Top 5 Stats to Improve Your Golf Game (Strokes Gained edition)
There are lots of different stats available, and it can be difficult to know which ones to focus on. Here are the top 5 stats to improve your golf game [...]
Traditional Stats
This is part 2 of our 'What is Strokes Gained' series. To view the first part, click here. Here are some of the issues with these traditional golf statistics: Driving [...]
What is Strokes Gained?
A detailed walk-through of how Strokes Gained works and how to use its methodology to your advantage by NOT comparing to the tour, but to yourself. The 2018 SG:Total [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Strokes Gained Works
Golf has for a very long time struggled with coming up with a way to measure performance. Traditional golf statistics such as fairways hit, greens hit and other similar variables [...]