Siri Help: log putts by voice
Your hands are on the putter and your phone is in your pocket. Say it through your AirPods and Lagr logs the putt. Siri tells you what was recorded, so you know it's right without looking.
Every phrase says “Lagr”
Apple requires an app's name in each Siri phrase, so “Hey Siri, log a miss” won't reach Lagr. “Hey Siri, log a miss in Lagr” will. Nothing needs setting up: the phrases work as soon as Lagr is installed.
The commands
| Say | What happens |
|---|---|
| “Let's golf with Lagr” | Opens Lagr on your log tool. Choose which one in Settings → Siri Configuration → Log Tool Default. |
| “Let's start a Challenge in Lagr” | Opens Training Challenges and asks which one you'd like to play. |
| “Lagr holed it” “Log a hole in Lagr” | Logs a holed putt from your current distance. |
| “Lagr missed it” “Log a miss in Lagr” | Siri asks how far from the hole it finished, then logs the miss. |
| “Lagr gimme” “Gimme in Lagr” | Concedes a short one: when your last miss finished within six inches (15 cm if you use metric), it counts as holed. Turn Gimme on first, in Settings → Siri Configuration. |
| “Set my distance in Lagr” “Change my start in Lagr” | Siri asks how far the putt is, and your next putts are logged from there. On Course Green it starts the next ball. |
| “New ball in Lagr” Premium | On Course Green, starts the next ball — finish or pick up the one you're following first. On the other logs, Siri points you to “Set my distance” instead. |
| “Lagr, switch putter” “Switch putter in Lagr” | Siri reads out the putters in your bag; the one you pick is used for the putts you log next. |
| “Lagr, mulligan” | Takes back your last putt. Siri tells you which one it removed. |
| “Lagr, where am I?” | Tells you where you stand without logging anything — on Course Green, which ball and which putt you're on. |
| “Lagr, picked up” “Lagr, abandoned” Premium | On Course Green, ends the ball you're following. Its putts are kept, but a ball you pick up doesn't count as holed out. (A gimme is different — it holes the ball out with a conceded putt.) |
| “End my session in Lagr” | Ends your session at your last putt. If a ball is still in play, Siri asks first. |
The logging phrases follow your Log Tool Default. On Course Green, “Lagr missed it” logs the next putt of the ball you're following, and Siri tells you where your next putt is from — “Putt 2 from 4 feet.”
Siri answers with what it logged and your running count — “Holed from 20 feet. That's 4 putts.” If a putt starts a new session, Siri says that first. While a challenge is running, log on the challenge screen so every ball counts toward its station.
Swing analysis by voice Premium
Siri can run the steps of a swing analysis while your hands stay on the putter. One thing it can’t do is film from your pocket: iOS runs the camera only for the app on screen, so set your phone up on its tripod, facing you, with Lagr open.
| Say | What happens |
|---|---|
| “Start swing analysis in Lagr” “Analyze my putt in Lagr” “Lagr swing analysis” | Opens Lagr on swing analysis, ready to film one putt. Siri says “Opening swing analysis. Set your phone up facing you, then tap Start.” |
| “Lagr start” “Start in Lagr” | On the set-up screen, starts the wait for you to be in frame, then films. Siri says “Starting. Take your address.” If the camera isn’t ready yet, it says so and you try again. |
| “Lagr accept” “Accept in Lagr” | After you have watched the clip, keeps it. Siri says “Accepted. Now log the putt.” Log the putt as usual — “Lagr holed it” or “Lagr missed it” — and the swing goes with it. |
| “Lagr another putt” “Another putt in Lagr” | Once the putt is logged, gets ready for the next one. |
| “Lagr finished” “Finished in Lagr” | Ends swing analysis and the session. If a putt hasn’t been logged yet, Siri asks first. |
There is no “stop”: filming ends by itself after your putt, so Siri is never asked to act while the camera is recording. If you say a step that doesn’t fit where you are — “Lagr accept” before there is a clip, say — Siri tells you what to do instead and nothing happens. A spoken putt logged before you have accepted the clip is refused with “Accept the clip, then log the putt.” Start, accept, another putt and finished also have a few natural variants, such as “keep it” for accept and “next putt” for another putt.
The steps are written out, with pictures, in App Help.
Place where a miss finished Premium
Telling Lagr how far a miss finished is free. With Premium you can also say where it finished, so your Speed and Line are measured and the ball lands on your leave map. There are three ways to say it. Try one:
You say “”
- From the hole
- Long or short
- Left or right
- Angle
Three ways to say it
- Long or short, then left or right — the exact spot
- “3 feet 6 inches long, 6 feet left.” Either half can come first, and either can be left out for a ball straight along a line: “4 feet long”.
- About — the quick way
- “Long left, about 3 feet.” The ball goes 3 feet out on the diagonal halfway between long and left. Use one word for straight along a line: “short, about 2 feet”.
- Distance and angle
- “4 feet, 30 degrees short left.” Name long or short, then left or right, and an angle from 1 to 89 degrees.
Reading an angle
An angle is measured from the long or short line you name, turning toward the side you name. It never passes 90 degrees, so the same number always means the same tilt. With long at the top of the green:
A ball straight long, straight short or straight to one side has no angle to give. Say it as a distance instead — “4 feet long”, “3 feet right”. Siri won't take 0 or 90 degrees.
How Lagr rounds what you say
Every distance you say is rounded to your accuracy setting, the same steps the buttons on screen move in. Inches and centimetres are optional.
| Accuracy | You say | Lagr logs |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 ft | 3 inches | 6 inches |
| 0.5 ft | 2 inches | 0 inches |
| 0.5 ft | 3 feet 8 inches | 3 feet 6 inches |
| 1 inch | 3 feet 7 inches | 3 feet 7 inches |
| Metric, 0.15 m | 0.4 meters | 0.45 meters |
| Metric, 0.05 m | 1.32 meters | 1.30 meters |
When Siri can't log it
Siri says “I'm unable to log that value, try again” and asks again. Nothing is logged. That happens when:
- the distance is 0, or rounds to 0 at your accuracy setting (a putt that finished 0 feet away went in);
- the ball finished further away than your Longest distance setting;
- an angle is 0, 90 or more.
Premium by voice
Placing the ball, swing analysis, Course Green and Practice Green, and every challenge beyond the free three are part of Lagr Premium. If you ask Siri for one of them without Premium, Siri offers to show you the plans. Buying happens on your phone's screen, where you confirm it.