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1/? This is meant to be educational. Faxon told people to not record stats in order to not dwell on missed 6' putts. Ruminating on missed putts is a symptom of another issue, & I do agree tracking stats during a round can impact that. BUT, the BENEFITS of REAL data outweighs...
2/? that negative by a mile. When you finish a round & think you left shots on the course & should have shot lower you are either not as good as you think you are OR you made mental/strategic errors. Most don’t have a plan to fix those mistakes & keep making them over & over…
3/?The real issue w/Brad’s tweet is how bad humans are at knowing what they are actually doing right & wrong -feel vs real. Below Brad says when he was putting his best he had to mark his missed putts coming back. I knew there was no chance that was correct so...
5/? I asked Lou to run the data to prove that. As you can see in Brad’s 5 BEST years during ShotLink (all top 10 in SG:Putting) he leaves over 30% OF ALL putts longer than 20’ SHORT! He leaves MORE SHORT than he hits 31” or more long. Why guess what you can measure...
6/? Brad’s tweet to not track stats was “liked” by 1600 people who will take that as gospel. Olin Browne said “every golfer know what they need to work on to improve”. No, they don’t, not without real data. A coach/player who takes Brad’s word about his putting aggression...
7/? will tell their players to putt more aggressively. I’ve long stated it is optimal for most to leave ~20% of putts from 10-20’ short, 25% from 20-30’ short, & 40% short from outside 30’. THAT IS ALMOST EXACTLY what Brad did in his BEST seasons…
8/? This is one of MANY stats that you can use to tighten up your scoring. Using data is how ALL of these youngin’s on ALL Tours are doing such great things so young. Brad is one of the greatest putters of ALL-TIME & he essentially has no idea what he did to be great...
9/? Having perfect speed is THE common trait amongst all great putters. Even still they have a MASSIVE range of speed outcomes. As a result they simply MUST leave quite a few putts short in order to optimize make rates & 3 putt avoidance…
10/? Once you’ve become great at a game you almost forget what it was like while learning to play. Brad, Olin, & Phil don’t remember the struggle to keep your brain organized because for them it has become 2nd nature. They did it by years & years of repeating the same…
11/ mistakes. Data, ShotLink, DECADElink, & math have shortened the learning curve by decades, literally. If tracking stats makes you ruminate on missed putts we need to address that b/c you are going to miss putts EVERY SINGLE DAY. You’re also going to make silly...
12/? Mistakes every single day. Post analysis like Tony Romo talks about :40 seconds into this video is by far the easiest way to eliminate those mistakes. I never learned to do that, which is a large reason why I didn’t make it on Tour…
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14/? Removing emotion from playing golf is a major goal of DECADE. Emotion can’t help you make above optimal decisions. If tracking stats makes you emotional you need to work on a meditation practice away from the course, like Tiger did/does…
15/? Tracking stats is how your shorten your learning curve in order to see the game like Brad now does subconsciously, even if he doesn’t realize it. The Coaching Moments feature of DECADE is the ONLY way to effectively go back through your rounds & LEARN to stop making them...
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19/? I didn't tag Brad here b/c it seems like doing so limits who sees the tweet. I did text him so he could interject if he wants to. TLDR: Tracking stats is BY FAR the easiest way to drop shots almost overnight by eliminating silly mistakes, AINEC.
