Tangent Golf
About Tangent

We built the golf platform we couldn't find.

Golfers have never had more data and never had less direction. Tangent exists to fix that — to give you a genuine read on your own game, and a plan that turns it into lower scores.

Why we exist

The average handicap has improved by two strokes in thirty years.

Equipment got longer. Instruction got cheaper. Launch monitors went from tour trucks to garages. And scores stayed almost exactly where they were.

We think the reason is simple: the two halves of your golf life never talk to each other. What happens on the course gets tracked in one place, if at all. What happens on the range or the simulator gets measured somewhere else entirely. Nothing connects the miss you keep making on the 14th tee to what your club is doing at impact.

So you practice what feels broken instead of what's actually costing you strokes — and a season later, you're the same handicap.

What makes Tangent different

We're the only place your course data and your range data live together.

Shot trackers know what you did on the course. Launch monitors know what your club did on the range. Neither knows both — so neither can tell you why.

Tangent sits above both. When you miss right off the tee in 38% of your rounds and your range sessions show a face open to an out-to-in path, those aren't two facts any more. They're one problem with one fix — and we can prove whether the fix worked, because we're still watching the next round.

How it works

Collect everything. Explain it. Fix it. Measure it.

01

On-course data, collected for you

Every shot from every round, tracked automatically by your iPhone and Apple Watch — club, distance, lie, result, GPS position. No sensors to buy, no tags to screw into grips, nothing to remember mid-round. You play golf; the data takes care of itself.

02

Launch-monitor data, finally in context

Import your range and simulator sessions from Foresight GC3 and GCQuad, Garmin Approach R10 and R50, or SkyTrak. Ball speed, launch, spin, club path and face — benchmarked against real targets for your bag instead of sitting in a CSV you never open again.

03

Analytics that name the problem

Strokes gained against the golfer you're trying to become, broken down by driving, approach, short game and putting — in plain language. Not a wall of numbers, but one clear answer to "where am I actually losing shots?"

04

A plan, and proof it worked

Your biggest leak becomes a practice plan with measured drills, written guides and video walkthroughs. You practice it, we measure it, and it shows up in your next round's numbers. That's the connection — and it's the part most golf apps never make.

9M+shots tracked
200Krounds played
125K+golfers improving
30%average handicap improvement, year one
Who we build for

Golfers who actually want to know.

If you've kept a spreadsheet of your rounds, argued about strokes gained, bought a launch monitor for the garage, or worked through a stack of golf apps still looking for one that tells you something you didn't already know — this was built for you. Not for the golfer who wants a scorecard. For the one who wants an answer.

And we publish what we learn. The Insights library and our YouTube channel break down real data from real rounds — strokes gained, course management, short-game strategy — in the open, whether or not you ever pay us a cent.

Tangent

Stop guessing at your own game.

Start on the free tier — then automatic tracking, the Smart Caddie, and the analytics that tell you where your strokes are actually going.

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