SUUNTO Golf - Manual (Page 15)

GOLF GUIDE
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To get up-and-down from a tough position is always rewarding for an amateur
player — and even for the best players in the world. Up-and-down means that
you can get the ball into the hole in two strokes from outside the green.
If your second shot on a par-4 is just short of the green and you make a chip and
a putt for a par, you’ve made up-and-down. In statistics, this category measures
up-and-downs as a percentage of the times the player misses the green in regula-
tion, but still makes par or better. It excludes sand saves — to get up-and-down
from green side bunkers — which is its own category in golf statistics.
When we take a closer look at the best players’ statistics, it is easy to see a corre-
lation between up-and-down and the money list leaders. The best of the best are
capable of getting up-and-down more often that the others.
For amateur golfers, it is very important to keep score of up-and-downs. If you
learn that it is difficult to save par from outside the green, you have to work
more on your short game to improve your handicap.
UP-AND-DOWN
FACT
UP-AND-DOWN is the percentage of times that a player misses
the green in regulation, but still makes par or better. Up-and-
down is also known as scrambling.