2012 Pro Golf Synopsis Discussion

[Richie3Jack]

Feel free to post any questions or thoughts or whatever here.





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[dennyalberts1]

I would like to buy the synopsis. How do I?

[Richie3Jack]

Go to PayPal and pay $10 to [e-mail]. I will then mail you 2012 PGS.





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[Richie3Jack]

Hopefully, my latest column on GolfWRX will be up either tomorrow or Wednesday. It will feature something not discussed in 2012 Pro Golf Synopsis. When it comes up, I will post a link to it.






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[mchepp]

I have been studying GIRO score on my most recent rounds. When I started to do this I was quite excited because my scores are really quite good. I average around -3. My worry though is that this is more a measure of how good my short game is rather than how efficient I am when I hit a green.

My club has really small greens. Currently I hit 6 greens a round. (One note is that I have increase this from 4 with some really great work with Mike McNary). So average rounds are:

8 over - 13 missed greens -5 GIRO score

Richie my question is does the GIRO score really only apply to professionals and guys who hit a high number of greens? And when designing it did you take into account that a players short game can skew this efficiency number?

As another side note, for me the best indicator of my score is impeded shots which got a great deal of focus in PGS 2011, but not as much in 2012. The correlation of impeded shots and my score if analysed would be off the charts.

[Richie3Jack]

GIRO Score is probably best for 5 handicappers or better. It's to get the player more out of the mentality of having to hit a ton of greens just to shoot a good score.

As I noticed at the Tour events I went to in 2012 (Innisbrook and Bay Hill), the players whose metrics indicate they had the best strategy were very aggressive at going at the flag IF they had a decent enough lie and shot at the green. This changes a bit with the better strategic players that are super-bombers as they can be more aggressive off the tee.

Yes, I did consider that GIRO score does have to consider good short games. But, chances are if you miss the green and short side yourself you won't get up-and-down. So it's saying it's alright to miss a green if you give yourself an easy enough up-and-down opportunity.

So it's part ballstriking, part knowing what flags to go for and what not to go for, part missing the green in the right spot when you miss the green and part short game execution.

Also, impeded shots are huge. They are a giant part of the game.

I would just keep working at it. As I mentioned in the GolfWRX column, the numbers show that birdie putts are inherently more difficult to make...so you really need to fire at flags in order to make them. You just have to make sure you are firing at the right flags.




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