Our Story

I wanted to turn pro.

Not in the way most club golfers say it after a good round. I mean I actually tried. I built my life around it. Every round measured. Every practice session structured. Every weakness tracked, targeted, and worked on until it wasn’t a weakness anymore.

I started out averaging 101 off a 22 handicap. I got to +2.1, and my best rounds were in the 60s. And along the way I built a system — not because I wanted to sell something, but because I needed a way to measure what was actually working and what wasn’t.

That system is The Grand Plan.

What I Learned on the Way Down

The biggest thing I learned wasn’t a swing tip. It was this: most golfers have no idea where they actually lose shots.

They blame their driver. Their putting. Their nerves. But when you track the numbers — really track them — the answers are almost never where you’d expect. Course management. Short game decisions. Green reading. The stuff that doesn’t show up on the range but shows up on every scorecard.

I didn’t drop from a 22 to +2.1 by hitting it further. I dropped by making better decisions with the game I already had.

The Notebook Became a Book

I started writing it all down. Course management rules. Green reading methods. Which stats actually predicted scores and which ones were noise.

I shared it with mates. One of them dropped 5 shots in six weeks without changing a thing about his swing. He just stopped making stupid decisions.

These days I play about twice a month. No range sessions. In 2024 I played just 25 rounds and averaged 77, and I’m on 0.9 today — still around scratch, because the system is about decisions, not hours of practice.

You don’t need to get to scratch. But if you play once a month and want to break 90, or drop 3 strokes this season, the same idea works: play, log, fix the one thing.

I turned the notebook into a book.

The Green Maps

The book taught golfers how to think. But thinking only gets you so far if you don’t know the course.

So I started mapping greens by hand. Every slope, every tier, every drainage point. The kind of information tour caddies carry in their yardage books — made available to club golfers.

Suddenly, a three-putt wasn’t bad luck. It was a predictable result of not knowing the green slopes hard from back-left.

“If you don’t know where the green slopes, you’re guessing. And guessing is not a plan.”

The Evolution

The book and maps proved the concept: golfers who had better information made better decisions. But paper has its limits.

That led to fitness and practice plans — structured routines built around the areas each golfer’s stats said they needed most. And from there, it was a natural step to build the app: a platform where golfers could track rounds, log stats, and see exactly where their game stood.

The Grand Plan Today

Today, The Grand Plan is the same system I built to chase a plus handicap — made simple for club golfers. You just play and log your rounds. The app does the thinking. Practice is optional. The core idea hasn’t changed:

You don’t need a better swing. You need a better plan.