Keep Golf Stats to Lower Scores, Golf Pro Tips

Learn Your Golf Mistakes, Improve Golf Tactics, Save Golf Shots

Apr 24, 2009

An accurate golf stats record of how you compile a golf score will help highlight weaknesses on the golf course and save you shots. How to learn from your golf stats.

Golf is a very deceptive game. Quite often a player can walk off the eighteenth green, after a three putt, and end up blaming his putting for a bad round. But by keeping an accurate record of what actually happened, it’s quite possible to find there was another reason for the poor score.

What are Golf Stats

The words stats is an abbreviation of the word statistics and nearly every professional golfer uses them to highlight scoring errors. It is a record of how a score is compiled giving a breakdown of every department of the game.

After every round, a professional will make a note of all the shots he’s hit and where he’s hit them, so that, after analysis, he make target the weaknesses for extra practise.

But not only professionals can benefit from seeing how a score is compiled in black and white. With a simple stats sheet, all amateur golfers would be given a clearer picture of their faults and strengths. Analysed correctly the information can improve tactics and help lower scores.

Shots to Record on Stat Sheet

A stats sheet can be very complicated or quite simple, but following is the fundamental information you need to record.

A more detailed record, that a professional might keep, would involve recording where the ball ended on each fairway or green. The speed of the greens, the weather conditions, and importantly how close to the hole the ball ended when pitching from 100yards, 80 yards and 60 yards.

Highlight Weaknesses

Lets take, for example, a twelve handicap golfer. Perhaps he’s tried to lower his scores in the monthly medal and has hit endless balls on the range trying to cure the slice that lets him down when he hits a driver.

But a good stats sheet would show him that although he missed fairways, he still hit six green in regulation. That is the amount of greens a twelve handicap player should hit!

In turn the stats would show what happened on the holes where he missed the greens. How many times did he get up and down in two from just off the green? Did he leave the ball in any bunkers? How many three putts did he have?

This information should help to target the departments that really need work. In this case much more emphasis on the short game.

Improve Tactics to Save Shots

There is nothing more annoying for a professional than to keep making the same mistakes. But it should be the same for a club golfer. Using a stats sheet to paint a true and honest picture of the way you compile a score, will make you tactically more astute, in turn allowing you to score with maximum efficiency.

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