Track Your Stats to Lower Your Scores, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Track Your Stats to Lower Your Scores, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

It is fair to say that you have only a certain amount of time in everyday or in every week to practice and dedicate to your golf. So it is really important to use that time efficiently when you practice the things that your skills are lacking in. Let us say you practice your weakest areas first, that would help you improve. Don’t just go and practice the things that you are good at. Practice the things you need to improve. Which areas do you think you need to improve? This is where looking at your stats can really help you out. By understanding your stats and understanding your strengths and weaknesses, you will start to find areas of your game that need the practice the most. So anytime you watch it on the TV, the caption always comes out about him is hit this many greens and this many fairways. Now over the course of 1 round, that might not give you too much of a true picture; but certainly, over the course of the tournament, over 4 days or a week or a month or certainly a year, you can start to see where your strengths and where your weakness arte and which areas you need to improve on.

So the simple stats that you might be able to calculate yourself even from memory over the last round or 2 of golf might be things like fairways hit or good drives hit, penalty shots, green in regulation, whether you were able to get the ball up and down, whether you were able to scramble it out of bunkers, how many putts you took, how far was your first putt away from the hole after you had your first putt; all those stats are fairly simple stats. You can actually compile it into a nice little, maybe even a spreadsheet. Once you have those details, you can then start to focus on the areas that you need to improve on the most to improve your score.

So some people think that they are a bad driver; but if you are hitting 10 fairways and around the golf and you see Tiger Woods on the tally and he said I hit fairways and around the golf, clearly it is not your driving that is stopping you from getting on the PGA tour. But is it your putting? I just noticed just the other day, Padraig Harrington shot 61. It had 14 greens with only 1 putt on them. Now, after this [indiscernible] [0:02:06.3] in terms of a number of putts or that the lack of putting if you like. He just chipped it on stone every time and hold the putts. So clearly, he does really need to work on his short game next week.

Now, the way you can track you stats, either take a notepad out on the golf course. If you got a good memory, you can do it afterwards. But if you got a smart phone, have a look for a few apps. I certainly use an app when I play a go around mama school cut on the app and it tracks my stats for me as well; and then every month, I would have a review of that app, see where my good bits and where my bad bits are then setup a targeted plan that I would practice the areas that need to improve and hopefully in the next month, I would see that part of my game improve and that is getting the most efficient use out of your practice time.

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It is fair to say that you have only a certain amount of time in everyday or in every week to practice and dedicate to your golf. So it is really important to use that time efficiently when you practice the things that your skills are lacking in. Let us say you practice your weakest areas first, that would help you improve. Don’t just go and practice the things that you are good at. Practice the things you need to improve. Which areas do you think you need to improve? This is where looking at your stats can really help you out. By understanding your stats and understanding your strengths and weaknesses, you will start to find areas of your game that need the practice the most. So anytime you watch it on the TV, the caption always comes out about him is hit this many greens and this many fairways. Now over the course of 1 round, that might not give you too much of a true picture; but certainly, over the course of the tournament, over 4 days or a week or a month or certainly a year, you can start to see where your strengths and where your weakness arte and which areas you need to improve on.

So the simple stats that you might be able to calculate yourself even from memory over the last round or 2 of golf might be things like fairways hit or good drives hit, penalty shots, green in regulation, whether you were able to get the ball up and down, whether you were able to scramble it out of bunkers, how many putts you took, how far was your first putt away from the hole after you had your first putt; all those stats are fairly simple stats. You can actually compile it into a nice little, maybe even a spreadsheet. Once you have those details, you can then start to focus on the areas that you need to improve on the most to improve your score.

So some people think that they are a bad driver; but if you are hitting 10 fairways and around the golf and you see Tiger Woods on the tally and he said I hit fairways and around the golf, clearly it is not your driving that is stopping you from getting on the PGA tour. But is it your putting? I just noticed just the other day, Padraig Harrington shot 61. It had 14 greens with only 1 putt on them. Now, after this [indiscernible] [0:02:06.3] in terms of a number of putts or that the lack of putting if you like. He just chipped it on stone every time and hold the putts. So clearly, he does really need to work on his short game next week.

Now, the way you can track you stats, either take a notepad out on the golf course. If you got a good memory, you can do it afterwards. But if you got a smart phone, have a look for a few apps. I certainly use an app when I play a go around mama school cut on the app and it tracks my stats for me as well; and then every month, I would have a review of that app, see where my good bits and where my bad bits are then setup a targeted plan that I would practice the areas that need to improve and hopefully in the next month, I would see that part of my game improve and that is getting the most efficient use out of your practice time.