Direction Control Tracker – My Golf Works

Use the Direction Control tracker to record if you missed a target on the left or on the right. The target that you configure is a circle of a size that is of a programmable percentage of the distance that you are away from the center of that circle.

This tracker is most commonly used during short game practice from the bunker or when chipping/pitching onto the practice green from within 100 yards of a target.

Configuration

In order to be able to add and configure trackers for topics, you must be able to create your own practice topics. Creating practice topics is a feature that is only available for Premium subscribers.

This tracker has the following configuration options:

Property	Value	Purpose
Ball Count	Required Defaults to 10	The number of balls to hit.
Distance Factor	Defaults to 15%	Defines the size of the target circle as a percentage of the distance from the center of that circle.
Fixed Distance	Default OFF When ON, defaults to 150	A fixed distance to the center of the target. The size of the target will be 15% of this distance and will be constant for the tracker.
Random Distance (Min)	Default OFF Minimum number of yards when ON	A minimum random distance for each ball. The size of the target will be 15% of the random number between this maximum and the maxim and will change as new numbers are generated.
Random Distance (Max)	Default OFF Maximum number of yards when ON	A maximum random distance for each ball. The size of the target will be 15% of the random number between the minimum and this maximum and will change as new numbers are generated.
Ball Timer	Default OFF Number of seconds when ON	A countdown timer to use for hitting each ball. Entry into the tracker is disabled unless the timer is at zero.
Club Sequencing	(optional)	Define a sequence of clubs to use, including random club selection.
Random Shape	Default OFF	Randomly specify a shot shape for each ball.
Random Trajectory	Default OFF	Randomly specify a shot trajectory for each ball.
Random Ball Position	Default OFF	Randomly specify the position to place the ball within your stance.
Random Aim Direction	Default OFF	Randomly select a target direction to aim at on the driving range for each ball.

Usage

The image below shows what the Direction Control tracker looks like when in use on a session topic with every configurable feature enabled.

The information blocks in order are:

HIT IN -- This is the ball timer.
BALLS -- Indicates how many balls total are intended to be hit.
REMAIN -- Indicates how many balls remain to be hit. This is a button that can be used to increase the number of balls to hit during the session.
YDS -- Indicates how many yards away the target is. In this case, the tracker was configured with a fixed yardage of 150. If it were configured with a random yardage, this value would change after each shot, match appropriately with a randomly selected club (if applicable) and be a button so that you can elect to have it generate a different yardage.
TARGET -- Indicates the diameter of the target.
SHAPE -- Indicates what shot shape to attempt. In this case it is "str8" (abbreviation for "straight") but it may also be draw or fade.
TRAJ -- Indicates what trajectory to attempt which can be high, mid, or low.
BALL -- Indicates what position to place the ball in your stance which can be front, ahead, nom (for nominal), mid, back, or behind.
AIM -- Indicates which direction (or target) to aim at which can be front, left or right.

Below the information blocks is where the club choice would be. This block will only show if the club sequencer is used.

Next are the buttons where you record if you missed the target on the left, missed the target on the right, or your ball came to rest within the target circle.

The final section shows a running tally of results. For this tracker, it shows:

STRUCK -- The total number of balls struck.
LEFT -- The percentage of balls that missed to target on the left.
TARGET -- The percentage of balls that hit the target.
RIGHT -- The percentage of balls that missed the target on the right.

There is also 1 tool button in the top right corner.

Curled Arrow -- Undo the last entry and give a ball back. Use this to change if the results of the shot in case the wrong button was pushed.