Understanding & Optimizing Shot Strategy Using the ShotSense App featuring Brent Neville

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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GS#1020 Our guest this week is Brent Neville, creator of the ShotSense app, which aims to revolutionize how golfers approach the game. After establishing how crowded the golf technology landscape has become, we discuss the importance of playing smarter, and how ShotSense leverages modern computing to provide tailored strategies for golfers of all skill levels. Brent explains the app's unique features, including club characteristics, geospatial analysis, and elevation considerations, making it a valuable tool. No matter how many times we've discussed the importance of strategic decision-making in golf, it's never enough! Here we emphasize how understanding expected scores and golf intelligence can significantly improve a golfer's performance. The ShotSense app, which aims to provide golfers with optimal strategies for each shot, focuses on simplifying the decision-making process on the course while also planning ahead for better performance. This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options. For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ron Galen from Longmode, Massachusetts, and I play at Longmadow Country Club.
0:08.8	Welcome to Golf Smarter.
0:10.3	Hi, this is Susanna McGee from Sarasota, Florida.
0:14.1	I play golf at the Preserve Golf Club at Tara in Bradenton, and this is Golf Smarter, number 120. Welcome.
0:25.6	An average golfer isn't using a yardage book. Probably doesn't know how to read the contour lines
0:29.8	or the elevations. Our goal is to provide them a prescriptive answer that says before you hit
0:36.0	this T shot, here's the aim point. Not to say replace
0:38.9	charge books, maybe a different use case. And then what we've heard from a lot of folks is
0:43.4	building intuition to play smart is really difficult in golf if you don't play with a lot of
0:48.8	really good players. If you're a 15 handicap and you don't play with a lot of great golfers,
0:53.9	how do you know you shouldn't shortside yourself? How do you know maybe you should take this different line? You just don't. And so people have used shot sense and have seen, okay, it keeps angling me over here. Why is that? Like, okay, there's water over here. I need to shift it over this way. The pins over here. Why is it
1:10.9	keeps saying aimed towards the fat part of the green? Now I'm better understanding this. One thing
1:15.5	we get really comfortable with is the range finder of zapping the pin, it's 162, and you're
1:20.4	like, all right, like maybe I'll take a yard off and a yard to the left. We can do better within
1:24.9	that now that we have all of this data.
1:38.9	Understanding and optimizing strategy for every shy, using the Shot Sense app featuring Brent Neville.
1:41.0	This is Golf Smarter.
1:47.0	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:49.6	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:52.3	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Brent.
1:55.2	Thanks, Fred.
1:55.9	Happy to be here.
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