Plain-language explainer
The phrase covers very different apps: rangefinders that read yardage, shot trackers, strategy chatbots, and round journals that learn your patterns. Here is what the category means, what to check before trusting one, and where MyCaddie fits.
Last updated August 9, 2026
The category
An AI golf caddie is an app that plays part of the role a human caddie would: suggesting a club, framing hole strategy, or turning your past rounds into advice for the next one. Apps in this category automate different pieces of that job.
Use club sensors or phone GPS to record every shot automatically, then build stats from the recorded data. Usually paired with hardware you buy.
Answer questions about a hole or a club choice with a language model. Answers can be fluent and still wrong, because the model generates them rather than computing them.
Tell you how far you are from the green — usually the front, the center, and the back — so you can pick a club. This is the piece MyCaddie does first.
Keep a journal of what actually happened in your rounds, then turn confirmed notes into patterns: where strokes leak, which clubs overlap, what to practice. MyCaddie does this too, in the browser.
Buyer's checklist
Ask whether the recommendation path is deterministic (the same inputs always produce the same output) or generated by a language model. Both can be useful; only one is repeatable and checkable.
Good course data carries its source, date, and license. Be wary of apps that cannot say where their maps and yardages came from or when they were last reviewed.
Your rounds are your history. Check whether the app stores data on your device, who can see your rounds, and whether sharing is opt-in.
Where MyCaddie fits
MyCaddie is a golf GPS rangefinder. Stand anywhere on the hole and the iPhone app reads how far you are from the front of the green, the center, and the back. Alongside it, two free browser tools: Bag Builder sorts your club lofts, flags overlaps within one degree and names the open slots, and Quick Log records a round hole by hole and keeps it as a journal.
Three courses are built into the iPhone app: West Seattle Golf Course, Jackson Park Golf Course, and Gold Mountain (Olympic Course), all around Puget Sound. They are stored on the phone, so the back nine works the same as the front with no signal. Anywhere else, each hole shows its distances measured from the mapped tee, labelled as a preview rather than a live reading.
The iPhone app is free on the App Store. Bag Builder and Quick Log work in this browser right now, with no account.
MyCaddie does not record your shots for you, does not offer AI chat, and does not carry a nationwide course database. The advice is worked out by rules, not written by a language model — it is not a club fitting, a yardage guarantee, or a score promise, and it never replaces the pin position you can see and your own judgment.
Course packages come from dated, checked-in OpenStreetMap snapshots with source element ids, attribution, and license metadata. Course-prep panels are labeled planning aids and stay review-required until validated.
Bag, golfer settings, and drafts live in browser storage. Sign-in is passwordless, and each golfer chooses whether their journal is public or private — public sharing is opt-in.
It sits in the category, but the name oversells the machinery. The advice is worked out by rules, not written by a language model, so the same inputs always produce the same answer. The main thing it does is measure yardage.
No. It reads the distance to the green from where you stand. It does not record your shots, and it needs no club sensors — the journal keeps the notes you enter yourself.
Nothing on this site is for sale. Bag Builder and Quick Log are free with no account, public journals are readable without signing in, and the iPhone app will be free too.
No. MyCaddie is published by Nymrel at my-caddie.com and is not affiliated with Sleeper, Arccos, 18Birdies, SwingU, caddiehq.com, mycaddie.co.uk, or similarly named mobile apps.