Connor Stirling Peterson says golfers obsess over total scores when they should track tee shots, approach shots, short game, and putting separately. Monitor each skill in isolation, improve one at a time, and you'll see progress faster and play more consistently.
I think it's important to segregate out the skills in your game rather than looking at what you're actually shooting. What you're going to shoot on a day-to-day basis is going to be super random. But if instead you look at where each one of your skills is, your tee shots, your approaches, your short game, your putting, and you know exactly what metrics you're looking at for those specific shots, then it's a lot easier to see your game progressing even when you're not shooting your ideal scores. Because what ends up happening is you focus on one particular area, maybe some other area of your game breaks down, but it's not a big deal because you weren't really focused on it. So it's important to understand, separate out the parts of your game and really focus on one thing at a time. Try and keep everything else where it's at. And what'll end up happening is it'll be a lot less stressful when you actually play a bad round, and it'll be a lot easier to play good rounds.
