{"id":8268,"date":"2025-01-26T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8268"},"modified":"2025-01-31T03:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:21:18","slug":"keep-these-golf-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/keep-these-golf-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep These Golf Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hole-by-hole statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Number of full swing shots.<\/p>\n<p>2. Number of short shots (anything off the green with less than a full swing).<\/p>\n<p>3. Number of putts.<\/p>\n<p>4. Length of first putt.<\/p>\n<p>Include penalty shots in the count of where they occurred, number 1 or 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the numbers show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These numbers are good:<br \/>\nPar 3s: 102 or 111<br \/>\nPar 4s: 202 or 211<br \/>\nPar 5s: 302, 311, or 212. 202 is nice, too.<\/p>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t:<br \/>\nPar 3s: 213<br \/>\nPar 4s: 322<br \/>\nPar 5s: 412<\/p>\n<p>When number 2 is 0, that represents a GIR. Fairway hit? Draw a circle around the number 1 score.<\/p>\n<p>Looked at hole-by-hole, you can see how you got your score, and which part of your game was not ideal:<br \/>\nNumber 1 was greater than par minus two.<br \/>\nNumber 2 was two or more.<br \/>\nNumber 2 plus number 3 was greater than three.<br \/>\nNumber 4 and number 3 together are an assessment of your approach putting. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Over a number of rounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If number 1 is consistently too high, you need swing lessons.<\/p>\n<p>If you have too many twos in number 2, or number 2 plus number 3 is consistently three or more, get some short game lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Too many threes in number 3? Total putts over 34? Putting lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Prioritize improvement in this order: swing, putting, short game.<\/p>\n<p>A fuller explanation of how to use these stats <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/record-keeping\/\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hole-by-hole statistics 1. Number of full swing shots. 2. Number of short shots (anything off the green with less than a full swing). 3. Number of putts. 4. Length of first putt. Include penalty shots in the count of where they occurred, number 1 or 2. What the numbers show These numbers are good: Par &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/keep-these-golf-stats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep These Golf Stats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-29m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}