Golf Analytics

Five strokes in one season, broken down shot by shot. The interesting part is not that the scoring average fell. It is that almost none of it came from the two things this golfer was sure were the problem.

Most golfers remember their best rounds wrong. When you pull the shot data from your top five scores, the pattern that shows up is almost never the one you expected.

None of these five changes require a better swing. They are decisions you make before the shot, and together they are worth two to four strokes for most mid-handicappers.

Your scoring average can drop a shot and a half without you improving at all. A structured mid-season check separates the real progress from the noise.

Your handicap tells you almost nothing about why the season went the way it did. A structured end-of-season review does.

Going from a 20 to a 10 means finding seven strokes per round. They do not come out evenly, and they do not come out in the order most golfers expect. Here is the route the data actually takes.