EP5. The Statistics Tiger Woods Monitors And You Should As Well

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Welcome to the Mind Caddie podcast, the show that helps you improve your golf by improving the way you think. All of the ideas you hear in this podcast have been used by major champions and golfers at all levels and brought to you by the coach who taught them, Karl Morris. We bring you some of the most popular lessons found in the Mind Caddie app, as well as discussions with professional and amateur golfers about how they use their mental game to shoot better scores. So you can learn from others and apply to your own game. I'm Ben, the co founder of Mind Caddie, along with Karl Morris, who has spent the past 30 years working with golfers on their mental games. If you want to learn more, you can download the Mind Caddie app from the app store and access over a hundred audio lessons, as well as scorecards and guided programs. Search Mind Caddie on the app store today. It's clear that everybody has different reasons for playing the game and different things that give them pleasure. But I would say it would be pretty close to universal that if you could go out and play a game of golf and score better. It is going to give you a real sense of satisfaction the days, especially when you've not been perhaps at your best, but you've managed to think your way around the golf course really well and actually come off the course knowing that really it was a, it was a 71 when it perhaps could easily have been a 74 or 75 or whatever the relative scores are. to, uh, to where your game is at currently. And one thing I wanted to discuss in this whole area and this whole theme of scoring is the central idea that it is much, much easier to begin to reduce the amount of mistakes that you make, as opposed to making more birdies. It's lovely making birdies. It's a great thrill making birdies, but they're not easy to come by even for players at the highest level of the game. I saw a very interesting statistic the other day that suggested the basic difference between a 90 shooter and a scratch player in terms of birdies. is only two per round, which is a staggering statistic that literally blew my mind. And essentially, what is that saying? It's saying that the good player just makes a lot less mistakes, a lot less high numbers. And on that point, I wanted to discuss what I call or what was called the Tiger Five. These were the five statistics that Tiger Woods kept religiously, I presume still does. But certainly he did when he was completely dominating the game in the, in the early to mid 2000s when he was way, way ahead as world number one and the five statistics that tiger was very interested in being aware of number one was how many bogeys he had on par fives. Number two was how many three puts he made. Number three was how many double bogeys. Number four was how many blown easy chips from just around the green. And number five was how many bogeys he made inside 150 yards in terms of 150 yards approach. Now have a, have a look at those statistics, write them down. How many bogeys on par fives, how many three puts, how many double bogeys, how many blown easy chips and how many bogeys inside 150 yards. When I first saw that it appeared really quite negative. For me on negative as a view, but the more I've studied it, the more I've looked at it, what Tiger was keenly aware of was that his success was going to be down to actually reducing the amount of mistakes that he made. In particular, the first one is really important. I think for top class players, low handicap golfers, professionals, how many times do they come unstuck on par fives? Because there's the should word comes in, I should make a birdie when you never get hurt by a par on a par five. But if you stand on the tee, convinced that you're going to make a four and you walk off with a six or seven, that can really affect the momentum of the round. So I would suggest in terms of, in terms of scoring, you may want to keep your own version. Of the Tiger five, but the theme that we'll keep coming back to in the scoring sections will be about reducing mistakes, reducing mistakes, improving thinking to reduce those, those mistakes, which often come from mental errors. Yes, we'll also talk about making pars and birdies, but essentially the theme will be much more about reducing mistakes and allowing birdies to happen.