How It Works
A walkthrough of the BogeyHunter Desktop experience
Quick start: Run the installer, double-click the desktop shortcut. You're swinging in under two minutes.
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 three cameras: face-on, down-the-line, and overhead
- 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
Swing detection uses three independent sensors — the face-on camera watches for a ball leaving the hit zone, an optional microphone listens for impact, and the down-the-line camera validates actual ball flight. A clip is only committed when at least two of those three agree inside a 500 ms window, which is how commercial launch monitors avoid false positives from club-grounding and practice swings. The pipeline extracts over 40 biomechanical metrics from the saved clip, including spatial depth measurements, with AI-powered fault detection. Enable Audio Cues for a hands-free experience: a chime tells you the system is ready, and a beep confirms each captured swing.
3. Review Captured Swings
After capture, each detected swing appears as a thumbnail. For each swing, choose:
- Keep — mark for analysis
- Trim — adjust start/end frames if auto-detection included extra motion
- Discard — remove bad swings or practice swings you don't want tracked
4. Analyze on the Dashboard
The Dashboard is the main analysis hub with four panels:
Video Panel
- Dual-camera synchronized playback
- Body tracking overlay — see your joint positions frame by frame
- P-position scrubber — jump to Address (P1), Top (P4), Impact (P7)
- Camera toggle (face-on / down-the-line)
Metrics Panel
- over 40 metric cards organized by category: Setup, Rotation, Timing, Spatial, Overhead, Trends
- 10-swing history trend charts
- Click any metric card to ask Coach Mulligan about it
Chat Panel
- Real-time AI coaching from Coach Mulligan
- Context-aware: sees your metrics and coaching history
- Voice toggle for spoken coaching
- 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 evaluates your metrics, identifies faults in priority order, and recommends specific drills. You can also click Review Session 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
- Full session review 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 you use a golf simulator with a launch monitor, BogeyHunter provides real-time AI coaching during your sim sessions by combining ball flight data with camera-based swing analysis:
- Auto-coach mode delivers coaching after every shot
- Shot data: ball speed, carry, spin, club path, face angle
- Camera integration adds visual observations (stance width, casting, head sway)
- D-plane analysis: face-to-path relationship, dynamic loft, attack angle
- Full round statistics and pattern detection
Both modes use the same AI, same coaching curriculum, and same long-term 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 export and shareable 30-day links
- Coach Mulligan's handicap estimate based on your biomechanical data