3 stats elite amateurs keep that you should, too

Ami Gianchandani stood on the first tee of her first golf practice at Yale University in 2018 and had no idea what her coach was talking about. The coach had told her, “Keep your stats,” and Gianchandani was at a loss. She hadn’t kept stats before.

She learned that Yale used an app, but she quickly found it to be clunky and slow. It wasn't what elite amateur players were looking for, and Gianchandani knew it because she was an elite amateur player. When the pandemic hit a couple years later, pausing college golf, Gianchandani took it as an opportunity to take a year off and build a stat-tracking app that she and her competitors would actually want to use.

Accel Golf was born. The app doesn’t require you to pick up your phone every shot and input data. Instead, you print out a sheet and keep your stats on there, like you would on a scorecard.

After the round, you scan the sheet with your phone and the app does the work calculating your stats. On the stat card, players keep track of each shot. You’ll write down how far you are from the hole on each shot, where the shot landed (fairway, rough, green or sand), whether it missed to the left or right, long or short, and you’ll record if you received a penalty.