Golf coach Connor Stirling Peterson shows how he validates swing changes with data. After adjusting a student's technique on July 7, the player's off-the-tee distance jumped immediately, with putting and short-game improving in parallel. He tracks everything through Circles metrics to prove practice work actually translates to better play.
All right, cool. So I just wanted to make this, uh, short video to kind of highlight one of the things that I kind of touch on all the time, you know, when I work with my players. We really try and stay focused based on whatever that player needs help with, you know, if they need help with, you know, their strategy or their mindset or which tournaments they're playing in, that's where we like to focus. But sometimes that does actually become, you know, hey, we need to swing the club differently, we need to improve our ball striking. This is a really good example of this. Um, and also kind of an example of, you know, the importance of using data to validate that the things that we're doing are actually helping us play better golf, right? Because I can say, hey, this is the best thing to do, but if I can't prove it in better results, well then it's kind of pointless here. So anyway, um, this is one of the students that I've been working with. And so we talked about his, um, swing here back. Technically it was on, let's pull this up. So technically the first time we talked about it was on the 7th. That was the first time he sent me swings. And, um, then you can see here in this text thread, um, October 14th, we were talking about it. And then I can go over here and look at his Circles data. And so we can actually see how his approach and his off the tee has been trending. So off the tee started trending up essentially immediately, right? So I know that this says this is like not very helpful here because we got this one back here, but all in all, where I see a very positive trend there directionally. This one, we see a little bit of a rough round here, not our best, but again, pretty similar to, uh, top of the tee. And then we see this continuation of improvement there in a pretty straight line. So that's pretty cool. And then across the board as well, we're also working on his putting. Putting's been very sharp. Um, sorry, he's putting over here. Um, but then short game's been very sharp as well. So anyway, I just wanted to kind of document this and share this with you guys, that this is what you want to be able to see. If you start making a change, you should be able to see in the data, hey, this is actually causing us to play better golf. And the way practicing is actually effective. You want to be able to prove that stuff.
