ScratchStats Tips

ScratchStats Tips • Red Zone

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• It's great to have an FIR, but you need to follow up this effort by hitting the greens in regulation.

• Your mental attitude will build with confidence when you see that your GIR's are improving.

• There are 7 elements for you to monitor here. As in the FIR category, you use checks and numbers to log in your stats.

• If you plan a strategy where you focus and improve on any one of the 7 elements, then that one area alone will elevate your overall scoring performance, guaranteed.

• The key is to have a clear plan, then set about achieving those goals. Plan your improvments in small doses. You will retain more of what you learn, and at the same time enjoy the process.

Your efforts to place your shot on the green (GIR), is the most relative statistic when you combine this with your FIR statistics.

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• How many times do you hit the fairway in regulation? And when you do, what is your percentage of success in then hitting the greens? Can you stand make a little improvment? If you can, then the ScratchStats Scoring System™ can be an invaluable tool to help you achieve your goals.

• One way to use this catagory is to analyze when you do not have a GIR. This may sound backward, to analyze a negative, but it can also be revealing. What this perspective will tell you is whether you can scramble, innovate, overcome or find a constructive workaround to the inevitable moment when you have to have a sand save, or an up and down to win a match.

• Based on that last scenario, you would think you would need to be a dynamite putter, but no so! You need more than that. Why? Unless you are 6 feet away or less with your approach, then most likely, your chances of salvaging a par are dim. Why? Well, ask yourself, how often do you routinely sink 12 footers?

• One solution is obvious. You need to spend constructive time practicing your short game. If you can narrow the gap beween the ball and the hole, well... you see what we mean! It's not the most physicaly demanding part of golf, but it requires every ounce of mental effort you can conjure up to gain in proficiency by even 10 to 20% over where you are right now... and where you need to be.