Gapping
Your saved numbers, read back as plain findings about your bag, each with the numbers behind it and where to go next.
What this answers
What do your saved numbers say about the gaps in your bag?
- Save your clubs and carries in one of these tools, or open the PGA or LPGA Tour example.
- Read the bag sheet: every club by carry, longest first, with the yards to the next club.
- Choose a topic under Findings to see the numbers behind each finding and where to go next.
Reopen it any time with ? Guide
Nothing saved in My Lab yetMy LabThe clubs, carries and spreads you save in the Golf Lab, kept in this browser on this device. The report reads them each time you open it.
Your report is written from your own numbers.
Save your bag in any of these three tools. This page reads what you saved and turns it into findings, each with the numbers behind it and where to go next.
See an example first Published
TrackMan’s tour average carries, 2023 data, published May 2, 2024. Carries only: no lofts, spreads or launch numbers.
- Gapping & Bag BuilderYour clubs, lofts and carries. The report finds the gaps, the overlaps, the loft steps and the span.
- Wedge MatrixEvery wedge at every swing length. The report finds the largest gap on the card and any overlaps.
- Shot Pattern LabA launch monitor session. The report adds each club’s spread and compares your launch numbers with the tour averages.
Each finding is arithmetic on the numbers shown, or a difference from a named source. How it is calculated
- ClubsClubsThe clubs in the bag, against the limit of 14 in Rule 4.1b of the Rules of Golf.
- 12of 142 below the limit
- Published
- Carry spanCarry spanThe shortest and the longest carry in the bag, in yards. The line below names the two clubs.
- 142–282ydPW to Dr
- Published
- Largest gapLargest gapThe biggest drop in carry between two clubs next to each other on the sheet, and which two they are.
- 33ydDr to 3W
- Model
- Gaps flaggedGaps flaggedGaps outside your gap band, plus overlaps: equal carries, or a shorter-carrying club with less loft. Without a saved band, the starting band is used.
- 22 outside 7–15 yd · 0 overlaps
- Model
Reading your numbers from My Lab, printing and sharing need JavaScript. This is the published example.
Each finding is arithmetic on the numbers shown, or a difference from a named source. How it is calculated
Show the bag as a table
| Club | Loft | Carry | Gap to next |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr | — | 282 yd | 33 yd, over band |
| 3W | — | 249 yd | 13 yd |
| 5W | — | 236 yd | 5 yd, under band |
| Hy | — | 231 yd | 13 yd |
| 3i | — | 218 yd | 9 yd |
| 4i | — | 209 yd | 10 yd |
| 5i | — | 199 yd | 11 yd |
| 6i | — | 188 yd | 12 yd |
| 7i | — | 176 yd | 12 yd |
| 8i | — | 164 yd | 12 yd |
| 9i | — | 152 yd | 10 yd |
| PW | — | 142 yd | — |
Carries: TrackMan’s PGA Tour averages, 2023 data (published). Gaps: one carry minus the next (model).
For your gear
From a finding to the gear
A gap that stays open
Between two irons or hybrids, the question is which club covers it: a hybrid, a long iron or a fairway wood. Between two wedges, it is a loft in between, and the bounce that suits your turf.
Launch numbers that differ from the tour
A difference from the tour average is a fact about your strike and your club, not a verdict. Loft is the part of the equipment you can change; the guides cover how makers set it.
How to choose driver loftHow to choose fairway wood loftDriver Finder
More clubs than the 14 you can carry
Every wedge you add costs a longer club, and the reverse. Spacing the wedges from your pitching wedge, and the irons you could swap for a hybrid, decide which clubs earn a place.
Method
How it is calculated
The report reads My Lab and nothing else, and stores nothing. Every finding is one of two things: arithmetic on your own numbers, such as a gap (one carry minus the next), a loft step or the yards two clubs’ spreads share, or a difference from a named, dated source: TrackMan’s 2023 tour averages for launch numbers, and Rule 4.1b of the Rules of Golf for the 14-club limit.
Gaps use the band you set in Gapping & Bag Builder, or its starting setting, labeled as such. The wedge card uses its own band. There is no score and no grade, and no club is named as the answer: each finding hands off to the Lab tool, finder, guide or category that deals with it.
The full method is on the Golf Lab methods page.