
The Best Golf Statistics to Track (Without Sensors or Hardware)
Sensor systems like Arccos and Shot Scope are useful, but you can build a serious analytics picture with nothing but a scorecard, a phone, and a few seconds per hole.

Sensor systems like Arccos and Shot Scope are useful, but you can build a serious analytics picture with nothing but a scorecard, a phone, and a few seconds per hole.

You sit between beginner and advanced, using analytics tools built around tour pros. Here is what your strokes gained should actually look like, and what your numbers tell you to do next.

Ten rounds is the point where your golf data starts becoming actionable. This audit shows exactly what to review and what to do next.

A handicap number tells you what you shot. Strokes gained tells you why you shot it. One scores the round, the other diagnoses the player — and you genuinely need both.

Strokes gained against a PGA Tour pro tells you the size of the mountain. Strokes gained against a 10 handicap tells you which step to take next. Here is when the smaller benchmark is the better one.

GPS answers a question about distance. Stats answer a question about improvement. Most golfers have only ever installed one of the two — and it is usually the wrong one.