Curious, what stats do you manually track?

I have my own little system where I track the yardage of each shot and whether it was from the tee, fairway, rough, sand, etc and where it finished. I can keep track of it with cryptic notes on a scorecard and enter them in the spreadsheet pretty quickly.

Then my spreadsheet spits out all the strokes gained stats as well as a lot of old school ones. So I have: SG overall, SG putting, SG driving, SG approach, SG short game, median leave, SG other, # putts, # greens, # fairways, par breakers, score.

....dam son.

I kinda wanna see a pic of your scorecard now...

This is the worksheet where I enter in my shots. The orange cells are inputs. All of the white cells are things that are calculated:



Then I have another worksheet where I calculate cumulative stats. I have to manually link all of the round stats from the other worksheet which is kind of a pain.



Its a little complicated and clunky but it works for me.

This is a podcast Ship was on, figured I'd put it here in case anyone missed it.

http://themindside.libsyn.com/

Episode 73 for future reference.

Played Spanish Trail in Vegas for the first time today...decent course, in good shape...very "East Coast", tho, with the type of grass and rough.

Drove better today but my approach shots were ****, naturally. One double and no birdies - missed a two-footer for birdie, though, after sticking a 9-iron stiff.

43-42-85

Meh. Not bad for the first time on the course, I guess. It is eminently scorable, and I want to go back.

I think you will like Canyon Gate. 12 is a particularly fun par 3 at 243y from the tips.

this is an amazing listen...thanks for the link.

lol, i seem to have fixed my 30+ year driver issue by watching about 5 mins of a youtube video.

i took lessons when i was 9 and have basically been on my own since picking the game back up in highschool. i developed a severe banana slice shortly after and just never bothered to get help with it. it's the introvert in me.

so yeah...30 years later, i watch 5 mins of this video, realize i have the weakest grip known to man kind....and now i don't...and now i'm fixed.

looking forward to that skytrak showing up thursday now more then ever cause it's freaking hot, i hate going to the range and i'm pipping them straight down the middle of my cage now instead of either healing them off the left netting or, more likely, opening them up right off the right netting. never hit the back net once prior with my driver.

lol me.

here is the video. it's 3 parts, but it was the grip stuff i needed.

still on cloud 9. first time in my life i've been able to swing as hard as i want/can and not have it pull me completely off-plane



I can live with the high misses because it is the result of having a bad habit of teeing it up too high. working on that still. having no heal shots is huuuuuuuuuge for me

I could be wrong but I don't think hitting a driver high on the face is a big deal.

oh, much better then a heal...just not consistent. once it's consistent, you get to tweak and screw it up!

So yesterday, I took my GF to the TaylorMade Golf Experience in Vegas to hit some balls and see if she might like this game of golf we all are tortured by.

She hit some balls, liked it some, then wanted to go to the putting and chipping green. I explained to her that you had to play the ball as it lies when in the rough, because she wanted to move the ball some so it sat up nice and fluffy (don't we all?) She said, "That's a stupid rule."

On the putting green, we had a little contest to see who could get the ball closest to the hole...she accidentally made her ball move on a practice stroke, and I told her that would be a penalty, too, if she were really playing. She was like, "Seriously??"

Finally, she wanted to try to hit the ball from a bunker, and I again had to explain how you can't ground the club in a bunker or touch the sand at all before you make your swing.

She looked at me, incredulous, and said, "Are you just ****ing with me right now?"

I just laughed and told her no, but she went ahead and grounded her club anyway.

*insert some topical comment about how 'even the pros are doing it'*

The sweet spot on modern drivers is high on the face, that creates the high launch low spin action. The farther down on the face from there you hit it the more it spins. And toe is better than heel, that will make it spin even less if you can get away with the little toe hook or toe push knuckle cut dependent on your swing.

Regarding teeing it too high, your contact point doesn't necessarily mean you're teeing it too high. You can hit it high on the face from a low tee by hitting down on the ball which is completely opposite of what you want with modern drivers. Most amateurs tee the ball too low and then chop down on it. If you error too high this can create a slightly upward path through the ball which leads to more favorable launch conditions.

stick with it. few things better in life than finishing your coffee on a Sunday morning and your GF comes up and asks, "You wanna go golfing today?".

Just threw up a Golf themed Peehs game over in POG:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59...ugust-1621165/

Reveals in a week.

If you haven't played peehs before, it's a game of knowledge, guessing and strategy. I have posted a list of 10 golf-related questions. You're trying to give me correct answers that match as FEW people as possible. Some of the questions are a little challenging to get a correct answer, others are easy. You enter by sending me a PM of your answers.

IMO you should show her how to chip first it will help a ton with full swing and understanding how the club contacts the ball. But sounds like you guys mostly had fun which is all that matters for someone new!

I got this strange problem,whenever I can see a shadow of me over the golf ball my swing is completely messed up and can't even make a full swing. Such a weird mental thing.

I can never comprehend that other people don't have this problem. I'm a legit psycho when my shadow is over the ball.

Me 3.

It used to bother me. My fix has been to take an extra practice swing or two. Focus on what looking at the "ball" (where the ball will be in your stance when you address) and that the shadow is there but can be ignored.

Hmm never bothers me. When I play as a single sometimes I park close enough to the ball that the cart shadow is over my ball.