Understanding Strokes Gained Putting

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Imagine for a moment that you are the world’s Golf Dictator! Yours is the last word in golf and is played according to your wishes. However, you are a benevolent ruler and your subject’s love you.

Then, one day, you decide that all golf statistics are now illegal except for Strokes Gained. Strokes Gained?! Your loving subjects rebel! Has he gone mad? Nope! Not only are your benevolent, you are wise, for Strokes Gained might be the best way to understand performance and improve skill the game has ever known.

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In this article, I will explain Strokes Gained and the benefits it offers over traditional golf statistics. The majority of this material comes from the book Every Shot Counts by Mark Broadie.

Although it sounds obscure, Strokes Gained (SG) is actually a very easy concept.

Strokes Gained measures the progress to the hole in terms of the average number of strokes to hole out. It’s a simple calculation – just subtraction. And it is independent of your club selection.

EXAMPLE
Let’s imagine your ball is in the fairway where, according to historical data (based on both actual measurements and computer simulations), the average number of strokes to hole out is 3.5. You hit that shot and the ball ends up in a spot where now the historical average to hole out is 2.7 strokes. That shot would earn you a Strokes Gained of -0.2.

In other words, you used 1 stroke to advance the ball 0.8 strokes closer to the hole! The actual math is this: 3.5 – 2.7 – 1 = -0.2. Over time you will accumulate Strokes Gained values for a variety of shots.

Imagine your accumulated Tee Shot Strokes Gained is -0.5. That would mean, against your comparison group, you are losing 0.5 strokes for every tee shot on average. Driving the ball might be something to practice.

WHY MIGHT STROKES GAINED BE A BETTER STATISTIC?
1. Strokes Gained captures the quality of every shot

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