Putting is ______ % of your Score

by LSW | Jun 24, 2014 | News | 0 comments

We received this email a few days back and thought it provided a good opportunity to discuss just what percentage of a typical score putting amounts to:

Does putting really account for 42% of your score?

If you look at a broad overview of the numbers it stands to reason that the 40+% range is fairly accurate. Consider an 80s shooter who averages 36 putts and you end up right about at the 42-43% number. Makes sense… right? Well, maybe not.

Let’s look at the numbers again — this time keeping Separation Value in mind. Of the 36 putts the 80s shooter takes approximately nine of them are tap-ins (putts with absolutely no Separation Value). This leaves only 27 other putts. Subtract, further, the four putts (an average) that are within the 15-25 foot range (very little Separation Value) and only 23 putts remain. All of these remaining putts have reasonable Separation Value so they are worth counting in this breakdown. Take those 23 putts and weigh them against, say, 73 total shots (86 minus the nine tap-ins and four 15-25 footers) and it’s easy to see that putting actually accounts for only about 30% of the total strokes taken in a normal round… not the generally accepted 40+%.

We aren’t by any means suggesting you stop practicing putting but we are suggesting that you look hard at Separation Value and the statistics that govern your PracticePlan and GamePlan. Practice with a proper breakdown of skills and shoot lower scores.

Lots of Books Going Out

by LSW | Jun 23, 2014 | News | 0 comments

We just want to take a minute to thank those who have bought books so far, as well as those who will buy in the next few weeks, months, years… (??? :-D). We enjoy what we do partly because of all the great people we get to meet, talk to, and share ideas with on a daily basis. We’re getting to know the postal workers at our local post office on a first-name basis! That’s a great thing, as lots of golfers are learning how to shoot lower scores.

Lowest Score Wins is the result of years of thought and ideas. Though the book was written in about seven months, we’ve been working on these concepts for almost as long as we’ve been working together, and we hope that you like the results. We feel that this approach is comprehensive and has never been done before: we not only offer you ways to improve long term by building a PracticePlan and helping you to spend your time on high-SV skills, but we help you to improve immediately with the GamePlanning section, Shot Zones, and Decision Mapping.

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Welcome to Lowest Score Wins

by LSW | Jun 1, 2014 | News | 1 comment

Golf is unique: it’s the only sport in which the Lowest Score Wins. Golfers have been inundated for years with advice and sayings intended to help them shoot lower scores, like “spend 50% of your time practicing your putting” or “you’ve got to be in the short grass.”

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