Using Golf Stats to Manage Your Game with OOB Golf
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 10:18 AM EDT
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PrintOn Sunday, the fiancee and I were able to hit the local links near my parents' home. The place is called Compass Pointe and is a 36 hole public facility completed around 2003. I played nine on Friday and shot 40 or 41 - a solid round at a familiar course, so I wasn't really paying attention. I am not very familiar with Compass Pointe, though. I may have played there a handful of times and didn't usually score well. It was pretty warm, too, so I had to hydrate myself a lot.
Anyway, I've always been in the practice of tracking stats on my scorecard. (Matt Gullo would be proud of that.) I track strokes, fairways hit, GIR, and putts per green. If there is something else remarkable, I write it down on the card. Normally, though, I don't use the data beyond that round because I don't take the time to plug it into a spreadsheet for analysis.
Well, I'm trying something a little different this year and will track my seasons using OOB Golf. I created a free account over there that will let me track my scores and stats, just as though I would on my card.
I just finished entering my score from Sunday and it took like 5 minutes. I plugged in all of the stats that I normally use and then OOB Golf produced stats for my round.
I found out that - like Tiger Woods - the more GIR that I hit, the better that I did in my round of 86. I definitely should have shot in the 70s if I played to my potential, but now I know what I did wrong. It's great for practice and tracking.
If you're a stat guy like myself, then I would highly encourage you to check out OOB Golf.
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192 yard 6 iron ? and no roid rage by the end of the round ? :-)
nice printout. I like the putts per green at the end.
Did you make any notes on where you were missing fairways and if you were in bad enough position to make hitting the green in regulation difficult ?
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Haha, in the last couple of years I have been striking the irons really well. But, that leaves me with weird gaps at the wedges.
I usually keep track of how bad the misses were with scathing comments to myself like “WTF” if I miss way badly. Most of my misses gave me a decent chance to still hit a GIR unless I caught a lousy lie in the rough.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions
well clearly you need to consult with the Great Pelz so you too can carry 7 wedges and get rid of those gaps !
Have you considered doing a fitting that goes through your whole set and having your lofts adjusted to solve that problem ?
I used to play with a lady who had (9) 7-irons in her bag. Every one of those clubs went the same distance as her 7 iron. :-)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Hahaha, that’s awesome. I have good, defined distance ranges for almost all of my clubs. With the wedges, it is the width of those ranges that is tough. They’re about 20 yards when they should really be closer to 10. But, that can be overcome if I actually just practiced with ’em more :)
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Tom Kite used to tape his wedge yardages on the shafts of his wedges. Full swing – 3/4 swing – half swing – 1/4 swing with each of his wedges. From there, all he had to do was factor in the weather, spin, green hardness, slope, etc and pick the club from whatever range he needed.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
That’s what I have to get to, which is kind of something from the Pelz book. Have 3 swings with each wedge and you have 9 dialed in distances.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Me! Got engaged on Easter weekend and wrote a lil post about it.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
DANG !! And I didn’t know you even KNEW Sienna Miller before Easter weekend !!! :-D
I missed it – congrats !! Ceremony at Augusta National ? The Old Course ? The Elvis Chapel in Vegas ? :-)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Funny you should mention a course. Our reception is going to be at a golf resort in the Laurel Highlands of PA called Chestnut Ridge.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
hmmm… I keep most of that information. My spreadsheet gives me about the same thing, without the pretty Web interface. And the whole world won’t see that I didn’t break 90 because I took four putts on the 18th.
Truth has a well-known liberal bias.
haha, I don’t think anyone would see it if I didn’t publish it here. The nice thing about OOB is that it has the yardages, slope, etc, preloaded so I don’t have to add that in there.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Sorry to be a smarta$$
But if you land the ball in the proscribe number of shots relative to par, you will do better than when you don’t? Amazing.
It ain’t robot science.
Haha, that’s something I would say. Don’t worry about it.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 27, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Ratedgolf.com
I track my stats on Ratedgolf.com. They provide you with all the stats you could want. Its a new site so not many people on it but it works pretty well
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