STRATIQ User Manual

1. Each hole opens on its own card, with Prev/Next navigation and a running count of how many holes you have logged.
2. Enter your Score (2–10 pill buttons).
3. Fairway result — Left / Hit / Right (skipped automatically on par-3s).
4. GIR — Yes or No. If No, you'll be asked whether you attempted an up-and-down, whether it succeeded, and your scrambling commitment (Locked In / Distracted / Rushed / Uncertain).
5. Approach distance band — under 100y, 100–150y, 150–200y, or 200y+. This is what feeds the Dashboard's GIR by Distance panel.
6. Rate your Long Game, Approach, and Putting commitment for the hole (Locked In / Distracted / Rushed-Uncertain).
7. Putts (0–4 pills) — the value you enter carries forward to seed the next hole, so you only need to adjust it.
8. Penalties (0–4 pills). If more than 0, pick a type: OB / Water / Unplayable / Whiff / Other.
9. When you're done — from any hole, not just the last one — tap Save round at the bottom. If any hole is still missing a score, STRATIQ names those holes before saving, because a hole with no score is left out of both your total and your birdie/bogey counts.

Open the round from your Dashboard and use Edit hole by hole to step back through every hole and correct anything — a score, a putt count, a fairway or GIR result, an up-and-down, a commitment rating. As you edit, a summary shows which totals will change and what they'll change from and to. Saving recomputes every round-level number from the holes themselves: score, GIR, fairways, putts, birdies, bogeys, doubles, three-putts, scrambling, and penalties.

Rounds entered as Classic Totals, and any round logged before hole-by-hole detail was stored, have no per-hole record to reopen — those still edit through the round-level Edit form, which also lets you change the round type between Casual, Practice, and Tournament.

1. Enter FIR Opportunities (defaults to your hole count), Total Score, Fairways Hit, GIR, Putts, and Penalties.
2. Optionally add Birdies, Eagles, Bogeys, Double Bogeys, and Three Putts.
3. Tap Save Round.

1. Select the round you want to log shots for from the Select round dropdown (defaults to your most recent).
2. Pick a Benchmark population — Male or Female. This locks once you've logged any shot for that round — to switch, start a new round.
3. Use the hole navigator to pick a hole. Green means you've already logged a holed-out shot there; grey means shots exist but the hole isn't finished yet.
4. For each shot: pick your Club, confirm the Starting Lie (auto-set to Tee and locked for your first shot of the hole) and Start distance (yards, or feet once you're on the green).
5. Log your Mental state for the shot — Committed, Hesitant, or Second-Guessed — and tap the Miss direction you actually hit (Short / Left / Center / Right / Long).
6. If the shot took a penalty, select the type (Water / Out of Bounds / Unplayable Lie / Lost Ball) — Strokes charged defaults to 2 but you can override it.
7. Enter the Ending Lie and End distance, or check Holed out if it went in. Tap Save shot.
8. Repeat for each shot. Holing out auto-advances you to the next hole. If you make a mistake, Remove last shot undoes the most recent entry for that hole.

Every shot you save automatically refreshes the round's SG summary — nothing else to trigger. On the same page you'll see:

• Strokes Gained Summary — SG Off the Tee, SG Approach, SG Around the Green, SG Putting, and SG Total. This only shows a complete picture once you've logged every shot of the round; a partially-logged round shows a note that full-round logging is needed.
• Mental Impact — average Strokes Gained per shot, grouped by Committed / Hesitant / Second-Guessed, so you can see whether hesitation is actually costing you strokes rather than just how often it happens. Below 5 shots in a category, STRATIQ flags it as a low sample rather than drawing a conclusion from it — and this is correlation, not proof of cause.
• Club miss pattern — per-club miss-direction percentages, so you can see if a given club has a consistent bias.

A Selected Round vs. Last 5 Avg toggle switches all three panels between this single round and your trailing five complete rounds.

1. On the round's detail page, find the AI Tournament Intelligence card.
2. If nothing has been generated yet, tap Generate Plan (it will show "Analyzing..." while it runs).
3. If you've already generated analysis for this round, the same button reads Regenerate Analysis — use it if you've added Strokes Gained shots or corrected stats since the last run.

• Key Concepts — a short glossary (Baseline, Leak, Confidence, Variance band, Plan) if you want a refresher before reading the rest.
• Tournament Readiness — a 0–100 score for this specific round (colored: lime at 80+, yellow at 60+, red below). This is gated behind at least 5 rounds of baseline history — below that, you'll see "Insufficient rounds" instead of a number, with a count toward 5. This is a different number from the Dashboard's Competitive Readiness Index below — see the note at the end of this section.
• A low-sample sensitivity mode banner, shown only when your baseline has fewer than 5 rounds: thresholds for flagging issues are relaxed by 30% so the app doesn't over-react to a thin sample.
• A scrambling warning, if applicable — a "Scrambling Collapse Event" needs at least 8 attempts (or an extreme ≤10% success rate) to trigger; below 5 attempts you'll instead see a low-sample notice rather than a verdict.
• Baseline vs Round — a table comparing this round's score, FIR, GIR, putts, three-putts, double bogeys, penalties, birdies, bogeys, and up-and-down rate against your baseline, each marked better or worse. Below the 5-round reliability floor, every row reads "Insufficient baseline" instead of a verdict.
• Round Stability — your score's standard deviation, banded as Stable (under 2.0), Normal (up to 3.5), or Volatile (above 3.5). Needs 5 rounds; below that it tells you how many more you need.
• Where You Lost Shots — an estimate of "actionable leakage" versus your baseline, not total strokes versus par, and only shown when the signal is strong enough to be worth training on.
• Tournament Rules — if/then guidance cards pairing a performance issue with a specific response, plus a list of decision rules for during the round.
• A smaller, embedded practice suggestion built from this same analysis, grouped into Structural Foundation, Deficiency Emphasis, Pressure Simulation, and Maintenance. This is a quick, round-specific suggestion — for a full configurable session, use the dedicated Practice Plan Builder in Section 5.
• A collapsible Plan JSON (Debug) panel — raw technical output, not something you need to read for normal use.

Six stat cards (Average Score, Total Rounds, Average Putts, Fairway Accuracy, GIR, Scrambling — each with an info tooltip) are computed from your last 50 rounds. Below that, GIR by Distance breaks your greens-in-regulation rate down by approach distance band — compare bands against each other, not against 100%, since GIR% naturally drops the farther out you are. This only populates from rounds logged in Live Hole Entry mode. Recent Rounds lists your last 10; tap any row to open its detail page.

The CRI estimates the probability you'd survive and compete at your current tier, based on a Monte Carlo simulation of 5,000 scoring scenarios drawn from your recent rounds. It's a weighted blend of three simulated outcomes:

• 60% — Survival Probability: the chance of scoring at or below your tier's cut target
• 20% — Top-Quartile Probability: the chance of beating that target by 2 or more strokes
• 20% — (100 minus Meltdown Probability): a penalty for the chance of a significant blow-up round

This is a deliberate design choice: the CRI answers "can I survive at this level," not "do I have a good average." A strong average with high round-to-round volatility scores lower than a slightly worse average with far more consistency.

• 80–100 → Strong, reliable readiness at the current tier
• 60–79 → Competitive, with real but manageable risk
• 40–59 → Meaningful readiness gap
• Below 40 → Not yet established at this tier

The CRI is calculated from your Active Cycle — your most recent 5 eligible rounds (18-hole, scored). This window exists to reflect how you're playing right now, not your performance over months. Your competitive tier classification uses a separate, larger Tier Window of 15 rounds, which intentionally moves more slowly so one hot or cold stretch doesn't reclassify your level prematurely.

• 1–4 rounds → Low reliability
• 5–9 rounds → Moderate reliability
• 10+ rounds → High reliability (STRATIQ's recommended minimum for confident tier interpretation)

STRATIQ classifies performance into six tiers, most to least competitive:

• PRO / MINITOUR
• SCRATCH PLAYER
• ELITE AMATEUR
• ADVANCED AMATEUR
• CLUB COMPETITOR
• DEVELOPING PLAYER

Your Recommended Tier is the level where your current scoring profile is most competitive — not necessarily your most ambitious target.

Runs 5,000 simulated scoring scenarios per tier, based on your recent scoring mean, volatility, and pressure-response profile, and reports three figures per tier:

• Tier Threshold Rate — the probability your score lands at or below the tier's cut target. An 81% Tier Threshold Rate at PRO/MINITOUR means your scoring distribution clears that level in roughly 81 of 100 simulated rounds.
• Competitive Margin Rate — the probability of beating the tier target by 2 or more strokes. Always lower than Tier Threshold Rate, since beating a target comfortably is harder than merely clearing it.
• Volatility Breakdown Risk — the probability of a significant collapse (scoring two standard deviations worse than average). Low is good — it means a stable, reliable game.

STRATIQ analyzes how your performance responds to high-stress moments — penalties, double bogeys, missed short putts, difficult holes — and classifies your response pattern as Resilient, Stable, Mixed, or Fragile, alongside a Resilience Index measuring recovery in the shots right after a mistake.

Performance Identity measures how closely your actual results match one of four statistical playing profiles: Disciplined, Clutch, Consistent, or Aggressive. Your Alignment Score (0–100%) reflects how well your results match your selected identity's expectations; when alignment drops, practice plans may include identity-reinforcement drills. This section needs 5 logged rounds before it activates, and you can reset your alignment score to start fresh from the identity-change dialog if you want a clean baseline.

1. Set Time Available — 45, 60 (recommended), 90, or 120 minutes.
2. Set your Skill Level — Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.
3. Set Days Until Tournament — 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, or 1 month. This is the pre-tournament lever: the closer your tournament, the more of your session shifts toward pressure-simulation work.
4. Tap Generate Practice Plan (or Regenerate once you already have one).

Every plan is built from four layers, and their minutes always sum exactly to your selected Time Available:

• Layer 1: Structural Work — a fixed Decision Rules Protocol drill addressing decision discipline and penalty avoidance.
• Layer 2: Reactive Drills — chosen dynamically from your single biggest statistical weakness (penalties, double bogeys, three-putts, GIR, scrambling, or FIR, ranked by severity and impact).
• Layer 3: Pressure Simulation — training under simulated competitive stress; this is the layer that grows as your tournament gets closer.
• Layer 4: Maintenance — a fixed routine and tempo drill.

With fewer than 5 recent rounds (or no baseline yet), STRATIQ caps how hard the plan reacts to your weakest stat, so a thin sample doesn't overcorrect the whole session. Beginners get a few extra minutes shifted from Reactive back to Structural; advanced players get the reverse.

Once generated, the plan is tied to your most recent round and can be saved and worked through as a timed session, with pass/fail or scored results per block. Your results roll up into a Practice Performance Summary covering your last 30 days, visible on the same page under the Progress tab.