Why should you care about dispersions?

Golf is a game of misses. Just because it’s cliché, doesn’t mean it isn’t true. We miss the target almost 100% of the time in golf, which means we are not aiming a finely tuned precision instrument like a rifle… It’s much more like a shotgun. Any time you hit a golf shot, there is a range of possible outcomes that we refer to as your ‘dispersion’. In order to play your best golf, the goal is to optimize leveraging your dispersion so that you get acceptable outcomes even at the boundary of your possible dispersion pattern.

Go at the flag and you might bring the ocean into play.

Choose a better target and you’ll have a better overall outcome.

Better players tend to have tighter dispersions which means they can choose more aggressive targets. Speaking of which, I used the 7th at Pebble for this example and even the best in the world can’t go pin seeking here. That green is so ridiculously small that it doesn’t make sense and missing it could be catastrophic. Front middle of the green is a good place to start.

Why aren’t TANGENT dispersions an oval?

You are probably used to seeing dispersion patterns displayed as an oval, often even tilted favoring one side or another. For example, for a right hander, dispersions are usually shown as a slanted oval from long left to short right. This is because when a golfer misses the target to the left, it often means a closed club face and less loft… so the ball goes further. Similarly when they miss right, it means an open club face, more loft, less distance.. short right.

However, golf isn’t played on a driving range. It’s played on an uneven surface with real environmental conditions. You don’t always hit it ‘pure’. A slightly fat shot can go short left. A slightly thin shot can go long right with many variations in between.

So with TANGENT we’ve moved to what we call ‘Landing Zones’. When we show your dispersion, we are showing a more realistic shape for where your ball could go including all possible outcomes that we see in real golf data on the course. This makes it much easier to see what might happen with a given target / club selection.

And we’re excited about it. Whether you’re planning a tee shot as above, or picking the perfect club for that approach shot into the par 3, the new Landing Zones do a better job of visually showing the most likely area will that shot will finish. The AI Caddie has already made it’s suggestion, but this will give you extra confidence to pull the right club.

The best part of the new Landing Zones feature is now the caddie can adjust for both vertical and lateral dispersion independently. You may find that you have some clubs that you can hit fairly straight, but the distance has more variation… for me, thats my driving iron (2 Hybrid). It’s going to go straight, but it could go anywhere from 220y to 280y depending on roll.

Compare that to my 4 Hybrid (4H) which has a tighter vertical dispersion, but much wider lateral dispersion.

The AI Caddie learns these dispersions for me the more I use the app, but getting the caddie to more closely match my actual performance means TANGENT will know exactly when its time to hit a 2H (when the hole favors straight and doesn’t penalize distance variation)… versus when its time to pull a 4H (when I need a tighter carry, but lateral direction is more forgiving).

Make sure to check out all these new features and more in the upcoming v3.0.3 update.

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