Practical Golf courtesy Ian Clark
Publié : 16 oct. 2017, 13:13
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PGA tour Stats
As many of you know I will use some PGA tour stats to help you better manage your own golfing expectations, I have also started using a website called Practical Golf which helps golfers to do away with unrealistic expectations when on the course, as expecting too much of your game is easily one of the biggest roadblocks to progress. Most (all) of you are way too hard on yourselves, mostly stemming from watching golf on TV, watching pros who make the game look a little easier, but I am not sure you will learn much watching these guys as they are on a whole different planet, they are the best fighter pilots in the world if you like!! However using their performance on the course is a great way to help manage your own expectations and put things into a better perspective. So with the help of Practical Golf, here are four stats from the PGA tour that will make you think once or twice about the expectations you are putting on your own game
Bogey from the Trees is Great!!
In recovery situations, such as being in a cluster of trees, PGA tour players make bogey more than 80% of the time. Think about that for a moment, cast your mind back to your last round and you tried to thread your ball through a small opening with a view of still trying to make a par, and ended up making a double bogey or worse. So take your medicine and get the ball back in play, your goal should be trying to make a bogey, and remember if you do that you are keeping up with the best golfers in the world.
Putting from 5 - 10 feet is not easy
This is a great distance to evaluate, because every golfer (myself included) berate themselves for missing from this distance. Have a guess how many putts the best on tour from this distance made this past season..........? 68% scary eh? The worst in this stat made 46%, tour players are great putters, yet most of them are making about half of their putts from this distance, so stop hitting yourself over the head if you miss one from eight feet. Now I don't want you setting up expecting to miss, but remember holing half from this distance is exceptional.
Wedges
Ok, from 100 - 125 yards away, how close do you think a tour player lands his ball from the hole? When I ask people,this question the common answer is about ten feet, well good news, the best in the world averaged 16 feet, the worst in the world a 'massive' 26 feet. So what does this mean? Firstly stop aiming at flags from this distance, you should be aiming for the middle of the green, yes ignore the flag and aim at the centre of the green. This is why I prefer the watches over the lasers that give you distances as the watch will give you a distance to the green centre.
Birdies
Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas, two names that will be familiar, and the two best golfers in the world this year, and they both averaged just over four birdies per round. The average on tour was just over three birdies per round, so it is hugely unrealistic for golfers trying to break 100,90, or 80 to make many birdies. Your key to lowering your score is to avoid making any big numbers., by choosing an aggressive strategy to make a birdie is only going to prevent you from lowering your score.
Newsletter de mon pro qui est en train de monter un site dedie pour faire relativiser nos perfs vis-à-vis des pros...
Pas mal de trucs interessants..
PGA tour Stats
As many of you know I will use some PGA tour stats to help you better manage your own golfing expectations, I have also started using a website called Practical Golf which helps golfers to do away with unrealistic expectations when on the course, as expecting too much of your game is easily one of the biggest roadblocks to progress. Most (all) of you are way too hard on yourselves, mostly stemming from watching golf on TV, watching pros who make the game look a little easier, but I am not sure you will learn much watching these guys as they are on a whole different planet, they are the best fighter pilots in the world if you like!! However using their performance on the course is a great way to help manage your own expectations and put things into a better perspective. So with the help of Practical Golf, here are four stats from the PGA tour that will make you think once or twice about the expectations you are putting on your own game
Bogey from the Trees is Great!!
In recovery situations, such as being in a cluster of trees, PGA tour players make bogey more than 80% of the time. Think about that for a moment, cast your mind back to your last round and you tried to thread your ball through a small opening with a view of still trying to make a par, and ended up making a double bogey or worse. So take your medicine and get the ball back in play, your goal should be trying to make a bogey, and remember if you do that you are keeping up with the best golfers in the world.
Putting from 5 - 10 feet is not easy
This is a great distance to evaluate, because every golfer (myself included) berate themselves for missing from this distance. Have a guess how many putts the best on tour from this distance made this past season..........? 68% scary eh? The worst in this stat made 46%, tour players are great putters, yet most of them are making about half of their putts from this distance, so stop hitting yourself over the head if you miss one from eight feet. Now I don't want you setting up expecting to miss, but remember holing half from this distance is exceptional.
Wedges
Ok, from 100 - 125 yards away, how close do you think a tour player lands his ball from the hole? When I ask people,this question the common answer is about ten feet, well good news, the best in the world averaged 16 feet, the worst in the world a 'massive' 26 feet. So what does this mean? Firstly stop aiming at flags from this distance, you should be aiming for the middle of the green, yes ignore the flag and aim at the centre of the green. This is why I prefer the watches over the lasers that give you distances as the watch will give you a distance to the green centre.
Birdies
Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas, two names that will be familiar, and the two best golfers in the world this year, and they both averaged just over four birdies per round. The average on tour was just over three birdies per round, so it is hugely unrealistic for golfers trying to break 100,90, or 80 to make many birdies. Your key to lowering your score is to avoid making any big numbers., by choosing an aggressive strategy to make a birdie is only going to prevent you from lowering your score.
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