Keep Stats - Now and Later

Your golf season is over. I'm sorry, it happens to most of us. This time of year is a great time to sit down and analyze your season. Looking back on how you played this year can be very helpful to the future of your game. Below are some things I want you to think about.

How well did I play this year?

What was the best part of my game?

What was my season highlight?

What was my low point?

Very basic questions, right? The above questions are great to think about, but there is one more I want you to ask yourself. Have I kept detailed statistics to see how I really did? I can almost guarantee that most of you do not keep detailed statistics throughout your golf season.

Statistics can be instrumental in helping you improve and possibly find the positives in your golf game. The PGA Tour players have the benefit of having someone else do this for them and tell them where their strengths and weaknesses are. Until you become that good, you need to do them yourself. Below are BASIC statistics I want you to commit to compiling in 2012.

Front 9 scoring
Back 9 scoring
Total scoring
Fairways
Greens
Putts
Sand saves
Par saves
Eagles, Birdies, Pars, Bogeys, Doubles, Etc.
1 putts, 2 putts, 3 putts
Par 3 scoring, par 4 scoring, par 5 scoring

Seems like a lot, I know, but these are the essential stats that can help you get better. If you are really crazy about stats, keep track of right and left shots (tee shots, iron shots, putts), penalty strokes, par breakers, etc. Go to pgatour.com and look at all the amazing stats that are computable to help your game. You can also find all kinds of applications for your phone on your respective carrier's website. Make a commitment to keep stats next year. It can only help!