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Caddora Golf finds the shots you are leaving out there.

Caddora Golf is an iPhone app that reads a golfer's scorecards, swing analysis and range sessions together, then says the one thing to work on next — measured against golfers of the same handicap and sex, not a tour average. It is in private beta, and it is made in Ireland by John Sheehy.

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Last updated 17 September 2026

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Name
Caddora Golf
What it is
A golf improvement app. It reads your scorecards, swing analysis and range sessions together and tells you the one thing to work on next.
Platform
iPhone (iPhone 12 or newer during the beta)
Status
Private beta. Invite-only, distributed through Apple's TestFlight. Not yet on the App Store.
Price
Free tier with no time limit — it is not a trial. One Premium Pass at €12.99 a month or €89.99 a year. These are launch prices: nothing is charged yet, and beta testers use everything free.
Benchmarks
Golfers of your handicap and sex, and your age group for distance. Not a tour average.
Maker
John Sheehy, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Company
Caddora (caddora.ie), an AI business studio in Ireland
Press contact
[email protected]

What's different

Not another place to log a score.

It diagnoses, not just records

Scorecards, swings and range numbers feed one profile. Caddora Coach ranks what is costing shots — greens in regulation, penalty strokes, fairways — and says which to work on first.

Measured against golfers like you

Every plan carries a benchmark drawn from golfers of the same handicap and sex, so a twelve-handicapper is not held to a tour player's numbers. A fault clears from the plan once the benchmark is reached.

Recording is free. Reading it is the pass.

Rounds, bag and swings stay free and stay yours whether you pay or not. One Premium Pass unlocks the interpretation — no Plus and Pro tiers to choose between.

How it works

Capture → Understand → Practise → Improve

Scan a paper scorecard or enter a round hole by hole. Record a swing on the phone and Caddora measures it. Type in the numbers from a launch monitor once.

On the course, the caddie gives plays-like yardage, wind and temperature, and the club your own carry data backs. Afterwards, Caddora Coach ranks where the shots are going and picks the drill.

  1. 01

    Capture

    Rounds, swings and range work feed one profile.

    A captured swing with its spine angle measured against the recommended range
  2. 02

    Understand

    One fault traced from swing to range to course.

    The Opportunities screen: 3.7 shots a round on the table, the fault currently being worked on, and the three to work on ranked by what each is worth
  3. 03

    Practise

    Drills chosen by what your own numbers say.

    The drill for Lead Knee Buckle — half swings with the lead leg firm, what it should feel like, and a Re-test button to film it again
  4. 04

    Improve

    Proof the change is holding, swing by swing.

    The Progress tab for Lead Knee Buckle. How often the fault was found in each driver session over a fortnight: 33 per cent on 8 Sep, 25 per cent on 11 Sep, 20 per cent on 15 Sep, 11 per cent on 18 Sep, 7 per cent on 21 Sep — 26 points down since 8 Sep. Underneath, the session it was found in each time: 8 Sep, Driver, 3 of 9; 11 Sep, Driver, 3 of 12; 15 Sep, Driver, 2 of 10; 18 Sep, Driver, 1 of 9; 21 Sep, Driver, 1 of 14. PRIORITY 2Room to ImproveLead Knee BuckleProblemDrillProgressNext check-inRecord a few more swings — that is whenlead knee buckle is measured again.How often it showed up,Driver−26 points since 8 Sep33%8 Sep9 swings7%21 Sep14 swingsEach point is the share of that session's swingsthe fault was found in.WHERE IT SHOWED UP8 SepDriver3 of 911 SepDriver3 of 1215 SepDriver2 of 1018 SepDriver1 of 921 SepDriver1 of 14

Privacy

Most of it never leaves the phone.

Rounds, scores, bag, range sessions and on-course position are stored on the iPhone and not uploaded. Swing analysis runs on the device. Sharing swing measurements and footage to improve the analysis is a single switch that is on by default and can be turned off at any time, and anything shared is deleted after 7 days.

A scanned scorecard photo is sent only to be read — names and signatures are cut out first where possible — and the photograph is not kept. The free app carries advertising, but no golf data reaches the ad network; the Premium Pass removes ads entirely. The full policy is at caddoragolf.com/privacy.

About Caddora Golf

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Short

Caddora Golf is an iPhone app that reads a golfer's scorecards, swings and range sessions together and says the one thing to work on next, measured against golfers of the same handicap. It is in private beta and made in Ireland by John Sheehy.

Long

Caddora Golf is a golf improvement app for iPhone. It brings together scorecards — scanned from paper or entered hole by hole — swing analysis recorded on the phone, and launch-monitor numbers from the range, then ranks the shots a golfer is losing and the drill to work on first. Every plan is measured against golfers of the same handicap and sex, or age group for distance, rather than a tour average. Recording is free; one Premium Pass unlocks the analysis, at launch prices of €12.99 a month or €89.99 a year. Caddora Golf is currently in a private, invite-only beta on iPhone and is made in Naas, Co. Kildare, by John Sheehy.

Caddora Golf is made by Caddora, an AI business studio in Ireland (caddora.ie).

The maker

John Sheehy

John Sheehy is a senior product leader with a background building and scaling SaaS, AI, healthcare and payments products. He builds Caddora Golf across the full stack: the iOS app, the Supabase backend, and the on-device computer vision behind swing and club analysis. He is based in Naas, Co. Kildare.

John Sheehy on LinkedIn

Coverage

Written about Caddora Golf.

No coverage yet — the beta is private. Get in touch at [email protected].

Press kit

Logos, and a person to ask.

For app screenshots at full resolution, interviews or beta access for review, email [email protected]. It reaches John directly.