Golf improvement

What does a "good" strokes gained look like at your handicap? These benchmarks show you where average golfers at every level gain and lose strokes across all four categories.

Strokes gained breaks your game into four categories. Understanding what each one measures—and what it tells you—is the key to knowing where to improve.

Traditional golf stats have been around for decades, but strokes gained is changing how golfers understand their performance. Here is why the two approaches tell very different stories.