Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Dr Tan's Latest Thesis

For a golfer playing around 100, he is likely to use the Driver 14 times, the long irons or woods about 10 times, putter 36 times and pitching/chipping for the remaining 40 strokes.

Driver = 14
Long irons or woods = 10
Putter = 36
PW = 40
Total = 100

Thus, it is 75% short game. However, in a driving range you will find very few practising pitching or chipping. Most of us hardly practise putting.
Hence, to lower our golf scores, we have to invest more time in pitching, chipping and putting. An extra 10m in our drive will not help in our scores. But it is quite attainable to reduce 10 strokes with better pitching/chipping and putting (which accounts for 76 strokes on the average).

3 comments:

Jon No Turn said...

very true...gave away so many strokes to the course..and lost $$ to Robert somemore! gonna juz bring my wedges to the range this week!

Ernie Els said...

What's wrong with losing monie to Robert Karlsson..you lost because these guys are GOOD!!!

even Tiger said I did not trained hard enuff.

Steve Stricker said...

Doctor doctor! Please enlighten us what caused your score to balloon to 95!
I saw the web and you wre in the Konglong flight? wassup man!!
Based on the thesis, which part of the game crashed?
On the PGA Tour we observe every competitor and try to figure out why they do what they do and if they do what they do, what is their score eventually?
Experiential learning is very useful you know! I would like to learn from the Doctor too!