Tracking Stats to drive Practice Strategy

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Thought of sharing how I keep my stats and how it helps drive my practice strategy. I started really playing in November 2010 - before that I knew how to swing the club and played about once a year and scored between 95-100.

I usually keep track of the majority of my scores and I think the volumes now are sufficient to be statistically significant. My home course is a Par 72, CR - 71.4, SR - 137, 6900 yards with only 2 Par 5s and 2 par 3s. So the GIRs are likely to be a little lower.

Here are the three aggregate stats I keep track of.

1. Handicap Trend :

2. Year over Year Aggregate Stats :

3. Efficiency Stats :

What this helps me in is setting realistic goals and practice strategy around it

1. Based on my handicap trend line and also accounting for the non-linearity as handicaps get lower I should target for around 4.0 USGA Index by the end of the year.

2. My long game sucks at my handicap level, my goal should be to hit 9 GIRs average in my home course,  by the end of the year bringing it to around  50%.

3. Putting average goal should be around 30. I miss more than 50% of my putts 5 feet and below, that's where I need to put my time in.

4. Short game is  not too bad - but the goal should be about 55% U&D; and 45% Sand saves, but this statistic is also likely to be better at the same effort level if my GIR or near GIRs improve.

So I think my practice strategy should be

1. 65% long game

2. 20% putting

3.15% short game

Appreciate comments, any other statistics that you think one needs to follow and insights.