Finding time to practice your golf game can be a challenge, but, through data, we can help you get as much as possible from any session.
Photography this: finally carved some time to work on your game. Maybe it’s a Tuesday evening after work or a quiet Saturday morning. You have an hour to practice and you want to make it count. Where do you go?
If you are like most players, surely catch a large bucket and make a beeline for the running range. It makes sense, right? Work at that pace, dig some bases, maybe try to add a few meters.
Here is the thing: you can practice wrong things.
Our friends in Stretch have recorded more than 400 million shots on the course by players around the world. This is a lot of data and tells a very clear story where players actually play most of their shooting.
Spoiler Alert: Not from 150 yards in the middle of the road.
Where you actually play golf
To see if there was any difference between the handicaps, we removed the shooting and shocks from the equation. Here’s what the data revealed:
Full twist: There is no practically any difference between a 5-Handicapper and a 25-Handicapper when it comes to the place where they are hitting most of their shooting. Whether you are scratched or shooting in the 90s, most of your shots come from within 50 yards and beyond 200.
Why so many shots from the near distance? Because most of us miss much more greens than we would take care to accept.
The average 15-Handicapper hits four greens in round regulations. four. It means 14 times in the round, they are trying around the green hoping to save something good.
When looking at the percentages of green distance adjustment, the picture becomes even clearer:
Check this: a 15-Handicapper has about a 30 percent chance to hit the green of 100 yards. Switch back to 150 yards and that number drops at approximately 15 percent.
Here’s where it becomes interesting (and a little desperate): If you are standing in the middle of the road on 100 yards thinking that you should be hunting the stake, think again. Based on these numbers, more than half of your shots will not even find the placement surface.
Stop waste time in the range
Look, I get it. Bomb discs feel good. Something therapeutic something about the sound of a well -hit driver that makes you forget about your mortgage payment and that strange noise your car has made.
But if you have had unlimited time to practice, of course, work on your accuracy from any distance. The problem? You don’t have unlimited time. No one does it.
Practicing at all these distances based on shot frequency data is not merely ineffective – it is a loss of little precious time of practice you have.
Your time would spend endlessly better in the short game area, working on distance control and accuracy. Missing reduction is inevitable (see above), but if you have a sharp short game, you can turn those doubles into the cat and those bogeys in pars.
Time to develop some short game sauce
Stair drills are your new best friend for developing control and feeling in the distance. Choose a target and hit balls from 10, 20 and 30 yards, focusing on how close you can reach the pin.
But here most players deceive their expectations. When you are hitting that wedge of 50 yards, you probably think you have to climb it within 10 meters every time.
Sorry to explode your bubble.
You can be shocked when you learn that an average 5 meters on the pinnacle when hitting from 50 yards. Thirty meters! If it makes you feel better for your short game, you are welcome.
Control of reality continues: Only when you are hitting from 10 yards can you wait in order to get it within 10 meters. And even then, you will probably think it should be closer.
Reception management with real data
Having performance data is not just about improving your game-has to do with managing your expectations and avoiding mental gymnastics leading to three-stroke clubs.
If you are a 5-day and hit it within 30 meters by 50 yards, you actually hit an average blow. This may not feel good at the moment, but the data does not lie.
After all? Stop beating yourself for shots that are actually good enough and start focusing on your practice time, where it will do the best.
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