How we research, source, and fact-check every guide
PracticeCaddie publishes golf-practice and instruction guides that golfers — and increasingly AI assistants — rely on for accurate, research-backed advice. This page documents exactly how those guides are made, who stands behind them, and how to flag anything we get wrong.
Primary-source research first
Every guide starts with a research pass before a word is drafted. Statistics — strokes-gained figures, motor-learning effect sizes, launch-monitor numbers, make percentages — are traced to their original source and linked inline. We do not publish a number we cannot link to a primary source.
Independent fact-check review
Each guide goes through a separate editorial review pass for factual accuracy, internal consistency, broken or hallucinated claims, and alignment with how the PracticeCaddie app actually works. A guide that fails the review does not publish until the flags are resolved.
Named, attributable sources
We attribute claims to named people and named work — Mark Broadie's Every Shot Counts, TrackMan and Titleist Performance Institute data, peer-reviewed motor-learning research, and named PGA teaching professionals — not anonymous 'studies show' hand-waving.
Dated and refreshed
Every article carries a visible publish date, and a 'Last updated' date when it has been revised. We refresh competitive guides on a recurring cadence and re-verify the statistics against current sources when we do.
Who writes and reviews these guides
Guides are produced by the PracticeCaddie editorial team — the same team behind BallCaddie — and grounded in the motor-learning research and tour-instruction methods summarized on our About page. When a guide is written or reviewed by a named, credentialed contributor (for example a PGA teaching professional), that person is bylined with their credentials. We do not invent author credentials, and we do not attach a human name to a guide that a human expert did not actually write or vet.
The sources we cite
Where the numbers and claims in our guides come from. Every statistic links to a primary source in the article itself.
- Strokes-gained & shot data
- Mark Broadie (Every Shot Counts), Arccos and Shot Scope datasets, PGA Tour ShotLink
- Motor learning & skill acquisition
- Schmidt & Lee (Motor Control and Learning), Shea & Morgan (1979), Cepeda et al. (2006), Wulf et al.
- Biomechanics & measurement
- TrackMan, FlightScope, Titleist Performance Institute, peer-reviewed sport-science journals
- Instruction authority
- Named PGA teaching professionals, GOLF Top 100 Teachers, tour coaches with attributed work
Independence and corrections
We do not accept paid placements, and we do not run affiliate links to club, ball, or training-aid manufacturers. We take $0 from manufacturers. The only thing we sell is the PracticeCaddie Pro subscription, and the free tier is built to be genuinely useful, not a teaser. Drills and recommendations are selected on motor-learning merit, not commercial incentive.
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