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Not at all limited to, but a couple recent threads got me thinking how many people feel that stats and/or data studies make them better. Recently we have the thread with the study about irons play percentages. We most recently have another about distance in feet putted. Not just those two threads , but we often enough and almost pretty regularly through the years have threads about the different stats we may or not keep, and also sometimes we post of data studies and sort of use those for the same purpose.
I totally understand that keeping stats can be fun. And so can reading about interesting data facts and many people like to do it just for the sake of it or simply to be more rounded with knowledge. I generally keep a small record of a couple few things on my own score card for that round as im playing it for review after the round but after that its in the trash.
Whether stats or data studies are about GIR's , FW's, putting feet, up/downs, etc you name it the list can go on for a while and we can even make our own stats for whatever we may like. Its all fine and dandy, right?
But here is the one part i dont really get. actually two or three parts. First one being is, do you really need a kept stat to tell you where you been lacking? i ask that because I dont get how one couldnt know which areas of their game is lacking. I mean so you play a round/s of golf,....if you dont keep any stats you would really have no clue how you did in each area of the game? I find it pretty hard "not" to know how good or poorly I was at any part of my game. I dont need a stat to tell me that my chipping has been bad or good, or that my tee game has been bad or good, etc... I just think most anyone has to know how they been doing without needing the stat to show them.
Another things is that most every stats and even data info studies can be misleading because it is often skewed. Just one small example could be using a stat like up/down (or scramble). Many would want to use that stat to tell them how their green side cipping/short pitching game is doing. But it doesnt take into account anything outside of par. I mean you can miss 4 U/D attempts for par today but you did get U/D 6 of 7 times for bogey or even worse as you were sitting 3 or more before beginning your U/D attempt but thats not accounted for in a traditional scramble stat. . i can go on with a couple more things about just how that one stats can be very skewed if you think its going to tell you about your greenside game. But this is not about the one stat and was just one small example to make the point of how stats can be misleading. This would hold true for many stats.
lastly,....just because you know (or learned) that your lacking in a given area of play does not in itself make you any better at it. I mean people might say due to GIR stats that they are not hitting enough greens. Well, (as said) i think you would already know this without keeping the actual stat. But also, simply knowing this does not make you better at it. I mean its not like as if you are to be so thankful that the stat told you to hit more greens and now that it did you will magically start to hit more of them. I see many times in enough threads where people will sort of imply that now they will be better at something simply because of some stats. It not like ability all a sudden will now be better. I mean just the one stat of GIR is that not something we all try to do all the time anyway? Knowing the numbers doesnt make you better at it. Putting?irons?tees?chips? whatever it is, we dont need stats in order to get better and we know where we are lacking most imo anyway and we most all try to be as good as we can with that lacking area and any parts of it all.
I totally understand that keeping stats can be fun. And so can reading about interesting data facts and many people like to do it just for the sake of it or simply to be more rounded with knowledge. I generally keep a small record of a couple few things on my own score card for that round as im playing it for review after the round but after that its in the trash.
Whether stats or data studies are about GIR's , FW's, putting feet, up/downs, etc you name it the list can go on for a while and we can even make our own stats for whatever we may like. Its all fine and dandy, right?
But here is the one part i dont really get. actually two or three parts. First one being is, do you really need a kept stat to tell you where you been lacking? i ask that because I dont get how one couldnt know which areas of their game is lacking. I mean so you play a round/s of golf,....if you dont keep any stats you would really have no clue how you did in each area of the game? I find it pretty hard "not" to know how good or poorly I was at any part of my game. I dont need a stat to tell me that my chipping has been bad or good, or that my tee game has been bad or good, etc... I just think most anyone has to know how they been doing without needing the stat to show them.
Another things is that most every stats and even data info studies can be misleading because it is often skewed. Just one small example could be using a stat like up/down (or scramble). Many would want to use that stat to tell them how their green side cipping/short pitching game is doing. But it doesnt take into account anything outside of par. I mean you can miss 4 U/D attempts for par today but you did get U/D 6 of 7 times for bogey or even worse as you were sitting 3 or more before beginning your U/D attempt but thats not accounted for in a traditional scramble stat. . i can go on with a couple more things about just how that one stats can be very skewed if you think its going to tell you about your greenside game. But this is not about the one stat and was just one small example to make the point of how stats can be misleading. This would hold true for many stats.
lastly,....just because you know (or learned) that your lacking in a given area of play does not in itself make you any better at it. I mean people might say due to GIR stats that they are not hitting enough greens. Well, (as said) i think you would already know this without keeping the actual stat. But also, simply knowing this does not make you better at it. I mean its not like as if you are to be so thankful that the stat told you to hit more greens and now that it did you will magically start to hit more of them. I see many times in enough threads where people will sort of imply that now they will be better at something simply because of some stats. It not like ability all a sudden will now be better. I mean just the one stat of GIR is that not something we all try to do all the time anyway? Knowing the numbers doesnt make you better at it. Putting?irons?tees?chips? whatever it is, we dont need stats in order to get better and we know where we are lacking most imo anyway and we most all try to be as good as we can with that lacking area and any parts of it all.