Golf metrics

The average distance your approach shots finish from the pin tracks your scoring more tightly than almost any traditional stat. Here is what the numbers reveal.

Up-and-down percentage hides where your short game actually leaks strokes. A strokes gained around the green calculator turns each chip, pitch, and bunker shot into one honest number.

18Birdies and Hole19 are great at scores, GPS, and handicaps. What they will not tell you is where your strokes actually go, and why you shot the number you did. Here is the gap, with real examples.

Driving stats usually stop at fairways hit and average distance. A strokes gained off the tee calculator turns each drive into one honest number that accounts for both.

Approach shots decide more scores than any other part of the game. A strokes gained approach calculator turns each iron shot into a number you can actually act on.

It is the single approach stat the PGA Tour tracks obsessively, and the one amateurs almost never record. Here is what proximity to the hole measures, why average distance beats greens hit, and the benchmarks worth chasing.