Not at the range. Not in the backyard. Not on the first tee on Saturday morning. So we built something that does.
You play once a week if you're lucky. You'd love to get better. You've watched the videos, you've bought the training aid that's now in the garage, and you've had the lesson where the pro fixed your grip and you hit it great for a fortnight — until the old swing crept back in and nobody was there to tell you.
The honest truth about improving at golf is that it takes feedback, and feedback has always meant one of two things: a coach standing behind you at A$100-plus an hour, or a launch-monitor bay that costs more per session than a round.
Practice without feedback isn't practice. It's just repetition. And if what you're repeating is the sway, the early extension or the over-the-top move, you're getting very good at the wrong thing.
The range is great, but it's a drive away and it's A$20 a bucket. What most of us have is a backyard, a garage, a bit of park across the road, or fifteen minutes in the living room with a short iron and the furniture pushed back.
That's the work-around. SwingCheck reads your body, not the ball. That one decision changes everything: a full swing at nothing in the backyard gives the app exactly the same information as a full swing at a ball on the range. Shoulder turn is shoulder turn. A sway is a sway. Your head dipping is your head dipping — whether or not there's a ball there to be embarrassed by it.
So the ten minutes after work, the Sunday afternoon in the yard, the rainy day in the garage — they all count now. They all come with a coach.
Thirty full swings in the backyard with feedback beats a hundred balls at the range without it. Every time.
You already carry the sensor. A modern phone camera plus on-device body tracking can see the things a coach looks for from the side of the bay — setup, turn, sway, head, tempo, hands at the top. We didn't want you buying a strap, a clip, a mat or a net. Prop the phone up and go.
We also didn't want your video going anywhere. Analysis happens on your phone. The clips stay on your phone. The AI coach, if you switch it on, only ever receives a handful of numbers about the swing. Your Sunday hack in the yard is nobody's business but yours.
Most swing apps hand you a dashboard. Twelve angles, three graphs, a colour-coded skeleton. And you stand there thinking: so what do I do?
A good coach doesn't do that. A good coach watches, picks the one or two things that will actually move the needle, and says them out loud in plain English. That's what SwingCheck does: after every shot, the three fixes that matter most, in order, spoken to you — and you can ask "why?" or "what drill?" like you would with a real person.
Every "perfect swing" chart online was made from people who play golf for a living and stretch for an hour a day. Coaching a 50-year-old with a desk job to a 100° shoulder turn is how people get hurt and give up.
That's why SwingCheck starts with a mobility test. It measures how far you can turn, and sets the targets from that. Good for your body is the goal — not good for someone else's.
SwingCheck is made by MyVanguard in Australia by golfers who wanted it to exist. The wolf on the icon is a reminder of the whole idea: a lone player who still hunts in a pack — you, and a coach that's always there.
Try it for a month, on us. Then A$9.99 a month — less than one bucket of balls. Start 30 days free →
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