How to track rounds, read your summary, and install the app on your phone.
New rounds default to Performance Tracking. You can switch to Basic Tracking anytime before starting. Handicap comparison (My Game, Typical Golfer, or Play-to-Index) is chosen after the round in Performance Analysis — not during setup.
RoundWise offers two tracking modes. Both use the same navigation and save your round locally. Performance Tracking adds observations during the round and unlocks coaching analysis afterward.
Fast scorekeeping with traditional golf statistics — score, putts, GIR, and penalties. Best when you want familiar percentages without extra on-course taps.
After the round, open your Round Summary for score and traditional stats.
Track additional observations (tee result, green shot, around green, first putt distance, and more) to unlock Performance Analysis and coaching takeaways after the round. Still records score, putts, and penalties.
Hole flow follows your shot sequence: tee → approach → green → scoring fields → optional notes. Clubs are optional in both modes.
Analysis is rules-based — helpful for practice focus, not official strokes gained.
Par
Hole par (3, 4, or 5). Auto-filled when you start a round with a course and tee (scorecard loaded). Use Start Without Course to set par manually on each hole.
GIR (Green in Regulation)
Official GIR: was the green reached within par minus 2 strokes (par 3 by 1, par 4 by 2, par 5 by 3)? RoundWise derives this from score minus putts on completed holes. It is not the same as whether your recorded approach hit the green.
Putts
Number of putts on the green for this hole.
Penalties
Penalty strokes counted on this hole (OB, water, lost ball, etc.).
Penalty off the tee?
Of your penalty strokes, how many happened off the tee? Used in summary penalty breakdowns.
Score
Your total score on the hole. Starts at 0 until you set it.
Additional Notes
Optional free-text notes for the hole (expand to edit).
Playable Approach
After your tee shot, did you have a normal look at the green — not a punch-out, forced layup, or recovery because of trouble?
Avoided Short Side
When you missed the green, did you avoid leaving yourself on the short side of the pin? Only shown when GIR is No.
Tee Result
Where your tee shot left you: Clean Look, Awkward but Playable, Punch-Out / Layup, or Lost / OB / Water.
Club used off the tee
Optional. Which club you hit from the tee.
Approach Distance
Yardage bucket for your approach shot: <50, 50–100, 100–150, 150–200, or 200+ yards.
Club used for approach
Optional. Which club you used for the approach.
Approach Result (Green Hit)
Did the recorded green-attempt / approach shot hit the green? A later successful approach can be a green hit even after GIR is already lost.
Lie Around Green
When the approach missed the green — where the ball ended up around the green: Fairway / Fringe, Rough, Bunker, or Recovery.
First Putt Distance
Length of your first putt (yard buckets at entry): Inside 1 yd, 1–2 yd, 3–5 yd, 6–10 yd, 11–15 yd, or 15+ yd.
On Round Analysis, Performance Analysis compares your score to a selected benchmark and shows where the gap came from by phase. Positive gap means strokes above expectation; negative means strokes saved vs expectation.
Choose a comparison mode after the round (not during setup, not saved to your round):
My Game uses gross_differential_v1 and is independent of the Season Dashboard Handicap Estimate.
Playing Level is your course-adjusted Score Differential over time (lower is better). It does not use a personal baseline, so your first rated 18-hole round appears. Dashboard filters only choose which rounds are shown — they do not rewrite a round’s differential.
Current Form is recent My Game performance versus your own normal (Last 20 rounds from before each round). Negative / “better than normal” is form, not a permanent skill change: as your baseline catches up, form can return toward even while Playing Level stays better. The summary uses the most recent five form rounds in the current dashboard view.
Playing Level and Current Form use rated 18-hole rounds only. Nine-hole trends are not shown yet.
Phase Form shows whether Driving, Approach, Around Green, Putting, and Penalties are currently better or worse than your recent normal. Negative numbers are better; positive are worse. This is form (your baseline can catch up), not a claim that a phase permanently improved. Only Performance Tracking rounds appear here. Dashboard filters change which rounds are averaged; they do not rewrite an old round’s values.
Tap a Phase Form row for Phase Detail: observed stats such as Green Hit %, Traditional GIR %, 1-Putt %, and 3-Putt % over the same dashboard window. These help explain why a phase looks better or worse than normal. They do not split the Phase Form number into exact stroke sources. Green Hit (recorded green shot) and GIR (regulation) stay separate. 3-Putt % is three or more putts divided by holes with putting recorded, including 0-putt hole-outs in the denominator only. Club-by-club breakdowns stay on Club Performance.
Phase Detail uses the same round window selected on the Season Dashboard. Changing the dashboard window changes which rounds are summarized, but does not rewrite the historical My Game baseline for any round.
Phase Contribution shows how your total gap versus the selected benchmark is attributed across Driving, Approach, Around Green, Putting, and Penalties using hole-by-hole performance evidence.
For My Game, phase values are deltas vs your normal game using the same signed numbers: negative is better, positive is worse (for example -2.4, +1.2, 0.0).
Negative values mean better than benchmark (helped your score). Positive values mean worse than benchmark (hurt your score). This is benchmark-gap attribution — not independent ShotLink-style strokes gained.
For Typical Golfer and Play-to-Index, choose a handicap tier (Scratch, 5, 10, 15, or 20) under Compared with. Comparison is chosen on Round Analysis only — those choices recalculate and are not saved to your round. A handicap picked when an older round was created does not control review.
Typical Golfer compares you with the typical scoring of a golfer carrying that Handicap Index. Play-to-Index compares you with a score that plays to that Index on this tee. Typical Golfer uses RoundWise calibration (typical_golfer_v1) — not an official USGA formula.
High — most scored holes have tee result, approach distance, first putt distance, and lie (when the green shot missed). Breakdowns are more reliable.
Medium — some performance observations filled across the round. Totals may under-count holes with missing data.
Low — many holes missing context. Totals rely on penalties, putts-only fallbacks, or empty categories. Top takeaways may note lower confidence.
The summary may show up to three Top Takeaways (biggest category contributors) and one Practice Recommendation. Expand "How this was estimated" for per-hole detail and scaling notes.
Total score, total par, score to par, and averages by par type. For 18-hole rounds, front 9 and back 9 subtotals appear when applicable.
Shown when you picked a target at round start. Compares your score to the per-hole target baseline.
Delta: E = even with target · +N = N over · −N = N under
Total putts and putts per hole for scored active holes.
Playable Approach
Holes where you had a normal approach opportunity (Basic Tracking rounds; also computed for Performance Tracking when recorded).
GIR
Overall and by par 3 / 4 / 5, derived from score minus putts vs par — not from whether the recorded approach hit the green.
Adjusted GIR
GIR percentage counting only holes with a playable approach. Par 3 adjusted GIR matches regular Par 3 GIR.
Avoided Short Side
When you missed the green, how often you avoided the short side.
Penalties
Total penalty strokes, plus how many were off the tee.
Appears only for Performance Tracking rounds on Round Analysis. Shows benchmark picker, confidence, phase breakdown, insights, and expandable methodology detail.
Use Edit Round to return to hole entry, Export JSON on a single round, or Finish Round to mark complete. For all rounds at once, use Export RoundWise Backup below. Long-term trends for completed rounds are on the Statistics page from home.
RoundWise currently stores rounds locally on your device (browser storage). They are not synced to the cloud.
We recommend exporting a backup occasionally — before major app updates, when switching phones, or if you might clear browser data.
Downloads every locally stored round as one JSON file (roundwise-backup-YYYY-MM-DD.json). Restore/import is not available yet — keep this file somewhere safe.
RoundWise is a Progressive Web App. After a new version is deployed, your installed app may temporarily show an older cached version.
If the latest version doesn't appear:
Installed PWAs cache files for offline use. A refresh after reopening usually picks up the newest build. Your rounds stay on this device unless you clear site data.
RoundWise is a Progressive Web App (PWA). Install it on your home screen for full-screen use and offline access after the first load.
Launch from the home screen icon for the best experience. iOS may show a brief install tip when you first visit.
Exact wording varies by Android version and browser. If no prompt appears, use Chrome menu → Install app or Add to Home screen.
Installed rounds stay on this device in local storage until you clear browser data or finish/export them.