Wind refers to wind direction on approach to the green. This is only required if the wind direction differs to the Primary Wind.