SUUNTO Golf - Manual (Page 6)

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GOLF GUIDE
The score of your golf round is the most important number in your game. The
one who scores the lowest is the winner. That is very simple, but how your total
score is actually made up is more complicated. Did you score well because of your
driving off the tee or your performance on the putting green?
You can divide your round of golf into games-inside-the-game . By taking a closer
look at each category of the game you can easily notice which part of your golf
needs to be improved for better results. By analyzing statistics we can also notice
the big gap between amateur golfers and professionals.
Pros hit their drives longer and more accurately. Off the tee, amateurs playing
with a high handicap often give pros 100 yards advantage. And tour professionals
usually hit the fairways when even advanced amateur golfers hit approximately
every third fairway.
The difference between amateurs and pros gets even wider when approaching
the green. When the best players in the world hit three out of four greens, for an
amateur golfer one successful approach shot in every four is a good ratio.
Up-and-down — the percentage of times a player misses the green in regulation
but still makes par or better — is a crucial factor in scoring. On professional tours,
the average up-and-down percentage of the top players is around 60, when high
handicappers usually manage up-and-down in only one out of five attempts.
The closer to a hole we get, the bigger the margins between pros and amateurs
are. Putting is often considered as a game of its own. And the putting surface is
the place where high handicap players give 10–20 strokes to the world’s best in
every round.
You can also examine your game after a round of golf by taking a closer look
how you did on par-3s, par-4s and par-5s.
Next time you tee off, remember to keep better score of your games-inside-the-
game. This is how you will be on the way to being a more improved golfer.
SCORING