Golf already has a score.
YŪGEN gives it a skill tree.
A bucket of balls normally vanishes the moment you leave the range. In YŪGEN it lands: XP earned, skills levelled, a rank climbed, a streak kept. Practice that accumulates into something you can see.
“Show me I'm getting better — not just that I practised.”
That's the whole app. Every range trip, every round, every ten minutes on the putting green becomes evidence — read, scored and banked into a game you can watch yourself win slowly. Not a diary. A progression.
Log it. Get the honest read. Earn it. Watch it grow.
Log what you hit
Snap the launch monitor, plot shots on the range map, or just say how it went. Whatever form your practice takes, there's a way in.
Get the honest read
YŪGEN reads your numbers, flags the likely mishits, and tells you what the session actually says — good news or not.
Earn it
You review the read, drop the shots that shouldn't count, and accept. Only then does the XP land. You stay in control of your own record.
Watch it grow
Skills level, your rank climbs a 24-step ladder, quests complete, the streak holds. The work stops disappearing.
However you practise, it counts
You just hit balls — getting that into the app should take seconds, in whatever form you have it.
Launch-monitor screenshot
TrackMan, Toptracer, Arccos — snap the screen and YŪGEN reads the table for you.
Plot shots on the range
No launch monitor? Tap where each ball finished. Instant scoring, no waiting.
Putting green
Made or missed, distance and lag — short game earns its keep too.
Enter the numbers
Club, carry, a couple of sliders. Ten seconds between swings.
Log a round
9 or 18, your score, the course. Rounds feed the same record.
Voice note
"Driver felt long today, wedges thin." Say it — YŪGEN listens and files it against the right skills.
Guided swing-video capture is built and in testing with early users In testing
Your golf, as a game worth playing
Not points for points' sake — a structure that makes the long, slow work of getting better feel like it's going somewhere.
A real skill tree
Nine skills across four tiers — driving, irons, wedges, short game, putting and more. Each levels on its own evidence, so your strengths and gaps stop being a feeling and become a map.
Ranks & levels
XP rolls up into levels, and levels climb a ladder of 24 rank steps, from Novice upward. Every accepted session moves the needle; the ladder shows exactly how far to the next title.
Quests & achievements
A starter quest chain gets your baseline established, and achievements mark the moments that matter — completed automatically as you play. No claim buttons, no chores.
A streak that fits golf
Golf is seasonal. YŪGEN's streak is built around showing up over the week — not punishing every rain day — and comes with freezes for when life happens. One bad stretch doesn't erase the story.
Yardage book that builds itself
Every logged shot feeds a per-club book: your real carry, your real dispersion, and whether the number in your head matches the number in your bag. In testing
What to practise next
After a read, YŪGEN points at your weakest skill and hands you a drill for it — from a hand-written catalogue, deliberately not AI-generated sludge.
It scores the pattern, not the highlight
Anyone can flush one. YŪGEN rewards doing it again — ten shots held in your window count for more than one screenshot-worthy bomb. Repeatability is the signal that survives the first tee, so repeatability is what earns.
And the read is honest both ways. Likely mishits get flagged, you choose what counts, and when your dispersion widens the app says so — because a tracker that only reports good news is a tracker you stop believing. That honesty is exactly why levelling up feels earned.
One range trip, one story.
Start a session and everything you capture for the next hour is kept together — screenshots, plotted shots, notes. When you're done, YŪGEN compiles the recap: per-club numbers, the trend, and what moved. Your practice history becomes something you can actually go back and read.
Something to play for, people to play with
Progress is better with witnesses — and someone just ahead of you on the board.
Leaderboards, four ways
Everyone, Friends, your Club, or your handicap bracket — across boards for progress, streaks and shot quality. Results boards rank what you hit; XP boards reward showing up. Both are stated, so you always know which game you're playing.
Challenges
Rotating community challenges scored automatically from your evidence — best improvement wins, not raw distance. Join, keep practising, and the board takes care of itself.
Friends, quietly
Share your friend code, follow each other's progress, and react with Respect, Fire, Challenge or Rematch. YŪGEN never posts for you and never messages your contacts — bring the people you actually play with.
Your coach can see the practice, not just hear about it.
Link a coach with a QR code and they see your sessions, shots and what moved — so lessons start from evidence, not memory. Access is scoped to your practice only, every look is logged, and you can revoke it in one tap. Early access
Practice with intent.
YŪGEN turns scattered reps into a story of getting better.
App Store link coming soonYŪGEN is an iPhone app. There's no Android version yet — we'd rather say so here than have you search a store for nothing.