Improving Your Golf Score - Part 2

I don't want you thinking that I'm intentionally misleading you. This blog is not about different techniques to use to improve your game. This blog is about ways to quantify if something you change is actually working or not. Say, for example, you just started playing golf. You golf for 3-4 months and learning as you go. You read articles online, watch the Golf Channel, or any other free advice you can get. While you're doing this, you're keeping track of your statistics. Then on the 4-5 month you start to take private lessons. After 3-4 months more of taking data, you can actually see if those private lessons helped, you can see if the private lessons increased your learning curve and all sorts of other things.

Improving Your Golf Score - Part 1

Golf is perhaps one of my favorite hobbies. When I first started out I wanted to find someway to be able to track and quantify my improvements over time. I came up with an easy way to see how I was improving and how to identify things I needed to improve on. I would gather data on every shot that I took on the golf course, then I would analyze it, and then hit the driving range with the new information. Getting the data for the analyzing is simple and easy - all you need is what you already have, the scorecard and a pencil.

What I am about to show you helped me get my handicap down from 35+ to ~20 in 6 months of golfing about 3-4 times a week. It is not for the weak hearted as it is completely and brutally honest. For best results, do not exclude any shots that you take - even that shot from the brush where the pine cone went further than the ball.