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Do you take stats of your game?

Which stats do you take?

How do you remember them?

What sort of stats help you the most?

I used to take stats and it was fun for awhile, but I am lucky in that I play often enough that it became a hassle...bottom line for me is that I can anaylze stats all day, but I can tell if I need to work on my driver, or my sand game, or my putting etc.....

If you reflect on your on-course performance once in a while, and are honest with yourself, you will know what to work on.

Disclaimer:
This perspective was brought to you by someone who plays golf for fun.

I bought this little black bi-fold from Roger Dunn and it has re-filledable sheets. It track your score, putts, FIR's & GIR's. You write the name of the course and the date and you tally them out. I take these and enter them onto my handicap website "Golfserv" via GOLF.com and it calculates your rounds and it sends you a report card once a month and it tells you how you are progressing. It is tied into the golf club I belong to and it is not a pain to do. For those interested in wondering if your making an headay in your game, it is worth it.

When I did track stats, I would just replay the round shot by shot in my mind...of course the better I got the easier this became...

I had found that to track stats while trying to play was hugely distracting and that I would get caught up in the numbers and forget my real purpose out on the course...

The only one I do is putts per round.
As I mark my card, I write the number of putts next to it.

I use four lines on a scorecard, for Score, Putts, Greens, Fairways. The GIR is the most important one to me.

I've been tracking my stats since I put my site up in 2005.

It takes very little effort and it's fun to do. I usually enter my score and stat info on my phone on the site while playing.

Stats are cool when you have something to compare with. I like to compare my own stats for different date ranges and compare with better players to find out what needs to get a lot better.

Here are my stats for 2007. Two men's leagues and being able to play 9 on Tuesdays (after work) and 18 on Thursdays (back to work after playing) made a lot of golf hehe.

I had major back problems this year. For a couple of months, I still played, but I could not make a full swing or keep both feet on the ground. My stats after that struggle were the best since I started tracking. I finished with a 1.9 handicap.

Total Rounds 88
Total Courses Played 22
Total Rounds 18 Holes 62
Total Rounds Front Nine 82
Total Rounds Back Nine 68
Avg Score 18 Holes 80
Avg Score Front Nine 39.4
Avg Score Back Nine 40.8
Fairways 693/1031 (67%)
Fairways Front Nine 375/566 (66%)
Fairways Back Nine 318/465 (68%)
Greens 647/1332 (49%)
Greens Front Nine 372/720 (52%)
Greens Back Nine 275/612 (45%)
Avg Putts 18 Holes 33.21
Avg Putts 1.83
Avg Putts Front Nine 1.82
Avg Putts Back Nine 1.83
Avg Putts Per Green in Regulation 2.02
Avg Putts Per Green Non-Reg 1.65
Zero Putts 6 (0%)
One Putts 379 (28%)
Two Putts 815 (60%)
Three or More Putts 150 (11%)
Sand Saves 21/85 (25%)
Non-Sand Saves 207/618 (33%)
Total Saves 228/703 (32%)
Hole in Ones 0 (0%)
Double Eagles 0 (0%)
Eagles 1 (0%)
Birdies 100 (7%)
Pars 669 (50%)
Bogeys 451 (33%)
Double Bogeys 104 (8%)
Triple Bogeys 19 (1%)
Others 6 (0%)
Par 3 Avg Score 3.51
Par 4 Avg Score 4.54
Par 5 Avg Score 5.29
Par 3 Green in Regulation 126/314 (40%)
Par 4 Green in Regulation 348/748 (47%)
Par 5 Green in Regulation 173/270 (64%)

Every so often i will play a round and keep a note of where every shot landed,the flight,greens in regulation and putts taken. Always surprises me when you see where the shots are being lost as opposed to where you think youre losing them,with me its G.I.R. having to rely on my short game and scrambling pars.

nrs of golf balls lost per round.

Thats a new one to me!!

Me too on the lost balls gauge.

If I used the same ball for 18 holes I know it couldn't have been too bad hehe. I tear up the cover with my Vokey wedges, so I usually give the ball to the course at the end...no hard feelings.

I work with some people who have created a website where you can actually enter you scores in real time while out on the course using your mobile phone. In fact the boss has used his iPhone to score over a years worth of rounds. Since they've developed this site, my boss has gotten his entire country club to start scoring their tournements and league matches with the mobile site and then review their scores after the rounds are over.

The site is link removed, membership is free and using the mobile site is free. It's a really good place to track your rounds, the scores you had and if you like to play side games like Skins, Stablefords or Match Plays you'll like this even more. They've written all the scoring into the pages and you only need to put down what you've scored on the hole. Once you're done, come back review what you've done, see how you're golf buddies have done and set up a round for the coming week.

Hope this helps you.

Just what we need, a course full of people on their phones after every hole.

Well it is the 21st century and I think that a lot of people who play golf now a days do have cell phones. Why not just make it easier for them to keep track of their scores? Is it really that dumb of an idea not to use you iPhone or Palm or Tero to hit the internet, punce in your score and just keep on playing. Surelly you can't say that you enjoy sitting around after the end of a round of gof and trying to figure out who won when you could just open the website and see who scored what where?

Come on, using a phone on the course ain't that bad of idea.