Short Game
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Leave yourself a tap-in.

Short Game keeps one number: how many of your chips finish close enough to leave a tap-in. Run a drill on the practice green or log a session you already played.

Get it on Google Play Version 2.2.0 · Android 7.0 and newer · six languages
Plan view of a hole: twelve chips, seven of them finishing inside the three-foot ring. 3 ft
58% 7 of 12 chips inside the three-foot ring — the one number Short Game keeps

Two ways to record a session

Both land in the same history and count towards the same statistics.

Leap Frog drill

Every ball has to stop farther than the one before it; the first one sets the mark. You judge each chip with one tap and the app keeps score while you practise — how many in a row, and how today compares with your best run.

Five balls at growing distances; the fourth one stops short of the mark and does not count. 1 2 3 4 short 5

You pick the club and how many balls. The result lands in that club’s statistics.

Chips at the target

Chip, look where the ball stopped, tap the green in that spot. Four zones — holed, within a foot, within three feet, further out — and the clock runs itself from the first chip to the last.

The green as the app draws it: the hole in the middle, rings at one and three feet, and ten chips marked where they stopped. 1 FT 3 FT

The club and one chip are all it needs. Distance, a note and a photo are optional, the time is measured for you, and the day and hour can be set to whenever you actually played.

What you get back

After a few sessions you know which club to rely on, when your practice actually works, and whether you are better than a month ago.

Practice screen: a four day streak, two ways to start — Leap Frog and Chips at the target — three of four sessions done this week, and a bar chart of accuracy over seven days.
PracticeYour streak, this week against your goal, and accuracy over the last seven days.
Recording a session: the green with its rings, twenty chips marked where they stopped, and the four zone counts below — one holed, four within a foot, eight within three feet, seven further out.
Chips at the targetOne tap per chip, where the ball stopped. Four zones, the hole included.
The Leap Frog drill in progress: ball four of nine, the line to beat across the track, and the running score — 67 per cent, two in a row.
Leap FrogThe line to beat across the screen, and the score running while you play.
Sessions screen: recorded sessions listed newest first, each with club, time, number of shots and its accuracy.
SessionsEverything you recorded, drills and logged sessions alike, newest first.
Insights screen: 64 per cent accuracy over the last seven days, a bar chart by day, and accuracy per club.
InsightsDays, weeks or months, your totals, and which club you can actually rely on.
Settings screen: display name, a weekly goal of four sessions, and rows for exporting your data, deleting all personal data and deleting the account.
SettingsYour weekly goal, and the three ways out of your data — export, wipe, delete.

Your sessions stay yours

Three things you can do with your data, all of them inside the app, none of them needing an email to anyone.

Take it with you

Settings → Your data → Export Your Data

Everything Short Game stores about you, as a file you can keep.

Clear the history

Settings → Your data → Delete all personal data

Sessions, results, photos, clubs and settings go. The account stays, so you can start again from zero.

Leave altogether

Settings → Your data → Delete Account

The account and everything in it is removed from the servers straight away. How deletion works

Who is behind it

Practice green with a target circle laid around the hole; some balls stopped inside it, some outside.
The circle marks the target of the drill — the chip has to stop inside it.

Hi, I am Mateusz Janiszewski. I have been playing for five years and I am a member of Armada Golf Club in Bytom, Poland.

Short Game came out of my own practice. After an hour of chipping I could remember three good ones — not how many of the twenty actually finished by the hole. So I started counting, and the counting turned into this app.

I post the practice as it happens on Instagram: the drills, the numbers and what comes of them on the course. Come by, and tell me what the app still gets wrong.

See @dzikigolf on Instagram

Frequently asked questions

What exactly does Short Game measure?
One thing: how often a chip leaves you a tap-in. The app counts a chip as good when it finishes within three feet of the hole, and every session feeds that number, per club and over time.
What does the app not do?
It does not analyse your swing, it does not judge your technique and there is no AI inside it — it counts what you give it and shows how that changes over time. Take the swing to your PRO, who can watch you live; no model will notice that your weight shifts too late. The app takes the other half of the job: it keeps the numbers, so you can see whether what you practise with your coach actually works.
What is the Leap Frog drill?
A chipping ladder. Every ball has to stop farther than the one before it, and the first one sets the mark. You pick the club and how many balls, then judge each chip with one tap while the app keeps the running score.
Do I have to hold the phone while I practise?
No — it can stay in the bag. A chip goes in with one tap on the green, so you can record as you play or set the day and time afterwards and tap in the session you remember. Only the stopwatch needs you there, and the duration can be corrected when you edit the session.
Does it cost anything?
No. Short Game is free, carries no ads and has nothing to buy inside it.
Which phones does it run on?
Android 7.0 and newer. An iPhone version is in preparation and will follow soon.
Which languages does it speak?
English, Polish, German, French, Spanish and Czech. The app starts in your phone’s language, uses English if the phone is set to anything else, and lets you switch it yourself in your profile.
Where is my data kept, and how do I get rid of it?
In Google Firebase, tied to your account. You can export everything as a file, wipe the history but keep the account, or delete the account outright — all three in Settings → Your data. How deletion works

Count the chips that finish by the flag

Free, without ads. Sign in with an email address or with Google, and your sessions follow you to the next phone.

Get it on Google Play Requires Android 7.0 or newer