Mental Caddy
The app that caddies your club and your head
Golf is played between your ears. Now you can measure it.
Four taps a hole. Mental Caddy turns them into a Mental Par Score, a Mental Handicap and the exact number of shots your head is costing you.
Three full rounds, everything unlocked. No card.
Cutten Fields
September 21, 2026 · Round 12 of 12
Golf Score
82
+10
Mental Score
80.5
+8.5 · Par 72
Golf Handicap
8.4
Mental Handicap
11.2
Front nine
Your mind is costing you shots.
Close this gap and your scores follow.
vs 8 handicap
+1.24
"I believe it's impossible to overestimate the importance of the mind in golf."
You already know which shot cost you the round.
It wasn't the drive on 14. It was what you did for the twenty minutes after it.
Every golfer has the round they should have shot four better. You can describe it in detail at the bar afterwards. But on Monday there's nothing to work on, because nothing about it got written down. The scorecard says 82 and says nothing about why.
So you go back to the range and hit the shot you already hit fine.
Maps and caddy
See the hole. Know what the line is worth.
Every hole is drawn green up on real satellite imagery, with front, middle and back from your phone's live GPS the moment you walk up to your ball.
Drag the target anywhere on the hole and the caddy shows you the number, warns you the second your line brings water, a penalty area or out of bounds into play, and tells you how many strokes that line gains or costs you. It's worked out from your own spread of shots with that club, so the advice fits the way you actually hit it.
Pull the caddy up and it hands you the carry, the club to go with and the safe club, adjusted for wind, elevation, temperature, altitude, lie and ground the way a tour caddy adjusts. Your pre shot routine sits right above the button, so the last thing you read before you swing is Aim, Reset, Commit.
Hole 6 · Par 4 · 371Y
411yds to pin
‹ SHOT 1
GPS 398 · 411 · 424 yds
AIMING
303
yds · EST
SG
+0.35
0.00 vs mid
CARRY IT
296yds
The hole, mapped
Real satellite imagery of the hole, your target, what's waiting if you miss and what the line is worth in strokes, with the caddy's carry and club waiting at the bottom.
Hole 9 · Par 3 · 145Y
145yds to pin
Carry it
134yds
10 into off the left knocks about 9 yards off. Smooth pitching wedge to the middle.
See the full breakdown ⌄
YardageMAP
145
LieAUTO
Tee
Change ⌄
10 mph into
Elev
Flat
Pin
Mid
Ground
Normal
Shape
Draw
Slope
Level
Sidehill
Level
AIM
See the shot
RESET
Breathe & release
COMMIT
Own it
See it. Feel it. Trust it.
A caddy in your pocket
The answer first, the carry and the two clubs, then yardage, lie and wind side by side and your routine right above Log shot.
Aim where your shots go
Most golfers aim at the flag and hope. Your caddy knows how your misses spread with every club, so when the pin is tucked it moves the target to where your bad shot still finds the green.
No more guessing the number
Live front, middle and back yardages, a straight answer on how accurate your GPS fix is right now, and the wind worked out for the direction you're actually hitting.
Every shot counted, no clipboard
Own It captures the lie, the distance and where you hit it from as you play. Your score and your shot list are waiting at the end of each hole, so there's nothing to type up after the round.
Mental score
Your mental game, scored like golf.
Four quick taps when you finish a hole, right under your score, which is already filled in from the shots you owned. Did you run your routine, did you commit, how did you feel and how was your head on that hole.
Mental Caddy turns those taps into a mental score against a mental par of 72 and builds a Mental Handicap the same way your real one is built, so the two sit side by side and you can see which one is holding you back.
For the first time the part of your game you've always felt has a number attached.
Hole 7 done
Your score and your head
Filled in from the 4 shots you owned on this hole. Change anything that is not right.
Par
4
Score
4
PAR
Putts
2
Mental scorecard
Pre shot routine
Committed to shots
How you felt
Mental game this hole
Mental tip
Locked in and committed. That's elite process. Stay present, keep the routine going.
Four taps a hole
Routine, commitment, how you felt and how your head was on the hole. It takes about ten seconds and the tip that comes back is about the hole you just played.
Performance
Stats
The cross reference
On your sharpest rounds you score 6 shots better than on your flattest. Same swing, same clubs.
Golf Handicap
8.4
Mental Handicap
11.2
Your emotional patterns
Your pattern FRUSTRATED showing up in 28% of your rounds.
Your head against your card
Your mental handicap tracked beside your real one, the shots your sharpest rounds are worth over your flattest, and the emotion that keeps showing up named out loud.
The part nobody else does
It cross references your head against your shots.
Every other golf app tracks your stats. Mental Caddy tracks what your head was doing while you produced them, then puts the two side by side and does the subtraction.
Round by round, it compares your sharpest headspace against your flattest and shows you the difference in actual shots gained. For most golfers that gap is worth several strokes a round, which means a serious chunk of what looks like a swing problem is a thinking problem, and no amount of range time will touch it.
Then it tells you which one to work on. Sometimes it sends you to the range. Sometimes it doesn't.
"Some leaks are in your swing. The expensive ones are in your head."
Find out what your head is costing you, in shots.
Strokes gained
Strokes gained, honestly.
Measured against golfers at your handicap, not against tour players, so a positive number means you beat your own standard.
Tap Own It before each shot and the lie, the distance and where you hit it from are captured for you. Every shot is valued as you play, then rolled up by category, distance and lie until it finds the exact situation costing you most, and hands you a drill for it.
Performance
Stats
vs 7.4 Handicap
vs Tour: −9.4
Your biggest opportunity is Approach, costing you 2.1 shots a round.
Trend
Measured against a 7.4 handicap golfer. Green means you beat your own standard.
Where the shots go
Off the tee, approach, short game and putting against your own level, with a trend line across your rounds and the one leak worth fixing first.
Cutten Fields
Based on 18 of 18 holes
vs 8 handicap
+1.24
Your caddy says
Your putter won you a shot. Approach from 150 to 200 gave most of it back, and the worst of it came from the rough on 11, right after the double on 9.
Shot by shot
Tap any category on your round summary and see every shot inside it, with the hole, the yardage, the lie and what it gained or cost you.
Three full rounds of all of it. No card.
AI powered
Golf Coach
Built from your rounds, your mental state and your club distances, grounded in proven sports psychology.
AI coach
A coach that actually reads your round.
After every round your caddy writes you a note. Not a template with your name dropped in. It reads your mental moments in the words you wrote them, your strokes gained by category, and what keeps recurring across your last several rounds, then tells you the one thing to do differently next time.
The mental side draws on the work the tour actually uses. Bob Rotella, Joseph Parent, Timothy Gallwey, Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott, David Cook. The technical side works from strokes gained the way a tour coach does. It quotes your own numbers back at you, and when the data doesn't support a conclusion it says so instead of inventing one.
Cutten Fields
📅 Sat, Sep 27 · 08:10 👥 4 golfers
David
Sean
Ryan
Tee times and group chats
The fourball organizes itself.
Post the tee time you've got and how many spots are open. Golfers near you see it and ask to join, and you get their handicap with the request, so you know who you're saying yes to before you say it.
The moment you accept someone the group chat is already there, because the chat is the tee time. Nothing to set up, no numbers to collect, nobody left off the thread by accident. Course, time, who's in and everything anyone needs to say about it, in one place until you tee off.
Then you play, and the app that filled the group is the same one keeping your card.
Mental Caddy
Link Up
Looking for a game?
Post a tee time. Other golfers can link up
Open tee times
David French
📍 Cutten Fields
Walking, skins on the side. All levels welcome.
Find a game
Post a tee time or find an open one near you, see who's in and their handicap, and fill the group. More golf, less texting around.
Mental Caddy
Messages
Linked up
David F.
Sean M.
Ryan M.
Jess T.
Other messages
Amy L.
Wants to link up 🤝
Every chat in one place
Talk to the golfers you've linked up with, the group you booked a tee time with, or everyone playing your home course.
Leaderboards and badges
A leaderboard for the golfer doing the work.
Then there's Golfer of the Month, a live leaderboard across the whole community. Points come from rounds played, days on the course, mental work logged, drills, lessons and tee times posted, so the golfer sitting on top isn't the one with the lowest handicap. It's the one doing the work.
Every badge has four tiers and none of them are handed out for showing up. Rounds played, consistency streaks, clubs mapped, courses explored, shots tracked, strokes gained, moments you owned when it would have been easier not to. Platinum on the Mental Game badge takes a full round at level mental par, the best answer on every hole, and it's meant to be hard.
The point isn't the badge or the ranking. It's that the thing you're chasing is the habit that lowers your handicap, so the game keeps pulling you back to what matters.
Achievements
Badges
🏆 Golfer of the Month
September 2026
⭐ Top 10
🏆 Hall of Fame
Ryan M. 410p
Aug 2026
David F. 385p
Jul 2026
Golfer of the Month
A live podium, a top ten and a Hall of Fame for every past winner. It resets every month, so a good month is always one round away.
Achievements
Badges
🏆 Monthly points
September 2026
140 pts
Tiered achievements
Mental Game
+3 best · Next: 💎 Platinum
Shot Tracker
9 / 15 · Next: 🥇 Gold
Gaining Ground
2 / 5 · Next: 🥈 Silver
Rounds Played
7 / 10 · Next: 🥇 Gold
Consistency
12 / 20 · Next: 💎 Platinum
Course Explorer
3 / 5 · Next: 🥈 Silver
Badges
Fourteen badges with four tiers each, including new ones for tracking your shots and gaining strokes, and the next tier always in sight.
Everything in the bag
Grouped by when you'd actually reach for it.
- Hole maps
- Every hole drawn green up, on satellite or yardage book view, with live GPS front, middle and back
- Live strokes gained
- Drag your target and see what the line is worth before you hit it
- Technical Caddy
- Club and carry adjusted for wind, elevation, temperature, altitude and lie, with the weather filled in for you
- Shot tracking
- One tap on Own It captures the lie, distance and position of every shot
- Mental Par Score
- Your mental game scored like golf, against a mental par of 72
- Pre shot routine
- Build yours once and it sits on the caddy screen for every shot
- Mental moments
- Log what got in your head, in your own words
- Works offline
- Full round tracking with no signal, syncs when you're back
On the course
- Mental Handicap
- Calculated the way your golf handicap is, so the two can be compared
- Strokes Gained
- Off the tee, approach, short game and putting, against your own level, with a trend line across your rounds
- Shot by shot
- Every shot on your round summary, valued, with the hole, the yardage and the lie
- Leak finder
- Drills down to the exact distance and lie costing you the most
- AI coaching plan
- Reads your rounds and your own words, grounded in sports psychology
- Practice drills
- Matched to the leak your data found, not a generic library
After the round
- The Academy
- Lessons on the mental game, course management and caddy thinking
- Club distances
- Map your whole bag properly with the simulator exercise
- Link Up
- Post a tee time, see who asks to join, approve the group
- Messages
- Every tee time gets its own chat, plus a chat for every course
- Notifications
- Know when a golfer messages you or a tee time goes up near your course
- Badges and rankings
- Four tiers per badge and a live Golfer of the Month leaderboard
Between rounds
Built for the golfer who's already trying.
If you keep a handicap, practice with intent and still can't explain why some rounds go sideways, this was built for you. It assumes you can play. It assumes you don't need to be told to keep your head down.
It's not a scorecard app. If you just want to keep score there are free ones and you should use one.
Meet your new golf coach
David French
Professional Golfer, Head Teaching Professional and Co Founder
David is a PGA of Canada Class "A" Professional and the Head Teaching Professional at Cutten Fields in Guelph, Ontario. The PGA of Ontario named him a top 25 professional in 2023 and he's been a constant figure on the Top 100 Professional Recognition Rankings.
He's worked with hundreds of students, touring professionals and complete beginners alike, helping them enjoy the game more and shoot lower scores through both the technical side and a better mental game. Every read the Technical Caddy gives you is the read he'd give you standing on the tee, and the coaching notes come from the work he does with his students every week.
The golfer who wouldn't let it go
Kyle Freiburger
Co Founder
Kyle came to Mental Caddy the same way most people come to golf, as an average player who just wanted to get better. He started taking lessons with David French and it didn't take long before the conversations drifted off swing mechanics and onto the part of the game nobody was really coaching.
Kyle is a Captain on a G450 private jet with more than 10,000 hours of learning to perform when the pressure is highest, and on the ground he's the owner and CEO of First Class Leaders, a mindset and leadership coaching company for people who want to do the same. David had the golf side covered. Between the two of them they kept circling the same gap: golfers at every level are bleeding strokes to the six inches between their ears and almost nobody is teaching them how to stop it. So they built the thing they couldn't find.
Kyle uses the app every time he plays and his handicap has been dropping ever since.
"You have to earn a better swing. The six inches between your ears is the part you can start controlling today."
Their coaching, in your pocket, for every round.
Your first three rounds are the whole app.
Every new golfer gets three complete rounds. The hole maps, Strokes Gained, the AI coaching, the Tour caddy, all of it, with no card and no checkout. Play them, read your coaching notes, find your leak. If it's not for you, walk away and nothing happens.
Yearly
$14.99per month
Billed annually at $179.88
- Save 25%
- Everything unlocked
Monthly
$19.99per month
Billed monthly
- Everything unlocked
- Cancel any time
After round three the free side stays free. Keep tracking rounds, scoring your mental game, logging your moments and capturing your shots for as long as you like. The hole maps and the other Pro features lock and wait for you to unlock them.
Questions
Do I need a card to try it?
No. Your first three rounds are the full app with no payment details at all. After that you keep your account, your history and everything on the free side. The Pro features unlock when you subscribe.
Does it have GPS and hole maps?
Yes. Pro golfers get a map of every hole with live front, middle and back yardages, a target you can drag anywhere, and the strokes gained value of that line before you hit. Your first three rounds include it. If we don't have the shape of a hole yet, the caddy still works exactly as normal on that hole.
Is this just a scorecard app?
No. It scores your round, but the point is what it does with the round afterwards: your mental handicap, your strokes gained against your own level, and the connection between the two.
Do I have to log every shot?
No. The mental game side works from four quick taps a hole. Shot tracking is what powers strokes gained, and it happens as you play: tap Own It before each shot and the lie, distance and position are captured for you. At the end of the hole you just check the list and fix anything that is off.
Will it work if I only play once a week?
Yes. Three or four rounds is enough for the patterns to settle. Strokes gained needs a few rounds before you should trust a conclusion and the app tells you when it's ready rather than guessing early.
Does it work without signal?
Yes. Full round tracking offline, everything syncs when you're back in range.
Is my data private?
Your rounds, scores and mental moments are yours. Nothing is shared to the community unless you choose to. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time from Settings.
Can I cancel?
Any time, from inside the app. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for.