Hi there,
I remember the look on his face like it was yesterday.
It was complete despair.
It was the look of a golfer that had missed 10 of his last 11 cuts and was on his way to losing his European Tour card.
Confidence was gone and all his plans for turning around his game had dried up.
So we started the process.
During that first meeting I just wanted to find out where he found himself.
See, improving your golf works a lot like Google Maps, before it can tell you the route you need to take to your destination, it first has to find out where you currently find yourself.
Tournament golfers I find, all have similar destinations in mind, but they all start from very different locations.
As a former golf coach (www.bdga.co.za) and through my work with many different golfers, I have learnt the value of assessing a player thoroughly before starting to give advice.
But back to our Golfer...
Mentally he was not in a good space, it was written all over his face.
I knew his scores weren’t great, since it was published online and resulted in him missing all those cuts.
But how did his game fit together from round to round? I wanted to know what contributed to him shooting 71 or 77.
It turns out he had no record or stats of his own game other than his scores and his own opinions of how they happened.
So we immediately started tracking every shot he hit in tournament play. It soon became apparent that his Approach play was below par and the big area where he could improve his game.
From having that information we could look at his technique and see how we could adjust things to make himself a better Approach player.
Fast forward 9 months and this player won on the European Tour.
A pretty remarkable turnaround…
...and it all started by understanding his own game a little better and then coming up with a plan for improving his weaknesses.
So this is the backdrop to us creating the Golf Stats Coach app. We understand the importance for golfers and Coaches to have a clear picture of how a golfer gets to his scores.
Through Golf Stats Coach you can now identify the areas in your game you need to work on …
... so you can go from frustrated golfer, to the best golf of your life.
Till next time,
Martin
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