Saturday Morning Golf Stat - 10 Index, Best vs. Worst Putting and Approach
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. Not all 10-index golfers are the same. In today's episode, Lou asks Mark and Greg to guess the strokes difference between the best and worst 10-index putters and the strokes difference between the best and worst 10-index golfers in approach play. The numbers give insight into where different golfers should focus their efforts for the most efficient improvement.
Each of these will be a mini-episode (10-15 minutes long) about an interesting golf stat. We will discuss what you can learn, and most importantly, how you can apply this on the golf course to lower your scores and lower your handicap.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturdays that time Lou, we're talking 10 index players and we've got a bit of a complex one by the sounds of it. |
| 0:08.0 | Do you guys remember how to calculate sign and cosine? Do you remember that? Because we're going to need that today. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | All right. |
| 0:15.0 | Gotcha. I have no idea what you just said. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a triangle thing. |
| 0:18.0 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:20.0 | So I'm going to start this with a reference to like PGA Tour players. |
| 0:24.6 | So, you know, they use strokes gain to measure how you perform in each skill category. |
| 0:30.7 | And let's take somebody like Rory McElroy. |
| 0:33.6 | He's a phenomenal driver of the golf ball. |
| 0:36.2 | He gains about a shot per round with his driver against the average PGA tour player. |
| 0:42.0 | And let's say that the worst player on the PGA tour, let's say that they lose three shots per round with their driver. |
| 0:49.7 | The skill difference between Rory and the worst driver is four shots. |
| 0:56.2 | Rory gains one, they lose three, it's a four shot difference. |
| 1:00.3 | We're going to look at this for amateur players, and it's the same concept. |
| 1:05.1 | And this is only for 10 index players. |
| 1:07.5 | And I want to look at the best putting 10 index players versus the worst putting 10 index players |
| 1:16.6 | and so what I did to get the best putting 10 index players I took the 10 percent best putters so |
| 1:24.4 | you know these are they're way off on the end. Then they're the best |
| 1:27.5 | putters against the worst putters. And I just average their strokes gain per round. And |
| 1:32.3 | what's the difference, the shot difference between the best putters and the worst putters. |
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