Golf Journal vs Yardage Buddy

Golf Journal is a golf diary for your rounds, your practice and your handicap. Log a round from its total in about 20 seconds, or hole by hole, and watch your handicap estimate move as you play. ROUNDS • Log the total, or score hole by hole: strokes, putts, fairways, greens in regulation and penalties. • Out and In totals, and a scorecard with your birdies, bogeys and doubles marked. • Notes, a feel rating, photos and videos for every round. • Scan a paper scorecard: take a photo and the hole scores are read on your iPhone for you to check. • Golf workouts recorded with the Workout app on Apple Watch show up ready to become rounds, with the date filled in. HANDICAP ESTIMATE • Uses the World Handicap System formula: the best 8 of your last 20 rounds, with nine-hole rounds paired. • See your trend, which rounds count, which one drops out next and what score would bring your estimate down. • Course handicap for each set of tees, net score and Stableford points. • Have an official Handicap Index from your club? Enter it and Golf Journal uses it for course handicap, net and Stableford. It's an estimate to follow your game, not an official Handicap Index. COURSES • Tees with course rating, slope, par and yardage, and a scorecard with par and stroke index for every hole. • Look up courses near you or by name. Course data comes from OpenStreetMap. • Your average and best score at each course. PRACTICE • Log practice sessions: range, putting, chipping, bunker, on course, lessons and more, with time, balls and notes. • Keep your swing cues and drills from one session to the next. • Start the practice timer and fill in the rest when you finish. • Turn a round's notes into a plan for your next session. INSIGHTS • How often you make birdie, par, bogey and worse, and how you score on par 3s, 4s and 5s. • Your hardest holes, your scoring by course and by month, and where your practice time goes. • Set a goal, such as breaking 90 or getting down to 15, and see how far off it you are. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • iCloud sync between your devices. No account to create; your diary stays on your devices and in your iCloud. • Widgets for your handicap estimate and your last round. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Log round", "Log practice", "What's my handicap". • A reminder when you haven't logged a round for a while. • Yards or meters. GOLF JOURNAL PRO Golf Journal is free for up to 3 rounds, 3 practice sessions and 2 courses. Golf Journal Pro removes the limits and adds export: your rounds as a spreadsheet (CSV) and a printable season report (PDF). Pro is available as a subscription or a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mygolfjournal.app/posts/privacy

Most golfers guess their club distances. They recall a few memorable strikes or rely on what the range card says, and then wonder why they keep coming up short or flying greens. Yardage Buddy fixes that by measuring your real distances — shot by shot, round by round — so you always know which club to pull. How It Works Tap to mark where your shot starts, select your club and swing effort, then tap again where the ball lands. Yardage Buddy uses GPS to calculate the precise distance and adds it to your personal statistics. Over time, a clear picture of your game emerges: your true carry distance for every club at every effort level. Wedge Matrix The wedge matrix is the feature most golfers reach for first. It shows your average carry at full, 3/4, and 1/2 swing efforts for every club in your bag. Instead of guessing whether a smooth 9-iron or a punchy pitching wedge gets you to 105 yards, you can look it up. These are your numbers, measured on real courses, not range estimates. Club Statistics For each club, Yardage Buddy shows your average distance along with your shortest and longest carries. Browse results by year to track how your distances change with a new driver, a swing change, or simply as the season progresses. Round History Every round is saved with the course name, date, and a full shot-by-shot breakdown by hole. Tap into any past round to review exactly what you hit and how far. It is like having a caddie who never forgets. Tracks Effort, Not Just Clubs A full 7-iron and a punch 7-iron are not the same shot. Yardage Buddy logs swing effort alongside each shot, so your averages reflect how you actually play, not just how hard you swing. Share Your Stats Share branded stat cards of your club averages and wedge matrix directly to social media. It is a quick way to settle debates about who hits it farther. Syncs Across Devices Your rounds and statistics sync automatically, so you can review your data on the web even when you are not on the course. Simple to set up. No subscriptions. No clutter. Yardage Buddy does one thing well: it tells you how far you hit the ball. Whether you are a beginner learning your game or a low handicapper dialing in your yardages, knowing your real distances is one of the simplest improvements you can make.