Plain-language explainer
The phrase covers very different apps — 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 honestly fits.
Last updated July 11, 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.
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. This is the piece MyCaddie does.
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 free golf memory and round journal. It captures quick hole-by-hole notes, keeps every inferred value editable before you confirm it, and turns confirmed rounds into deterministic debriefs and patterns for the next round. Its Bag Builder sorts your club lofts, flags overlaps within one degree, and highlights large gaps — no club sensors required.
MyCaddie does not offer AI chat, automatic shot tracking, or a launch-quality nationwide course database. The recommendation path is rule-based TypeScript, not a language model — it is not a club fitting, GPS guarantee, or score promise, and it never replaces current course conditions 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 with one honest difference: the advice is computed by deterministic rules, not generated by a language model. The same inputs always produce the same output.
MyCaddie is currently free to use, and public journals are readable without signing in.
No. MyCaddie is published by JalenBuilds at my-caddie.com and is not affiliated with Sleeper, Arccos, 18Birdies, SwingU, caddiehq.com, mycaddie.co.uk, or similarly named mobile apps.