Here's what SimSights does with a full session.

The Big Picture

Your 8-iron data tells a clear story: you have solid mechanics and good speed, but your clubface is doing its own thing from shot to shot. That face angle swinging from -1.6° to +8.7° is the single biggest variable in your game right now. When you control the face, you hit gems like Shot 9 (153 yards, centered strike, slight draw, perfect stopping spin). When the face gets away from you, you're hitting shots 29 feet right of target. Stabilizing your clubface at impact would transform your short iron play from "good enough" to genuinely scoring.

What Your Data Shows

Your swing has a consistent signature: the club approaches the ball from inside the target line (averaging about 5° inside-out), and you deliver the club with a slightly ascending strike. That path is remarkably stable — only ±1.2° variation — which is actually a strength. The problem is your face is all over the map (±3.4° variation), nearly three times as inconsistent as your path.

Here's what jumps out when comparing your best and worst:

Your best shots (1, 5, 8, 9) share three things: face angle under 2° in either direction, centered contact, and ball speeds over 103 mph. Shot 9 is your blueprint — face at +3.2° with only -1.0° face-to-path created a controlled draw that started just right and came back. You carried it 153 yards with nearly 4,900 rpm of spin. That's textbook.

Your worst shots (2, 3, 6, 11) tell a different story. Shot 2 had decent mechanics but struck the ball nearly half an inch high on the face — that killed your smash factor (1.22) and you lost 46 yards of carry. Shot 11 had an 8.7° open face, sending it almost 30 feet right despite decent contact. Shot 3 caught the ball low and toe-ward, dropping spin to just 2,262 rpm — that ball was never going to hold a green.

The standout: Shot 6 is fascinating. You had your most inside-out path of the session (+7.6°) combined with your second-most open face (+7.7°), meaning face-to-path was basically zero. The ball flew dead straight — no curve at all — but started way right and stayed there. This shows your face is the steering wheel, not your path.

Speed and Distance

You're swinging at a consistent 72-74 mph, which is solid for a 9-handicap. Your potential is showing up in shots like 1 and 9, where you hit 1.45-1.46 smash factor and carried 153-157 yards. But your average smash factor of 1.39 means you're leaving about 7-8 yards on the table from strike quality alone.

The culprit is contact location. Your impact offset varies by ±7.7mm — that's about a third of an inch wandering across the face. Your impact height varies even more. Without swinging any harder, you could add 5-10 yards just by finding the center more consistently.

Direction and Consistency

Your average side deviation is 5.7 feet right, but that ±13.4 feet variation is the real issue. Some shots finish left, some finish 29 feet right.

The pattern: when your face gets more than 5° open, you miss big right (shots 6, 7, 11). When your face is square or slightly closed, you hit controlled draws that work back toward target (shots 1, 5, 8). Your inside-out path wants to hit a draw — you just need the face to cooperate.

Your Game Plan

• •First Focus — Face Control: Before your next range session, try this: hit 10 shots at 70% effort focusing only on where the face points at impact. Your path is trustworthy; the face needs to match. Shots 4, 6, 7, and 11 all had face angles over +5° — that's your miss pattern to eliminate.
• •Second Focus — Strike Location: Use foot spray or impact tape. You're hitting toe-side and low-face more than you realize. Shot 3's -13.6mm offset and -21mm height killed your spin and distance. Center contact fixes multiple problems at once.
• •Third Focus — Slight Descending Strike: Your +1.0° average attack angle isn't terrible, but getting it to -1° or -2° would optimize your spin loft for this club. Shots 9 and 10 (your only negative or near-zero attack angles) had your best spin numbers. Feel like you're "covering" the ball rather than scooping it.