Orikoru
Tour Winner
I record some basic stats in Hole19. Not really sure why as I don't use them for anything but a point of interest. Every stat is useless on it's own because each stat affects another stat. For example, you had 35 putts which you think is rubbish, but then maybe you hit 75% of greens when you normally miss more and chip closer to the hole, and so on. Similarly I record fairways hit, but if I miss one by two yards and it's sitting up in light rough I'm not exactly downbeat about it. So while I find it interesting to look at it, it's quite hard to really make improvements based on the stats.
No low-hanging fruit for my game unfortunately.
That actually makes sense to me - at 80 yards you could be hitting a full shot with a sand wedge, whereas once you get closer you're hitting partial shots and pitch shots which are more difficult for lots of people. Everyone has that troublesome yardage.Interesting that a 20 handicapper has more chance of hitting the green from 76-80 than 71-75.....![]()
I consider myself to be pretty good at course management. It's kinda sad that whenever I see a video or article claiming easy wins to get your handicap down, it's so often stuff like that - getting yardage to back of the green rather than the front - taking plenty of club - not going for hero shots. And I already do that stuff so it doesn't help me.One of the points that Stagner often makes with these kind of Stats isn't just expectation management, but also that handicap golfers should be biasing their aim towards the middle of the green rather than the pin even on fairly short shots.