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Fairway Bunker Tendency
Fairway Bunker Tendency 📈 Stat of the Day 📈 Today we look more closely at Fairway Bunker Tendency. This statistic counts the number of times a tee shot on a
Rough Tendency
Rough Tendency In today’s installment of our ‘Stat of the day’ feature, we are focusing on ‘Rough Tendency’. It is an ‘Off the Tee’ statistic that measures how many percent
Percentage of Hole Distance Covered by Tee Shot
Percentage of Hole Distance Covered by Tee Shot Today’s golf stat highlight is ‘Percentage of hole distance covered by tee shot’. It is defined as :”For par 4’s and par
Golf Driving Accuracy
Golf Driving Accuracy Driving accuracy is defined as “The percentage of time a tee shot comes to rest in the fairway (regardless of club)”. It is a binary statistic, meaning
The Driving Distance stat should measure your true driving distance.
Golfers in general typically think that we ‘normally’ hit our clubs exactly as far as we do when we test them on the range, perhaps with a launch monitor. This
How can two people with the same make percentage have different Strokes Gained performances?
Super interesting things happen when we are able to also view Strokes Gained putting when evaluating putting performance. Traditionally, we have just looked at the number of putts to evaluate
The case for a Women’s Strokes Gained.
One of the most “annoying” things about the Strokes Gained variable is that 0.000 is an average male tour player. This, of course, is by design, since the tour that
How the men’s teams in the Pac-12 are sharing their statistics
For the 2017-2018 season, all of the mens’ teams in the Pac-12 Conference came together and decided that they wanted to unify the way they deal with golf statistics. The
Deciding on a relevant context for comparisons
We really like the way the Strokes Gained methodology works. It catches nuances of the game that would otherwise go unnoticed and gives you way more information on what actually
Thomas Petersson
Thomas is a professional golfer and has played events on the European Tour, Web.Com Tour, Asian Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia as well as on PGA Tour China/Canada/Latinoamerica. He built Anova.Golf® when no existing products could answer his detailed performance questions. The resulting information from Anova™ was astonishing: what he thought of as his biggest strength ended up being his biggest weakness.
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