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Importance of Stat Tracking to Improve Your Game

By: Golfshake Editor | Wed 25 Apr 2018


Statistics have become an essential tool when it comes for golfers looking to improve their games. Developing from the more basic Greens and Fairways in Regulation to Total Putts, players on the PGA and European Tour have adopted Strokes Gained as a method of analysing their strengths and weaknesses. However you may wish to collate data from your rounds on the golf course, it’s clear that it can be an invaluable assist to identify which areas you need to work on.

The Golfshake Score Tracker – FREE TO USE – is a resource to record your rounds and track those essential stats. It can be accessed either via the Website or Apps – both iPhone and Android. But just why is this relevant to you, and how essential could those stats by to lowering your handicap?

Recently, former Ryder Cup player Edoardo Molinari – regarded as being among the most cerebral golfers in the game – wrote a blog for the European Tour documenting his journey with recording statistics, including creating his own custom software. This helped the 2005 U.S. Amateur champion to understand his own game and break down false perceptions he may have held both about it, and which areas are ultimately most crucial to improving performance and lowering scores.

That can be through spending more on the range to improve your driving or iron play, practicing your short game, or even reading those stats as an influencer of strategy. Molinari notes how these small details affect his approach. “It’s easy to get overwhelmed by looking at your game as a whole. It’s important to look at specific parts of your game or shots and see how they can help you improve. For example, if I know that, off the tee, numbers show that I rarely miss the ball to the left, if I’m playing a hole with out-of-bounds on the left I know I can probably hit driver and not worry. It’s information like that, those sort of scenarios, that will help a Tour player pick up shots.”

Golfshake’s NEW Visual Shot Tracker will provide you with similar analysis. This now allow additional data to be stored against any round in the system enabling golfers to record hole and shot data for shots; off the tee, green approach and 1st putt result.  These new stats are a great way to analyse your golf performance and over time identify shot tendencies to provide insights on where to practice and thus improve your game.

The new system is the next stage of some exciting updates that will see further enhancements to the stats tracked in readiness for some analytically updates focused around Strokes Gained and the existing golf handicap benchmarks within the Golfshake system.

When it comes to a specific case study, county level golfer Ed Dimambro tracked 522 holes worth of stats on Golfshake throughout 2016, which helped to identify the positives and negatives of his game, providing a revealing insight into the aspects that he needed to better himself, in addition to where he was going wrong. Studies of over 1,000,000 rounds played have shown that tracking your stats for a full season could see your handicap drop by three shots.

18+ handicappers drop on average 1.3 from their handicap every seven rounds tracked, with the mid teen handicappers dropping more regularly but only 0.8 every five rounds, while those exclusive single figure golfers find it much tougher to maintain with an average drop of 0.5 every 11 rounds.

This year, Golfshake has unveiled an additional series of features within the Score Tracker. These include Handicap Benchmarks, Visual Stat Charts, Hole Length Performance, Visual % Performance Analysis, Improved Reports and Analysis, Strengths & Weaknesses Trends and Graphs, Charts and Analysis.

Every golfer wants to improve their game and shoot lower scores. Stat Tracking has become an essential part of that process, and the Golfshake Score Tracker is an accessible pathway to achieve that.


What do you think? post your thoughts and feedback on the Golfshake Forum: https://forum.golfshake.com/




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