Solo round
You walk the course alone. Phone in pocket, AirPods in. Hey Caddy listens. The whole round — score, club calls, junk, recap — runs through your voice without you ever pulling the phone out.
Setting it up
- Open the app, tap New round.
- Search the course (favorites + recently played show first), pick your tee box.
- Add yourself as the only player. Hit Start.
- Land on Glance. Tap the floating mic to start hands-free mode, or tap the Tap to talk button at the bottom of Glance.
The wake word
Once hands-free is on, the listener fires when it hears “Hey Caddy”(also accepts the common mishearings: “Hey Kati”, “Hey Katie”, “Hey Kaddy”). After the wake word, say what happened. The caddy parses it, saves it, and speaks back a one-line confirmation.
On a windy course or in a cart, the wake-word listener can struggle. Tap to talk on Glance is more reliable — one tap, one sentence, done.
Walk-through of a solo hole
Tee box
“Hey Caddy, par 4, 153 over water, what should I hit?”
The caddy pulls your hole stats (yardage, hazard carries from the GPS data), your club distances from Settings → Club distances, and the current wind from the conditions card. It speaks back something like:
“Smooth 8-iron — 148 average, helping wind plays it 140. Aim 5 yards right of pin.”
After the hole
“Bogeyed 5 with two putts.”
The score logs (gross 5 on hole 5, putts 2). Glance auto-advances to hole 6. If you also said something like “Hit driver 250, had 130 in, hit 9 iron to 20 feet” the caddy attaches the club + distance + journal.
On the green
“Got a sandie.”
If you have a Junk bet on the round, the sandie claim attaches automatically. Same for greenies (par 3s prompt automatically), polies, snake, etc. See Bets for the full junk list.
At the 19th
“Recap my round.”
4–6 sentence post-round recap, spoken back. Headline number, what worked, what didn’t, the one thing to take to the range.
What gets tracked silently
- Score-to-par per hole, running total, last-hole detail (always on Glance).
- Stats — fairways hit, GIR, putts, three-putt rate, scoring distribution. See Stats & clubs.
- Club averages — every shot you log with a club gets averaged into your bag distances. Over time the caddy gets sharper.
- GPS to the pin — Glance shows live yardage as you walk. No map clutter.
- Apple Health — round-as-workout sync (steps, distance, active calories) once you wire it.
Why no tapping
Hands on the club, not the phone. Voice is the natural interface for golf. We’ve also kept tap fallbacks everywhere — quick-score chips on the scorecard, the per-player chip row, the floating mic — because sometimes wind / cart engines / mishearings make voice unreliable. Use whichever feels faster in the moment.