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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the Friday Egg Podcast. Today I'm joined by podcast regular Kyle Nathan and

Columbia Business School Professor, creator of the Strokes Gain Statistics,

and author of Every Shot Counts, Mark Brody.

Mark, welcome on.

Thanks for having me on this Friday podcast, guys.

Yeah, our pleasure.

You know, we're trying something new here with Kyle doing making a three man pod here.

Well, Mark, I know you're really busy this time of year, so why don't we just kick it right off?

Sure, fire away.

All right, the question Andy gets and I get a lot from whether it's someone that's my, you know, 20 handicap friend or scratch

golfer friend is how to best explain

strokes gain putting to a layperson. How would you do that? Okay well strokes gain

putting I think is is pretty straightforward. skiing putting

straightforward. The problem with counting puts is it doesn't take into account the

distance of the putts. So a two putt from 60 feet is pretty good and a two putt from three feet is pretty poor

so they both count as as two putts and the reason that they're very different performances is they start from different distances.

So if you measure putting instead of by counting putts by relative to the tour average, then you get a much better measure of a putting performance.

So from 33 feet, the average number of putts to hold out for a pro is two. So if you two putt from

33 feet you're neither gaining nor losing but a one putt will gain a stroke

and a three putt will lose a stroke.

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