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AI analysis of golf scores

  • 14-11-2025 10:40PM
    #1
    billy3sheets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭


    This might be for the more technical (geeky?) members of boards but however…I had a play around with using AI to analyse my scoring for the past year.

    I got my scores from my home club St Margaret's off Masterscoreboard and put them in CSV file and uploaded to AI - Deepseek in this case but any of them will do it - and asked it to provide an analysis. I had to provide it with par and SI for each hole. I also had to prompt it to treat pickups (PU) as triple bogies. I gave it a handicap to work with too. Here's some of the output it produced:

    Master Analysis: Performance vs. Expectation

    Hole

    Par

    SI

    Strokes Received

    Your Avg Score

    Net Score Goal

    Verdict & Strategy

    1

    4

    13

    0

    4.9

    4

    Leak. Should avg. par; instead avg. bogey. Find more fairways.

    2

    3

    17

    0

    3.8

    3

    Major Leak. Should avg. par; instead avg. bogey. Key priority.

    3

    5

    11

    1

    7.1

    6

    Major Leak. Net goal is 6; you avg 7.1. 3-shot strategy essential.

    4

    4

    1

    1

    5.9

    5

    Major Leak. Net goal is 5; you avg 5.9. Play for bogey (net par).

    5

    3

    15

    0

    3.5

    3

    On Target. Avg. slightly over par is fine for a par 3 with no stroke.

    6

    4

    3

    1

    5.5

    5

    Leak. Net goal is 5; you avg 5.5. Too many doubles.

    7

    4

    5

    1

    4.7

    5

    Solid. Beating net par avg. Good.

    8

    5

    9

    1

    6.7

    6

    Major Leak. Net goal is 6; you avg 6.7. 3-shot strategy essential.

    9

    4

    7

    1

    5.2

    5

    On Target. Net bogey avg is perfect.

    10

    4

    10

    1

    5.1

    5

    On Target. Net bogey avg is perfect.

    11

    4

    6

    1

    5.3

    5

    Slight Leak. Slightly over net bogey avg.

    12

    5

    18

    0

    6.5

    5

    Major Leak. Should avg. par; instead avg. bogey+. Poor for easiest hole.

    13

    3

    12

    1

    3.8

    4

    On Target. Net bogey avg is fine.

    14

    4

    4

    1

    5.2

    5

    On Target. Net bogey avg is perfect.

    15

    3

    14

    0

    3.5

    3

    On Target. Slightly over par avg is fine.

    16

    5

    16

    0

    5.9

    5

    Leak. Should avg. par; instead nearly bogey. Missed opportunity.

    17

    5

    8

    1

    6.8

    6

    Major Leak. Net goal is 6; you avg 6.8. 3-shot strategy essential.

    18

    4

    2

    1

    5.4

    5

    On Target. Net bogey avg is perfect.

    Corrected Executive Summary & Final Action Plan

    The real story is now clear:
    You are losing the most shots on holes where you do NOT get a stroke, because you are failing to make par.
    Specifically, Holes 2, 12, and 16 are the biggest missed opportunities.

    Top 3 Priority Holes (Corrected):

    1. Hole 2 (Par 3, SI 17) – No stroke – You should be averaging par; you average bogey. This is a pure execution problem.
    2. Hole 12 (Par 5, SI 18) – No stroke – Easiest hole on the course; you should be attacking for par, yet you average 6.5.
    3. Hole 4 (Par 4, SI 1) – 1 stroke – Even with a stroke, you average nearly double bogey net. This hole is a mental and strategic block.

    Par 5 Summary:

    • With a stroke (Holes 3, 8, 17): You are underperforming net par.
    • Without a stroke (Holes 12, 16): You are severely underperforming real par.

    Now anyone who has played with AI will know that it can make some stupid errors and this was no exception. I had to make corrections and add additional prompts to get sensible outputs and crosscheck a few things against a spreadsheet. However, it should remember these things or you can build an agent with these specific prompts so it can be reused and shared so others can use.

    Apart from the AI issues, there are other considerations such as the tees and completion type (strokes, stableford, v-par) which skew the analysis but you can instruct your AI to use any subset you like, or omit outliers where you were injured, hungover etc.



Comments

  • #2
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    Neat exercise but I'm not really sure there is enough information on a scorecard for AI to offer any advantage over a simple excel spreadsheet…certainly not enough to offer any game improvement advice!



  • #3
    billy3sheets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭billy3sheets


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123994910#Comment_123994910

    Yeah, it's limited information. 25 rounds played from March to November with no information other than the strokes per hole.



  • #4
    VW 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭VW 1


    If you also track whether you hit or missed the fairway as well as GIR, it might be able to give you better specific feedback on outcomes and where you've lost shots due to not hitting a fairway or green or come up with up/down percentages where you miss particular greens etc.

    Ultimately it's just going to tell you you'll score better where you hit fairways and greens and don't 3 putt!



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