What kind of stats do you all keep`?

Hi,

Recently been considering to get myself something to automatically gather my statistics, and I was wondering what type of stats everyone is keeping?

I know some who don't care for any other stat then strokes and yards (driving), but personally I like a much more in depth overview.

What do you all use for keeping track / what stats do you use

another question is what stats you all find useful. in most cases, they will be the same, I know, but some stats (at least for me) are just too time consuming to gather.

So I guess my two questions are:

What stats do you collect?

What stats would you like to have?

Thanks

/Chance

I keep my score. I am not a very technical player, and I certainly don't like thinking too much on the course.I really don't practice very much, but I play a lot,  so, in my case,I don't rely on stats.

3 Key stats to show you what you need to work on is  Gir, Fir and putts per round.  If you have a sky caddie you can keep track of these in the club sg feature and its not time consuming at all during you round.

I keep stats through an iPhone App called Golf Pro.  It's about 12-15$ and it keeps:

club used

distance

chips

putts

distance to hole on the green

penaties

sand shots

Fairways hit R, L, C, or missed

From this input it calcs the up/downs, bounce back, sand saves and then shows all the stats for the round; number of putts, avg distance on par 3,4,5's, etc

It sounds like a lot of input but it doesn't take but the amount of time it takes to walk off the green after you putt.

The stats don't lie and it will humble you!

Jim

I just keep track on my scorecard.  Despite being in IT I find I don't like using gadgets when I play golf for some reason.  I track the following right in the appropriate score box and usually just use it to decide what I need to practice in the next week or so.

• fairways
• green in regulation
• sand saves
• putts
• penalties

I should probably enter them on a spreadsheet this year or something, might be interesting to get a year over view of how I did.

GIR ( and my miss )

FIR ( and my miss )

Putts

I've been using the program "Scorecard."

On the course I keep my score, FIR (and which direction I miss if I do), putts, distance of my first putt, and GIR (and if I miss up and down and sand saves).  It only takes 2 lines on my scorecard and after inputting those into the computer it returns with an enormous amount of stats.

I tracked distances when I first got my rangefinder. I used this to aid in tee and approach shot club selection. I tracked FIR, GIr, and putts for a while too. After a while stats weren't necessary. It was obvious I need to keep the ball in play off the tee and get the ball to a decent position on my aproach. Whether tha position was on the the green, in a bunker, or a decent place to chip from, I needed to have at least a chance at a birdie.

Now all I track is score and putts per hole. I still make the odd note related to hole strategy or bag setup.

The stats that, in my opinion, really count (ie. are reliable predictors of eventual score and/or markers of fundamental improvement) are:

1) GIR

2) Putts per GIR

3) Scrambling %

Others I keep just because it's not hard to do so are:

4) Go For Its (Any time you get on or around the green in 2 on a Par 5)

5) Putts Per Round

6) FIR

I've been using www.oobgolf.com to keep track of many stats automatically.  They have a free phone app and it track more than I need but the basic ones I use are, Putts, GIR, Fariways, Ave for Par 3/4/5, handicap.  It tracks many more by just entering your hole by hole score.

I also like the ability to graph all the data and see how things are progressing.

This plus penalty strokes. I was thinking about tracking bunker shots but I don't see how that will help my game.

I use the golfcard app on my andriod.  After each hole I input fairway hit, strokes, putts, first putt distance, penalties, chips, and sand shots.  It takes less than 10 seconds.  You can also measure every shot you take, but I don't usually do that.  it uploads to ushandicap.com and I can see the following:

Putts per round, putts per hole hole, putts per GIR, GIR%, FIR%, left misses, right misses, avg drive distance, avg distance for each club, sand save %, up and downs %, scrambling %, bounce back %, par 3 avg, par 4 avg, par 5 avg, top scores, worst scores, most pars, most bogies, etc.  I can narrow by time or by course.

it puts it all on charts and graphs so you can try to make sense of it all.

Stretch, I've seen you post using Golfshot scorecards.  I use this app too... And it keeps 5 of those 6 very easily in a matter of seconds.

But I like your #4 (Go for it).  I'll have to start keeping that too.  But I'd add the shot distances of #4, and club used to get some successful %'s to make sense of the data.  Would be good to keep for sure and I'm going to start jotting it down for reference.

GIR, FIR, scoring average, ppr, ppgir, pphigthrye, okay I just made that one up

I enter fairway hit/miss, score and putts.  Skycaddie keeps everything else.  I use GIR, scrambling, and putting stats to plan my practice sessions.

Score

Putts

Gir

FIr

I keep the following stats on my scorecard (using free columns):

total shots (of course)

fairway hit:

- "x" when hit and at least 80% of my regular distance

- L/R for miss left/right, o if completely OOB

number of penalty shots

shortgame shots (if inside 50yds):

- "c" for chip

- "p" for pitch shot

- "b" for bunker shot

putting:

- number of putts

- initial putting length

- if missed, where and how

-  length "S"hort or "Long", 0 if perfect length

-  side L/R and if it's above or below the hole

sounds much, but is quite easy to handle, once you get used to it.

a typical hole stat could look like this (excluding the putting stats, which I don't do every time):

"4 x c 1"

which means, I hit the fw, missed my approach and made the up&down; with a chip and a putt.

a perfect hole would look like:

"3 x 1"

fairway hit, one putt for birdie

and my disaster holes sometimes look like this (thankfully not very often):

"9 oL 2 bbc 1"

first drive ob, next one missed the fw left, also a 2nd penalty shot because one of the transport/approach shots went into water, approach shot found a bunker, didn't get out of the bunker with the first try, didn't find the green with the second try, chipped and 1-putted for a spectacular 9 on a par5.

Using this method, I found out, that 55% of my shots took place inside 50yds, including putting.

More than enough I 2- or even 3-putted after an initial shortgame shot (chip/pitch/bunker).

so my focus on my training sessions went to the shortgame and putting (without ignoring the long game), let's see, what the upoming season will bring.

greetings

michi