For golfers who want to improve
Your simulator records the slice and the 7 iron that came up short. It just never explains them. Chip reads every session you log, builds your Golfer DNA from the pattern, and gives you one thing to work on at a time: a drill, ten balls, and the numbers that say whether it worked. If it did not, the next drill, until it does.
Free read of a launch monitor export, no signup
What the free decode tool tells you
Paste a launch monitor export and it names your biggest opportunity against the well struck window. This one is a real session, the author’s own: 30 shots, 3 clubs, premium ball.
What to do about it is the coach’s job. Three free messages, and Chip reads this same file. Read your own export
You have hit that miss for three seasons. Your launch monitor could have shown you the pattern after three sessions. Nothing was reading it, nothing remembered what you tried, and every trip to the sim or the range started from scratch: guess at what to work on, try a tip from YouTube, lose it by next week.
The data exists. The tips exist. What was missing is an analyst for your ball data: a coach that reads what your numbers say is causing the miss, prescribes the drill that changes it, then reads the next session to see whether that cause improved, and prescribes the next drill if it did not.
Pulling your file. Session 46, June 30: your 7 iron carry averaged 168 yds with a tight face window, but the driver miss came back. Three high toe strikes out of nine.
Tonight is a driver block: 15 balls, tee it a half inch lower, and feel the trail arm stay connected at the top. Log the session after and I will tell you whether the toe bias actually moved.
That is the miss Fore-ward Thinking fixes.
Chip reads the ball data from your last session against every one before it and names what is causing the miss, not today’s symptom.
You get the drill built for that cause, with the reps, the targets, and the numbers that will show whether it improved.
Next session, Chip reads the numbers again. If the root cause improved, you build on it. If it did not, you get the next drill.
What that loop looked like on the founder’s own wedges: the yardage card said 102 for the 54 and 119 for the 50. Chip flagged the 54 being delivered like a 50 with a strike that would not repeat. Ten balls at a time, the strike got fixed, the carries came in about seven yards shorter, and the dispersion tightened enough to rewrite the card. The full story is in the founder story.
Nothing resets. Every session builds on the last.
Free, no signup
Paste or upload a launch monitor CSV on the free decode page for a plain English read of smash factor, spin, launch, and descent against well struck windows. Tell it your lofts and your launch monitor and it reads your strong lofted irons against the right window, and refuses to grade a number your device only estimated. It runs entirely in your browser. Your numbers never leave the page.
Your Golfer DNA is a report, not a chat log. One tap exports it for the people who work on your game: a coach handoff with the miss named, a fitting readiness read, and your own before and after.
Build your Golfer DNA and get your first 3 messages with Chip free. No card required. You’ll see exactly what Fore-ward Thinking knows about your game before you decide anything.
Less than one hour with a teaching pro, with you every session.
Pro · billed monthly
Cancel anytime. And if you do, your Golfer DNA profile stays exactly where you left it. Pick up right where you stopped whenever you come back. Nothing you’ve built is ever lost.
On purpose. Fore-ward Thinking runs in your browser, so it works on any device and updates the moment we improve it. No app store approval delays, no downloads.
No, and that’s deliberate. Fore-ward Thinking coaches from your measured data: launch monitor numbers, range sessions, and on course results, not frames of video. Club path, face to path, spin, and strike patterns describe what your swing actually produced. Chip remembers those patterns across every session and prescribes practice against them. If you want frame by frame video analysis, pair us with a video tool. We’re the memory layer.
A shot tracker tells you what happened and which club to hit. Fore-ward Thinking is a coach. It remembers every session, finds the patterns across all of them, and tells you what to work on and why. Chat apps for golf answer one question at a time and forget you between sessions. Chip carries your whole history into every answer. Different job entirely. Many golfers use both.
Fore-ward Thinking reads session exports from Trackman, the Foresight family (GCQuad, GC3, Launch Pro), Uneekor, Garmin R10, FlightScope Mevo+, Square Golf, and Rapsodo MLM2PRO. If you play GSPro or another sim, your launch monitor’s export carries the same data. You can also log shots manually or just describe a session in plain language, and Chip coaches from that.
No. It’s most powerful if you have one, because there’s more data to coach from. But you can log range sessions and rounds by hand and still get real coaching built on your own game.
It’s your profile: a clear, evolving picture of your tendencies, misses, strengths, and progress, built from every session you log. It’s what makes the coaching specific to you instead of generic.
No. Upload your launch monitor export and Chip parses the session for you. You can also describe a session in plain language or log key shots manually when that’s faster.
Free to start: your Golfer DNA plus 3 coaching messages with Chip, no card required. Pro is $19.99 a month, cancel anytime. If you cancel, your data and your Golfer DNA persist.
Yes. Your sessions and your Golfer DNA are yours, and we don’t sell your data. You can export your Golfer DNA any time from your profile with the DNA button, and tailor the report for a coach, a fitter, or yourself.
No, and it’s not trying to. It makes your coach and your fitter more useful. Export your DNA, hand it over, and they get a precise history of your game instead of a vague description.
Your Golfer DNA stays put. If you come back, it’s all still there. You continue from exactly where you left off.
No app can promise that, and this one will not. You already know your miss. What Chip does is read your ball data for what is causing it, prescribe the drill that changes that cause, read the next session to see whether that cause improved, and prescribe the next drill if it did not, one thing at a time. The founder has about a year and a half of his own launch monitor data in it and uses it every session; what it did for his wedges and his index is on the founder story page. Bring your own numbers and judge the read.
Free guides to reading launch monitor and simulator data, from the same coaching approach that powers Chip.
A plain English guide to reading the ball and club flight numbers your launch monitor feeds into GSPro, and what "good" looks like club by club.
Iron loftsCheck the actual lofts before you switch: why distance iron misses run long, what bending weak really buys, and the fix menu in order of cost.
StatsGIR is a handicap mirror, putts per round is contaminated, and the up and down number is where the strokes hide: how to read the right scoreboard.