Claude and Golf

Don't know the overall temperature around here about AI, but I'm in IT and we got a team plan for Claude at work. Once I started using it, I got a feel for what it can do. Then thought, could it get me to scratch in golf?

I started feeding it everything. Every round I had on record, every sim session, my full bag with every club, shaft, grip, etc. It immediately identified a few things off the bat, I was playing the wrong driver shaft, and what was costing me the most strokes. It recognized I had an early extension problem also helped me go from ~100 mph driver speed to 111 on the top end with a 108 average. It started spitting out practice plans to work on path and face to target. Then hammering various distances like 75 or 85 yards. It grades every practice to tell me what the weak link is.

It eventually evolved to build me a course log artifact that basically replaces the Grint or similar. The advantage is its personnel to me. It knows my swing better than anyone, knows my misses, my tendencies, which clubs and swing lengths has the best dispersion, I'm talking splitting hairs.

I open it on my phone, give it temp, wind etc.. then as I play I tell it what the distance to the pin is and it tells me exactly what shot to hit based on the elevation, the green elevation, Green size, and the wind. If it has multiple, it'll pick the one I'm best with based on my dispersions. It'll also say aim 5 yards left of the pin or at the front bunker on the right. After each round, it reads the data back in to tell me what cost me strokes that round and what to improve on or identify problem holes on a regularly played course and work out a different strategy for the next round.

I've used it a few times now and shot 72, 75, 71. It's pretty damn incredible. The first time I used it, I wouldn't' believe the club suggestions, like no way I need to hit this 85-yard shot for 73 yards and sure enough, pin high.

Not scratch yet, but it's a pretty fun experiment and is keeping me grinding.