How It Works
A walkthrough of the BogeyHunter Desktop experience
Quick start: Run the installer, follow the setup wizard to place your cameras and set your hit zone, then start swinging. On first launch, BogeyHunter downloads about 12.5 GB of AI models and GPU libraries, so give that one-time step a little time. The install guide walks through each step and what’s normal; see the requirements for hardware details.
1. Create a Golfer Profile
On first launch, you land on the Profile Select page. Create your profile with:
- Name and handedness (required)
- Height, handicap, age, years playing (optional but recommended)
- Typical miss — slice, hook, fade, draw (helps Coach Mulligan focus coaching)
The more profile data you provide, the better Coach Mulligan can personalize coaching. Multiple golfers can share the same machine — each gets separate sessions, metrics history, and coaching memory.
2. Capture Your Swings
Navigate to Capture from the sidebar:
- Position your two swing cameras (face-on and down-the-line), plus the optional overhead camera
- Using a wide-angle M12 lens? Pick its correction profile in Setup
- Use the live preview to verify positioning. Click Swap Cameras if the swing cameras are reversed
- Select your club from the dropdown
- Click Start Capture — recording begins
- Hit as many shots as you like
- Click Stop Capture
In the default Auto mode, the face-on camera watches your hit zone and an impact microphone confirms the strike. A swing is saved when the face-on hit-zone event is confirmed within half a second. No microphone? The hit-zone event alone triggers the capture. Optional Fusion mode adds down-the-line ball-flight validation as an extra check.
Every saved swing is analyzed automatically: over 20 swing metrics from the face-on camera, 6 rotation and alignment metrics if you have an overhead camera, and AI-powered fault detection. Enable Audio Cues and a tone plus a spoken cue tell you the system is ready, and a beep confirms each captured swing. Want help with your setup? Turn on live address feedback for spoken setup cues before you swing.
3. Review Captured Swings
After capture, each detected swing appears as a thumbnail, already analyzed. For each swing, you can:
- Trim — adjust start/end frames if auto-detection included extra motion
- Delete — remove bad swings or practice swings you don't want tracked
4. Analyze on the Dashboard
The Dashboard is the main analysis hub:
Video Panel
- Swing playback with a camera toggle (face-on / down-the-line)
- Body tracking overlay — see your joint positions frame by frame
- P-position scrubber — jump to Address (P1), Top (P4), Impact (P7)
Metrics Panel
- Metric cards organized in tabs: Key, Address, Rotation, Timing, Overhead, Trends
- 10-swing trend charts
- Click any metric card to ask Coach Mulligan about it
Chat Panel
- AI coaching from Coach Mulligan, running locally on your PC
- Context-aware: sees your metrics and coaching history
- Voice input and spoken coaching, both processed on your PC
- Coaching notes toggle shows stored long-term memories
5. Get Coaching
Coach Mulligan reviews your swings and delivers personalized coaching. Two ways to get coached:
Ask Coach (Camera Only)
After analyzing a swing, click Ask Coach to send it for review. Coach Mulligan reviews your metrics, with key frames of the swing (address, top, impact, and finish) shown next to the analysis, identifies faults in priority order, and recommends specific drills. You can also click Ask Coach for a session note on the Sessions page to get an assessment of your entire practice session — patterns, improvement trends, and what to work on next.
- One-click swing review from the Analysis page
- Session notes with consistency and trend analysis
- Personalized fault diagnosis and drill recommendations
- Click View Training Plan after coaching to start practicing drills
Live Coaching (With Launch Monitor)
If your launch monitor sends shots to GSPro via OpenConnect, BogeyHunter can coach you during sim sessions by combining ball flight data with camera-based swing analysis. Setup is a one-time port setting in GSPro. Tested with Uneekor; other OpenConnect launch monitors should be compatible but are not yet tested (see the launch monitor list).
- Auto-coach mode delivers coaching after every shot
- Shot data: ball speed, carry, spin, club path, face angle
- Camera integration adds a quick head-sway check after each shot
- D-plane coaching from your launch monitor's data: face-to-path relationship and attack angle, plus your dynamic loft for each shot
- Full round statistics and pattern detection
Both modes use the same AI, same coaching curriculum, and same coaching memory. Camera-only coaching is on-demand; launch monitor coaching is automatic after every shot.
6. Track Your Progress
- Sessions page shows past practice sessions grouped by date and club
- Load any session on the dashboard to review
- PDF report export
- Export all your data, any time, even after your trial ends
- A rough handicap estimate on your dashboard, based on your swing metrics