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What is your vote for the the most important stat to track while playing a round? My vote: greens-in-regulation.

I made a complicated spreadsheet for stats a while back that converts up and downs, sand shots, GIRs and fairways hit into percentages, also records putts, pars, bogeys and birdies as well as score for the front, back and overall...I have been religiously putting in the stats for about a year and studying the results...recently I have stopped and stopped looking at past results, and stopped thinking about the holes in terms of stats...it was creeping into my game (ie: how many GIRs am I working on now as I stand over the ball on the 12th)...stopping has helped clear my mind and my scores are dropping, ballstriking better and I have less going on in my head on the course...

My vote... How many shots you hit on each hole

My vote is GIR also, but that is because that is my strength. If I had the time to take the game more seriously, I should be tracking my putting (where I feel that I am losing valuable strokes), and when that time comes I will. However, until I can find more time, I am not beating myself up over my putting. I am trying to have some fun on the course.

I keep track of my putts. Puttign is the most important part in golf and if you have to many putts, say hello to high scores.

GIR with me also. Worst part of my game. I am working on it!

Fairways. If you hit fairways, you hit greens. You hit greens you score well. If you can't hit fairways you don't hit as many greens.Simple

Agree with GIRs. You have to give yourself a chance.

For me, it's fairways hit, because if I'm in the fairway, I'm almost always on the green in reg, so I guess the two go hand in hand, but I concentrate on hitting fairways first, and then the GIR's will usually happen naturally.

GIR with putting second. You can miss a fairway and still hit a great shot...sometimes better to not be in the fairway if you have a better shot at the green.

There was a study made once that, to break 80, you need to hit 8 GIR's. I feel that it's #1 GIR, #2 Putts and #3 Scrambling. If you can't chip and putt then no amount of GIR's will help you

That sounds about right to me. Most places I play don't have very penal rough. As long as I'm close to the fairway, I generally have about as good a shot as if I'd hit the fairway.

Here are stats for all 79's so far in my stat tracker:

Total Rounds 67
Total Courses Played 48
Avg Score 18 Holes 79
Avg Score Front Nine 39.6
Avg Score Back Nine 39.4
Fairways 464/913 (51%)
Fairways Front Nine 231/456 (51%)
Fairways Back Nine 233/457 (51%)
Greens 578/1206 (48%)
Greens Front Nine 285/603 (47%)
Greens Back Nine 293/603 (49%)
Avg Putts 1.8
Avg Putts Front Nine 1.8
Avg Putts Back Nine 1.8
Avg Putts Per Green in Regulation 2
Avg Putts Per Green Non-Reg 1.62
Zero Putts 10 (1%)
One Putts 329 (27%)
Two Putts 760 (63%)
Three or More Putts 107 (9%)
Sand Saves 11/46 (24%)
Non-Sand Saves 190/581 (33%)
Total Saves 201/627 (32%)
Eagles 0 (0%)
Birdies 98 (8%)
Pars 595 (49%)
Bogeys 423 (35%)
Double Bogeys 79 (7%)
Triple Bogeys 8 (1%)
Others 3 (0%)
Par 3 Avg Score 3.51
Par 4 Avg Score 4.48
Par 5 Avg Score 5.2
Par 3 Green in Regulation 107/290 (37%)
Par 4 Green in Regulation 310/676 (46%)
Par 5 Green in Regulation 161/240 (67%)

Some items of interest for barely breaking 80:

Hit half the fairways and greens
Not a single eagle (would make a lower score hehe)
No worse than triple and only 1% triples here
Just need to hit 1 out of 3 par 3's, half the par 4's, and 2/3 of the par 5's
2 putt when you hit the green
less than 2 putts when you miss the green

:)

putting for me, i keep track of how many putts i take on each hole and i work on that. i have gone from 3-4 putting 90% of the time to 1-2 putting 90% now. if i could just hit the fairway now....