Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
I believe that if you can record your statistics you can control what’s happening with your game and highlight areas of weakness.
Tour players have all the statistics at their disposal thanks to Genworth stats. These statistics include:
With these statistics it is possible to break your golf game down into sections and highlight areas that need to be improved.
The best way for an amateur to go about recording their statistics is to create a spreadsheet and monitor your scores over 10 rounds; this should start to provide you with facts about your game with no excuses!
Once you have started to build your statistics you should start to notice areas of weakness more easily and once these have been established you should focus the majority of your practice on these areas.
Recording your statistics should be an ongoing task; you should try and spend 10 minutes at the end of every round to complete the job as it will be fresh in your mind.
Don’t guess or think you know what areas you should focus your practice on – base it on facts then practice with a purpose.
Here are some of world No.1 Luke Donald’s stats:
GIR: Greens Hit 362 Number of Holes 540
Sand Saves: Saves 25 Bunkers 43
Fairways Hit: Fairways 286 Possible Fairways 420
