Doctor’s notes for golf.
After every coaching session, Stroke Gained generates a structured summary — what you worked on, what the data showed, and what to practice next. Sent to your student automatically.
What’s in Every Summary
Structured, consistent, and sent automatically after each session.
Key Focus Areas
What you worked on during the session, clearly documented.
Launch Data Highlights
The numbers that mattered most, pulled from the session automatically.
Swing Video Timestamps
Direct references to specific moments in the session video.
Prescribed Drills & Goals
What to practice before the next lesson, with clear targets.
Coach's Notes & Observations
Your coach's interpretation and context, in their own words.
Sample Session Summary
This is what a real session summary looks like. Every lesson generates one automatically.
my_locationFocus Areas
- •Reducing early extension through impact
- •Improving hip rotation speed in the transition
- •Wedge distance control (50-80 yards)
bar_chartData Highlights
Improved shaft lean at impact from 2 degrees to 6 degrees
Attack angle moved from -3 to -1 degrees
Tighter grouping after tempo drill
checklistPractice Assignments
- check_box_outline_blankWall squat drill for hip rotation awareness — 10 reps daily before hitting balls
- check_box_outline_blankFeet-together 7-iron swings — 15 reps per practice session, focus on maintaining balance
- check_box_outline_blank50-yard pitch shots with alignment sticks — 20 reps, track how many land within 10 feet
videocamVideo Timestamps
Why This Matters: The Forgetting Curve
Forgotten Within 24 Hours
Research by Hermann Ebbinghaus on memory retention established what psychologists call the forgetting curve. Without any reinforcement, people forget approximately 70% of new information within 24 hours of learning it. For golf students, this means the detailed corrections, cues, and drills discussed during a Tuesday lesson are largely gone by Wednesday morning. The student shows up to their next practice session and cannot remember whether they were supposed to focus on hip rotation or shoulder turn, let alone the specific feeling or drill their coach prescribed.
Better Retention with Written Reinforcement
The same research shows that structured review at timed intervals dramatically improves retention. A student who receives a written summary of their lesson within hours of the session, then references it before their next practice, retains significantly more of the coaching content. Stroke Gained delivers that summary automatically. The student does not need to take notes during the lesson, the coach does not need to write up notes after, and neither party needs to remember to follow up. The system handles it, and the student walks into their next practice with a clear reference for exactly what to work on.
For Coaches: Protect Your Time
Writing detailed lesson notes for every student after every session is the right thing to do, and almost no coaches do it consistently because of the time it takes. A coach who gives eight lessons a day would need to spend an additional hour or more writing summaries. Stroke Gained generates the first draft automatically, pulling from the session's video analysis, launch data, and prescriptions. The coach reviews it, adds any personal notes, and approves it. What used to take ten minutes per student now takes two. The student gets better documentation, and the coach gets their evening back.
Your students forget 80% of what you tell them by the next lesson.
Session summaries fix that — and save you from repeating yourself. Every session documented. Every drill assigned. Every improvement tracked.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can coaches customize what appears in the summary?
Yes. Coaches can add, remove, or reorder sections before the summary is sent to the student. The AI generates a draft based on what happened during the session, but the coach has full editorial control. Some coaches prefer to add a personal note at the top. Others focus heavily on the data section for analytically-minded students. The template is flexible enough to match each coach's communication style while ensuring no important information is missed.
How is the summary delivered to the student?
The summary is available in the student's Stroke Gained dashboard immediately after the coach approves it. Students also receive a notification through the app. The summary is accessible anytime from their session history, so they can review it before their next practice, pull it up at the range, or reference it weeks later when they want to see how a particular session went. Every summary is stored permanently in the student's account.
Can students access old session summaries?
Every session summary is stored in the student's account and can be accessed at any time from their session history. This creates a long-term record of their coaching journey. A student who started six months ago can go back and read their first summary, compare it to their most recent session, and see how their focus areas, numbers, and prescriptions have evolved. Coaches can access the same history, which is especially useful when a student returns after a break.
Does the summary include video timestamps?
Yes. The AI identifies key moments in the session recording and includes timestamped references in the summary. These are linked directly to the video, so the student can jump to the exact frame where their coach demonstrated a correction, where they made their best swing of the session, or where a specific issue was most clearly visible. Timestamps turn the summary from a text document into an interactive review tool.
How does the AI know what happened during the session?
The AI pulls from multiple data sources: session video footage analyzed through pose estimation, launch monitor data imported during the session, prescriptions created by the coach, and any notes the coach adds during or after the lesson. It cross-references these inputs to identify what was worked on, what changed, and what was assigned for follow-up. The coach reviews the generated summary before it goes to the student, so nothing is sent without human oversight.
Stop writing lesson notes by hand.
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