Putting is Overrated! An Introduction to the "Strokes Gained" Concept with Professor Mark Broadie

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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GS#432 & 433 April 15, 2014 What does it take to drop 10 strokes from your score? Traditional stats -- fairways/greens/putts per round -- don't answer these questions. Just before the release of his book, Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy, Professor Mark Broadie introduced us to his theory. He wasn't sure if this idea would be accepted, but today, it's critical on every level of competitive golf. This is the full 65 minute interview that were originally published as two episodes. In part2 of the conversation, we ask what about the rest of us?! We dig into how objective analysis of scoring data can help us lower our scores.This episode is brought to you by 5Hour Energy. 5-hour ENERGY Transfusion flavor is available online or in stores. Head to 5hourENERGY.com and order yours today!Check out "Invested in the Game", a new original podcast from Charles Schwab. This podcast is their way of sharing the incredible stories behind the game. Listen now at schwab.com/TheGame or wherever you get your podcasts.This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply. This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options. This episode is brought to you by RULA. Find a therapist or psychiatric provider who specializes in you at rula.com/golfsmarter.This episode is also brought to you by Policygenius. Secure your family’s future with Policygenius. Head to policygenius.com to compare free life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's another two for Golf Smarter episodes number 432 and 433 from April 15, 2014.
0:09.2	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:12.0	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:20.4	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:23.6	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this
0:29.6	that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:32.6	Amateur golfers miss way more than 50% of their putts on the low side of the hole. The question is,
0:38.3	why is that? So there's several possible explanations, but one is, if you aim at the apex, you
0:43.8	will miss low. And why is that? Because the apex is the furthest point or the highest point on this
0:49.2	curved path toward the hole. But that usually happens somewhere near the middle of the put. In order to get the putt to go into the hole, you've got to start it higher because gravity will immediately start breaking.
1:01.0	So if your target is the apex, to hit the apex, you've got to start it higher than the apex because that first half of the putt is going to be breaking before it gets there. It's not like this putt goes straight, and then it takes a left turn at the apex.
1:14.2	It doesn't do that.
1:15.0	It breaks from the instant that you hit it, and that's the physics of it,
1:19.2	and that implies that you've got to start the put higher than the apex
1:23.5	in order to hit the line that you're visualizing into the hole.
1:31.6	Okay. in order to hit the line that you're visualizing into the hole. Pudding is overrated.
1:33.8	An introduction to golf metrics to Professor Mark Brody.
1:36.1	This is Golf Smarter.
1:38.8	Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Mark.
1:41.6	Fred, thanks for having me on.
1:43.1	It's a pleasure.
1:45.0	Thank you very much. I just need to know something as we talk about this book.
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