Golf metrics

Breaking 80 is a different problem than breaking 90. The golfer on the bubble is already competent everywhere, so the four strokes hide in two places at once instead of one.

The smartest club for any shot is the one your own data points to — not a generic distance chart and not an "AI caddie" guessing from satellite imagery. Here is how to build club recommendations you can actually trust.

Breaking 90 is not about one heroic round. The strokes gained data shows it comes down to a specific shift in one category, and it is rarely the one golfers practice most.

You think you putt well, but the only evidence is a gut feeling and a putt total that hides more than it shows. Here is the honest way to grade your putting.

Two golfers shoot 30 putts and have nothing in common. One putted out of his mind, the other left strokes on every green. The number alone never tells you which.

Strokes gained off the tee sounds technical, but the meaning is simple: it scores your driver and fairway wood tee shots against what a benchmark golfer would do from the same spot.