Keep an Eye on Your Statistics...
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The best golfers battle for victories in the most important tournaments of the game. That is where the biggest purses in pro golf also exist.
The Official Money List is a traditional way to follow how the players perform on professional tours.
For a professional golfer to be able to win the Money List every part of the game has to be on the top level. You have to be ranked highly in many categories of the game's crucial statistics.
Every swing in every tournament on top pro tours is put into statistics. This is how we can analyze the game of the players and how they rank among peers.
For an amateur golfer, one of the best ways to follow the improvement of his own performance is the handicap system. But when lowering your handicap, it is essential to learn more about your game. Learning more about stats and keeping score on some of the most important statistical categories will improve your game effectively. By taking a close look at stats we can find the highs and lows of our game. The Suunto G3 Wristop computer helps you to keep your statistics and to understand them when improving your own game.
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"You drive for show but you putt for dough." This famous old line is still true. But when you take a good look at stats on professional tours, it is fair to say that you also drive for money. Today, pros hit very far and the stats also tell us how important it is to have distance and accuracy off the tee to be a successful player.
Debate about driving distance versus hitting fairways is common and never ending. The best golfers outperformed the others by the widest margins on par-5s. Par-5s need distances off the tee and for a long hitter, they are played as par-4s. Birdie average is heavily weighted toward par-5s.
Long drives are important in an amateur's game and when you put down your distances off the tee, be honest with yourself. It is the only way to make statistics work for you.
For amateur golfers, more emphasis should be put on the accuracy of drives. Next time you head for the first tee, remember to keep score of every fairway you hit. It's as easy as pressing one button of your Suunto G3! Hitting the green is much easier from the fairway than from the deep rough.
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Fairways in Regulation - FIR, or driving accuracy, is the percentage of times a player is able to hit the fairway with his tee shot. It can also be defined as the average number of fairways per round. FIR is not used in par-3s.
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Tip; next time on a golf course, ask your playing partner for a stats challenge. Gain one point for every "fairway hit", "green in regulation", "sand save" and "up-and-down". At the end, the one with more points usually ends up with the better score.
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One of the most widely used golf statistics is GIR - Greens In Regulation. On professional tours or at your local golf club, many players rate their rounds according to GIR.
Greens In Regulation measures very effectively your play from tee to green and sums up a long game, excluding putting.
To achieve a green in regulation, the ball must be on the putting green in the expected number of strokes in relation to par. The par for a hole always includes two putts, so to achieve a GIR on a par-4, you must reach the green with your second shot.
GIR means that the ball must be on the putting surface. If it is a couple inches off in the fringe of the green and you are able to putt it, it does not count.
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Greens in Regulation is defined as both the average number of greens per round and as a percentage of greens hit.
GIR statistics estimated:
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Read more about statistics in Golf in the Suunto Golf Guide and keep on Golfing with your Suunto G3!
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