STRATEGY MISTAKES

Shot Scope has trawled through millions of ordinary golfers’ playing stats to reveal the true cost of those poor decisions on your scores.

Many golfers pine for a better swing or new clubs to help improve their game. However, the greatest improvement could come from simply playing smarter. Follow this 13 page guide to improve your strategic play.

We all have ideas about how we play the game, and where we lose shots… but how accurate are they? Thanks to modern shot data technology, we now know. Leaving approach shots shy of the green may be an accepted, common strategic error, but did you know the typical club golfer leaves four out of every five approaches short? Or that, on the greens, some 84 percent of putts over five feet also finish short of the hole?

These are just two stats thrown up by data capture system Shot Scope, which regularly crunches the numbers from more than 30 million golf shots, played over hundreds of thousands of rounds. But the folk at Shot Scope have taken this further to identify the nine most common strategic errors we all make, round after round. Poor decision-making that costs us all shots. The first step to fixing these mistakes is being aware of them; but we’ve also enlisted the help of coach Adrian Fryer to deliver some targeted technical help to make sure you can capitalise on this information.

After all, when you ally a sharper technique to smarter thinking, you create a formidable shot-slashing combination.

HOW SHOT SCOPE WORKS

Shot Scope’s award-winning V2 shot tracking system uses GPS to provide the golfer with an accurate assessment of every shot hit. Chipped, lightweight tags, screwed into the butt of each club, send data to a wrist-worn device, which reads every detail of how the club was used and moved. All activity is plotted on a course map to create a comprehensive and accurate picture of the golfer’s movement, and the results of each shot. After the round, users can access this information either through a smart phone app or online dashboard. Since its introduction, Shot Scope V2 has reduced its users’ handicaps by an average of 2.7 shots.

For more details visit shotscope.com