AI Caddy › Golf GPS app
A golf GPS app that tells you the yardage out loud
Most golf GPS apps show you a number. AI Caddy says it. Ask “how far?” and it answers with the distance to the front, middle and back of the green, then goes quiet until the next shot.
In short: AI Caddy is an Android golf GPS you talk to. It finds your course, follows you hole by hole, and speaks the yardages, so you don't have to take your phone out between shots.
What a golf GPS app actually measures
A golf GPS app compares two positions: yours, from your phone's satellite fix, and the green's, from a map of the course. The distance between them is your yardage. Three numbers matter on an approach shot:
- Front: the carry you need to land on the green.
- Middle: the safest single target when you don't know where the flag is.
- Back: the distance you mustn't go past.
Where the green's outline is mapped, AI Caddy measures front and back to the real edges of the green, from where you're standing, so they change as you move around the hole. Where only the green's centre is mapped, it gives you the middle and tells you the front and back are estimates. It doesn't dress a guess up as a measurement.
Why voice?
A screen means stopping, taking your glove off, unlocking the phone and finding the right hole. With AI Caddy you just ask. It listens for its name with the screen locked, in your pocket or on the cart, answers one question, and stops. There's no chat and no small talk, just the number you asked for. If you've entered how far you hit each club, it names the club too. (In a competition the Rules of Golf don't allow a device to recommend clubs, so ask for distances only. See what's allowed.)
What it knows, and what it doesn't
AI Caddy knows the yardages and your clubs. It doesn't know the wind, the slope of the green or where the hazards are, so it never mentions them. A caddie that invents a crosswind is worse than one that stays quiet.
Courses
Course maps come from OpenStreetMap, the free map that golfers and volunteers keep up to date. AI Caddy finds the courses near you automatically. At a club with several courses, each course is listed by name. If a green isn't mapped, stand on it and tap “I'm on this green, map it”.
See the hole as well
The satellite map shows the hole from above. Tap anywhere for the distance to that spot and from there to the green, which helps when you're planning a lay-up.
What you need
- An Android phone running Android 8.0 or later.
- Location and microphone permission (the app asks once).
- A data connection for the spoken answers. GPS itself works anywhere.
GPS running for a whole round uses battery, so start with a good charge.
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