The 9 Numbers Every Golfer MUST Know
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- So. Many. Golf. Stats. But what's actually important? Which numbers will actually change your game? This video is about the 9 numbers every golfer should know to play better. Surprise surprise - they're not what we hear about all the time!
Hope this is helpful! Please let me know with the like button, and drop me a comment with what you liked/what worked.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:47 PGA Tour Stats
03:50 Swing Mastery
08:05 Round Mastery
12:10 Summary
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WHO IS THIS GUY
Hey - I'm Manu, a full-time desk-jobber and part-time golfer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After 23 YEARS of mindless hacking, I finally got my act together and dropped my handicap from ~12 to scratch.
What I learned is we waste a lot of time at the range, but there are SO MANY THINGS you can do to get big results IMMEDIATELY. And so I make videos to share what I've learned and help you make the journey WAY faster (and with less frustration). Hope this is helpful!
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Managing expectations is a very important key to golf. Thanks for the insightful video
1000% - changes everything! Glad you liked the video Mike! 😃
Excellent video. This review would be helpful to anyone, but I know some beginner golfers and I am sending them the link right now. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you, and glad you liked it!
Hi Manu,
I will watch this video many times. Or until I make notes. Great content as always. Thank you
Haha love it! Glad you liked the video, and good to hear from you mate!
@@upbeatgolfer true! I sent you an email the other day mate. Better late than never. Kids keeping me busy
I like the #1 tip. I am going to start tracking good shots, meh shots, bad shots by driver, approach, chips/pitch, putts. I think by improving the number of good shots I hit by category per round can be a leading indicator to lower handicap. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
100%! Glad you found it useful! One other thing you might want to track is a note for each good + bad shot, with what you did that led to it being good or bad. Might help you identify faster what it is that unleashes the greatness within 😃
I do the thing you suggested: think, feel and play for each shot now ;-)
Yes! That is actually a topic for video coming soon :)
What’s your cheat sheet you mentioned in the video?
I make one for every important round I play. Basically it covers my mental keys for the round. I talk about it in more detail in this video: th-cam.com/video/zEILBs9YGuE/w-d-xo.html. Would love to hear if it works for you!
@@upbeatgolfer Just watched the whole thing. Going to try it this weekend. :)
Awesome! Did it work?!
@@upbeatgolfer Didn't create a cheat sheet (yet). Tried to keep as much as you said in the video in my head (I watched way too many of your videos before the round - so was all over the place slightly). :)
But, I did shoot 77! A lot of things in your video worked and ofcourse some I screwed up myself. :)
Wow. First number and you've already thought of this incorrectly.
The "avg PGA Tour wedge" approach is 15'6"... That's not the difference there fella.
If you hit it inside 16feet, that's not "tour quality"... No...
Instead, you need to take your average based on all your wedge approaches for the round or several rounds (since most ams I play with hit a wedge on the green every other round at best) you play and compare that to 16 feet.
For most people I've seen, sub 18 handicaps to above say 5 handicaps, the average is 50 feet with an N>20. This includes wedge shots that miss the green.
There are zero samples of 5 wedge shots taken by an 18 handicap that aligns with the average for tour pros.
I'm actually pretty darn good with wedges, but my average is 30 feet.... So ouch... Especially on many greens which are less than 10 yards across...
So, instead, I would suggest people use the "hit the green" stat for wedges for pros and compare to that.
I think pros hit the green something like 96% of the time with a wedge in hand.
So, count your wedges which hit the green vs those you hit and if you are above 50%, you are doing well! 😊
Ignore putting stats for comparison.. The best green you play on will most likely be less smooth and prep'd than the average tour green...
So, you are never going to make as many 8 foot putts. The other side is true too. Tour pros (and they'll tell you this) make fewer putts outside 5 feet on muni greens than on tour greens.
Tip your cap to tour prep staff. They do even more magic than you imagine with these greens and those courses typically shut down for 2-3 weeks before the first pro arrives.... Grass grows ya know... 😊
True of miss rates too. Just don't bother yourself comparing to tour putting. It's a different game.
OMG bunker up and downs... Just ignore this stat completely. You aren't playing that game...
Up and down is a mishmash of two stats. Proximity to the hole from a green side bunker (a good stat to keep) and hole outs on putts out of bunkers.
So, proximity to the hole does impact this, but again, most of the time they are outside of 3 feet, so it's green smoothness again.
Instead, compare your up and down rate out of a bunker with that of green side chips and pitches.
If it's lower than your green side chips and pitches, take a lesson.
If you get up and down from off the green more than 20% and from bunkers more than 10%, you are doing pretty well on muni-courses.
Pros will probably get more like 30% out of green side bunkers on munis and 40% on green side ships and pitches.
Quality of the turf is sooo important to these stats. 😊
Hey John - thanks for the comments. Although I was a bit sad to see the "you've already thought of this incorrectly" right at the start. Have some trust man!
I think we're approaching this in different ways. *This is how I look at it:*
1. Most amateurs don't know their shot dispersion or averages, because we don't track them that carefully. But everyone wants to be like the pros, and so the most common benchmark for most folks is pro stats. Is it the most accurate? No, of course not. But it does set a ceiling for our expectations, and the purpose of the first stat was to give folks an idea of what peak performance looks like, and clarify that it's not always the pin seekers we see on TV.
2. While our averages tell us how we perform overall, they're not ideal for deciding on targets. That's because averages include outliers, and in general we don't (and IMO we shouldn't) plan for the 20y push fade with an 8-iron that happens once every 20-30 shots. That's why in my Flashlight Formula piece, I suggest folks look at their top 70-80% of shots and exclude outliers. If we relied purely on averages, all us amateurs would be aiming at the center of the green every time, which would get real boring real quick. Also, I believe there has to be _some_ room for optimism and confidence in our targeting, and done well that will lead to better shots overall.
*To your points about each stat:*
- You're right in that most amateurs have trouble hitting the green every time with a wedge in hand, and should be happy when they do that. However, I don't know anyone who's happy landing the ball >40ft from the hole from 100y, and that includes my 20hcp Sunday buddies. We're all looking for great results to be excited about, and for some of us that's a low round, and for others it's making some pars and maybe a birdie. And the point of my first stat was to provide a baseline that even the pros aren't sticking the pin on every wedge shot (that stat is avg proximity from 100y in the fairway, and the lowest number in that row) so we can go easier on ourselves when we don't.
- You and I are making the same point re: the putting stat, only I'm using it as a ceiling for number of putts you might make from 8ft. If pros can only make 50% of 8-footers on perfect greens, we should expect that as our max. And yes, muni greens are not as good as country club greens, and often not anywhere close to a PGA green. However, if you're going to get bad rolls you're also going to get good rolls. Often muni cups have rounded edges which effectively makes the cup bigger, and sometimes you get good nudges towards the hole. Also, muni greens often have fewer undulations than CC greens, which makes them easier.
- And again I think we're saying the same thing on the bunker stat, perhaps framed differently. My point is that the best players in the world get up and down from bunkers only half the time (on perfectly-conditioned courses as you say), and so we can use that to level-set our expectations. With that in mind, we can ease up on trying to get the ball to gimme range and focus on getting the ball on the green in the first place.
To your point about comparing your sand save % with your greenside chip/pitch percentage, I think those are two different things for amateurs. I'm pretty good chipping from off the green (I practice a lot) and it is WAY better than my sand save % (and I'm pretty good at that too). For pretty much everyone that is the case, as you mentioned, so I would tweak your point about "if it's lower than your greenside chips and pitches..." to say if it's "significantly lower than your greenside chips...".
*And*, given the difficulty from bunkers for most folks, I stand by my point in the video to steer clear of them as often as possible.
Thanks again for the engagement, and good luck with your game!