Welcome to the Wandering Golf blog.

This is the first post on the Wandering Golf blog, a quick map of what this space is for. More substantial posts land as the beta grows.

What we will write here

Three rough buckets, in roughly the order they will get written.

Engineering and AI. How we built the MCP server. How the post-round recap is built and tuned. The architecture of two-phase shot tracking on the Apple Watch.

Practice. Drill content. Reading launch monitor data. Club gapping with examples. Dispersion targets that actually move handicap. The kind of practice content most golfers do not have access to because they do not own a launch monitor or do not know what to look at when they do.

Play. On-course strategy. Course management. Scoring patterns over time. The mental game. The kind of post-round insight an AI coach with your actual data can surface but that golf magazines cannot.

Updates (this one). Release notes. Feature drops. Roadmap nudges. The build-in-public lane.

Why a blog

Two reasons.

One: SEO and AI-search compounding. We launched a public help center at /help with a deep handicap explainer and a full MCP tool reference. The blog extends that surface into the long tail of golf and golf-tech queries. Months from now, when someone asks ChatGPT about WHS handicap math or how to read launch monitor smash factor, we want our answer to be the citation.

Two: building in public works for us. The blog is where the build process becomes legible to people who care about the same things we care about.

What is not here yet

Most of it. This is launch infrastructure. Real posts start landing as the beta expands.