Managing Putting Expectations!
Managing Putting Expectations
Be Realistic – AND Measure Performance!
Mental putting skills are an important part of become great at putting.
One element of creating great mental putting skills is having Realistic Expectations for your putting performance. The image in this post comes from data in the every golfer needs to read book EVERY SHOT COUNTS by Dr. Mark Broadie. This little “Vistaprint” card is one of the favorite ones I share with golfers. Even at 5 feet away from the hole, scratch golfers on average make only 66% of their putts – and at 10 feet this percentages drops down to 33%. Working to improve your putting performance for distances less than 10 feet, and working to create great distance control for all putts longer than 10 feet, is a winning combination.
So now then – how should you measure putting performance from a round of golf? One of the “old school” ways to do this is to count the number of putts you take – but there is a better way. Strokes Gained Putting is a way to measure how many strokes a golfer gains or loses compared to some average data. The average could be PGA or LPGA Tour data, data for a scratch golfer, or perhaps data for a 20 handicap golfer. This link provides a good explanation of Strokes Gained. Dr. Mark Broadie developed the Strokes Gained process, and this article explains why it is the best way to track putting performance.
If you want to dive into calculating Strokes Gained Putting data for your personal putting performance, there are a number of stand-alone apps you can search for on the internet for doing that. I also have created a spreadsheet Strokes Gained Calculator based on data in Every Shot Counts, and I would be happy to share that with anyone who would like to use it. Click this CONTACT TONY link if you want me to send it to you.
Measure What You Do + Have Realistic Expectations + Create An Improvement Plan = MAKE MORE PUTTS!
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