Optivo is built on a few serious ideas — Strokes Gained, the World Handicap System, shot-level tracking. Here's what each one means and how to use it, without the jargon.
Every time you take a shot, there's an expected number of strokes it should take a benchmark golfer to finish the hole from where you're standing. Sink a 30-foot putt and you've done better than expected — you gained strokes. Chunk a wedge into a bunker and you've done worse — you lost strokes.
Optivo compares each of your shots to a PGA Tour baseline and adds up the difference. The result is a single, honest answer to the question every golfer asks: where am I really losing my shots?
Compare yourself to the tour to see where you stand against the best, or switch to the "vs You" baseline to measure today's round against your own typical play. And because approach and putting are broken down by distance, you can see whether the leak is your 175-yard iron or your six-footers.
Strokes Gained tells you where you lose shots. Insights tells you why — and what each leak actually costs you. It's a set of round-level views that turn raw shot data into a story you can act on.
A Sankey diagram traces every leaked and gained stroke from its Strokes Gained category into the exact distance or lie it came from. Red flows are strokes lost, green flows are strokes gained, and each band's width is proportional to its impact — so a glance tells you whether your putting leak is really a 25-foot problem or a tap-in problem.
The mistake-cost breakdown splits a round into clean execution, penalty events and failed recoveries, in signed Strokes Gained. Penalties and recoveries get their own trends, so you can see whether the big numbers are creeping in or settling down.
Expected-vs-actual scoring compares what you shot to what your game predicts, and the "if you played like Tour" view replays the round with tour-level execution — a concrete look at the strokes left out there. Disaster-hole and round-shape views finish the picture, flagging the holes that quietly wreck good rounds.
Where the strokes flow — each band links a category to the exact distance or lie behind it. Wider means more impact.
A handicap index is a portable measure of your demonstrated ability — it lets golfers of different standards compete fairly. Optivo implements the full World Handicap System (WHS) calculation on your device, so the number you see is the number a committee would arrive at.
Every qualifying round updates the index, and the progression chart shows you the trend over time — so you can see your handicap actually move as your game improves.
You don't have to track every shot to get value out of Optivo. Start light, go deeper when you feel like it. The richer the mode, the more analysis it unlocks.
Optivo finds nearby courses through Apple Maps. Playing somewhere off the grid? Drop a pin to create a custom course and it's yours forever. Course details live on your round, so your history stays intact even if a listing changes.
Keep swing thoughts, course conditions and lesson takeaways in one place. Add labels to organise them, and link a note to the round it came from so the context is always one tap away.
Export a clean scorecard, or generate an AI coach report that summarises the round in plain English. Both go out as text — drop them into Messages, WhatsApp or an email to your coach.
The Trends tab pulls it together — scoring trends, activity by month and year, and your handicap progression — smoothed so you can see the signal, not the noise.
One search field spans rounds, notes and labels. No more digging through tabs to find the round at Pebble or the note about your takeaway.
See distances in imperial (yards) or metric (metres) — your choice, applied everywhere distances appear.
