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eye opening to see 10 hcp's are only at 15%
I fall right in line with that though. I am around 11% percent according to my Golfshot app. Definitely an area i need to convert more, and I really dont think I have that bad of pitch and chipping game. Putting is my arch nemesis.Not on the internet of course...
I can't even figure out how to get to the 15% number - do you take GIR and bogey v par? Or FIR but not GIR for bogey?
I believe it tho. My scores climb when my short game isn't good.
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Short game skills are important, but his ranking doesn't match reality. Not according to all the current info gained from Shotlink.
"Mark Broadie, the Columbia Business School professor who came up with the strokes-gained-putting statistic now used by the PGA Tour, has devised a way to quantify the relative contribution to scoring of the long game and the short game, and his conclusion is probably not what you think. He is expanding this and other interesting new golf statistical research into a book for publication next year, but here's the take-away: Shots that originate more than 100 yards from the hole have twice the impact on score of shots from inside 100 yards—including putting. Long-game results account for about two-thirds of the variability in scores among golfers on the PGA Tour (the short game is one-third)."
"Guys say you have to have a short game to win tournaments and it is not the case. Not at all," Rory McIlroy said last spring. His comments sparked a controversy, but Jack Nicklaus rose to his defense. "I agree with Rory," Nicklaus said. "I never practiced my short game because I felt like if I can hit 15 greens a round and hit a couple of par-fives in two and if I can make all my putts inside 10 feet, who cares where I chip it?"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303753904577454662959172648
Short game skills are important, but his ranking doesn't match reality. Not according to all the current info gained from Shotlink.
"Mark Broadie, the Columbia Business School professor who came up with the strokes-gained-putting statistic now used by the PGA Tour, has devised a way to quantify the relative contribution to scoring of the long game and the short game, and his conclusion is probably not what you think. He is expanding this and other interesting new golf statistical research into a book for publication next year, but here's the take-away: Shots that originate more than 100 yards from the hole have twice the impact on score of shots from inside 100 yards—including putting. Long-game results account for about two-thirds of the variability in scores among golfers on the PGA Tour (the short game is one-third)."
"Guys say you have to have a short game to win tournaments and it is not the case. Not at all," Rory McIlroy said last spring. His comments sparked a controversy, but Jack Nicklaus rose to his defense. "I agree with Rory," Nicklaus said. "I never practiced my short game because I felt like if I can hit 15 greens a round and hit a couple of par-fives in two and if I can make all my putts inside 10 feet, who cares where I chip it?"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303753904577454662959172648
For a PGA tour player who routinely gets up and down I could this ringing true. They play a different game then we do.
Let me know where you are finding amateurs hitting 15 greens a round and I'll agree with you. Isn't the average GIR for amateurs something around 4? yea...completely different situation.
I agree somewhat, but the video is already comparing tour pros to amateurs.
A better way to look at is "if you can't putt, you can't score. if you can't drive, you can't play." It doesn't have to be a driver, but means performance off the tee in general.
eye opening to see 10 hcp's are only at 15%