Tracking Your Golf Scores
"Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s not fun. If you take it seriously. It breaks your heart"
If you are serious in golf, I bet you agree with the above quote.
You must have experienced the time when sometimes you think you have
moved to next level, only to find out in your next round, you are back
to square one.
I, for one, take my golf game quite seriously. Having said that,
please don’t assume I’m an accomplished golfer, a single handicapper,
or a scratch golfer. Far from it. But at least, I keep monitoring my
golf game, finding my weak spots, and trying to improve on them.
Finding our weaknesses in life is sometimes difficult. You need to
have a true friend, or a personality indicator test, or a coach to face
you with the reality. In golf, however, if we keep tab on our scores,
your golf statistics can be your true friend for this particular
objective.
Thanks for the marvel of technology, there are plenty of ways to
keep your golf stats updated. One that I have been using for 4 years is
a Palm OS application called as Intelligolf.
This application runs on any PDA or smartphone OS (Winmob, Symbian,
Blackberry), so you can always bring it with your PDA or phone to your
golf round, and enter your stats immediately.
Intelligolf does not only let you record your scores (golf strokes
and putts), but also some other vital statistics such as Green in
Regulations (GIR) percentage, fairway hit percentage, sand saves, and
your handicap. You can also put some notes on each hole on a golf
course. So on a Par 3 hole you may add note like "Blue flag, against wind: 6 Iron".
In short, as long as you bother to record every shot and every facet of
details in your golf round, you will have plenty of information to work
with. I’m not that serious though, but with me keeping my golf scores,
putts, fairway hits and GIRs, I can already identify where I need to
work on my game.
For example, looking at my current stat where I have fairway hits
percentage 53% but only 24% GIR, tell me that I need to hone mroe on my
approach shots. And furthermore, by looking how the GIR percentage is
very much close to my Par percentage (25%, see the graph below), I know
that if I improve my approach shots, I can get more Pars, and will get
my handicap down.
To enable you to scrutinize such data more closely, Intelligolf also
let you to synchronize the data with its desktop application in your
computer. You can produce different types of charts on selected golf
stats you want to see. If you also help your friends to keep their
scores, you can also monitor his game, and calculate his handicap.
I bought the software over the internet, and highly recommend it for
you who are serious in your golf game and enjoy statistics like me.
Drop me an email if you would like to know more about this software and
would like to give it a try. Happy golfing!
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