How To Review Your Tournament Round 1

All right, so watching this video after you've just played your round of golf, this is really how I want you to evaluate it. So we've tracked our statistics, we know what we shot, and what I want you to do is look at our core stats that we're always looking at here. So in this case, we shot 8 over, we had a 22% birdie conversion rate, we had 50% of our greens, we 3-putted 16.6% of the time. We got up and down 37.5% of the time, and we hit one ball out of bounds off the tee or in a hazard. Okay, so when we're looking at that, mind you, we had a scoring average of 8. We want to look at that round and use our other rounds to give us context. That's why I say if you— this is the first round of tournament golf you've ever played, we don't want to make judgments here. We just want to look at and say, okay, cool, here's what we shot. How does it compare to the other rounds that we played? So in this case, let's zoom back out, looking at the last 10 tournament rounds, because that's the evaluation here that we're doing. And we want to scroll down and say, well, how does these— how does this compare? Greens regulation, 47%. Technically, that tournament did a little bit better, but we're pretty much at the same level there. Birdie conversion actually made a few more birdies than we do normally. Scrambling, pretty similar, right? 39.5 instead of 37.6, pretty similar. 3-putt rate, 10%. So that one was up, it was 16% in that case comparatively to 10%, so that was a little bit worse. And then let's look at our off-the-tee statistics. 5.56, pretty similar penalty rate here. So if we're reflecting on that round, well, we've got a scoring average of 7.5 in tournaments, and we shot 8 over in that particular round of tournament golf. So when we look at this, it's like, hey, if we wanted to improve that round, if we wanted to go back and say, what could I have done better? Well, it would be the same basic things that we would want to improve in general on this, you know, on this data set here. So, you know, we would want to be able to cut down 3-putt rate because 5% is very reasonable for 3-putt rate. So that's 2 shots right there. We we'd want to cut down penalties because it's very reasonable to cut down penalties as well. So that's another shot or two depending on if that was in a hazard or out of bounds. So that's 4 shots right there without having any conversation about how often we're making birdies, how many greens we're hitting, or how many balls we're getting up and down from around the greens here. So if we say, hey, we had a scoring average— or we shot, you know, 80, we very easily could have shot 76 just by, again, Cutting down a couple of the 3-putts, cutting down the penalty off the tee, just those two things makes a tremendous amount of difference. So we always want to be framing the round we just played in our overall statistics. Now let's say that round was terrible, right? Let's say we shot 20 over, right? Just the worst round. Uh, we want to look back at that round and say, what went wrong here? Odds are we're gonna have stuff like compound errors coming out, right? Where, you know, maybe our greens in regulation and our 3-putts, that stuff was all pretty normal, but we just had a couple of disasters when we got out of play. And so we want to sit back and reflect on that and say, hey, what could I have done differently there? Not that would have saved the entire hole or something like that, but what was the, the situation that I was in that I didn't handle appropriately? Maybe you were in a bush and you should have just taken a drop, but instead you tried to, you know, hit some type of hero shot or something like that. You want to reflect on those situations to understand why did this happen, why was that the case. And we also want to give ourselves a little bit of grace here. If you shoot 20 over par, odds are that that's an outlier round. We still want to reflect on it and be like, what happened here? But odds are, you know, unless there's some part of our game that is completely imploded for no reason, you know, that, that's almost certainly just an outlier. We want to treat it as such, be like, hey, it was a bad day, let's go run it again, let's just forget that ever happened. Right? The same thing's true in reverse. If you have a great round of golf, you want to look back and say, hey, you know, what went well, obviously. But that's a lot less valuable, to be totally honest, because in your bad round, you're going to see, hey, if the wheels come off, here's the problem. If you play good golf, everybody has the same stat line, right? We hit a ton of greens, we make a bunch of birdies, we don't really 3-putt, we don't hit balls out of bounds, we get up and down a decent percentage of the time. You didn't really learn anything there. You kind of got lucky, right? If you're playing way above your average, you, you really did get lucky. And that's not to say, hey, you didn't shoot that score. No, you absolutely did. Um, but it's just not as informative. You want to go back and reset for your baseline and be like, okay, cool, I'm glad I shot that round, that was awesome. Let's go back to these fundamentals here. What's the main thing I'm trying to improve? Let's stay focused on that rather than being overhyped about that. And at the same time, on the flip side, if you just played a really bad round of golf don't get overly down on yourself about it. You want to learn those lessons and then go back, fix those things, and then go play it again, right? So you always want to see the particular round statistics and then have our last 10 rounds give us context for the round we just played. So hopefully this makes sense. If you've got questions on this, you just played a tournament round and it was terrible, or you play a tournament round and it is terrible and you're embarrassed about it, shoot me a message. This is totally normal. You're— I've seen all of it, right? So it doesn't matter how bad a round you played, the worst thing you can do is be, you know, too proud to, to be able to admit, hey, I played a bad round of golf. All of us have played bad rounds of golf. All of us have shanked the ball off the first tee. Like, there's all sorts of terrible stuff that can happen in golf. That's why I'm here to help you through this and to give you the right context so you can continue moving forward. Because fundamentally, as it's always just going to be one of our basic skills that broke down. That's what we're going to be going back to, is figuring out, okay, how do we get this to handle the pressure better, right? There's a, there's a great quote, um, you know, I believe it's from, from the Bible, um, but essentially it says something along the lines of, you know, gold is tested in the furnace, right? And so what that means is essentially, like, if you're going to make something that's like really, really good, it's not because it's like this wildly complex thing, it's because it's been tested under pressure. Right? And that's really what I want you to view these tournament rounds, whether they're good or bad. It's, it's you're testing these things under pressure. Um, it goes on to say, it says, gold is tested in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation, right? And so, or the crucible of humiliation, something along those lines. So again, in the same way, obviously that's a Bible verse, um, but we can look at these tournaments in the same way as to say, hey, We're gonna forge your game in this furnace, in this crucible, um, and there's gonna be some humiliating things that happen, right? You're just gonna have some bad days where it's just extremely frustrating. That's actually where the work happens. That's where we learn. That's why it's so crucial to bring to the calls or to DM me about it and to talk about it so that we can really have that development in your game. The worst thing you can do is play a bad round and just get freaked out about it and just shut down. Right? That's how you know you kind of lost that battle there. Even if you find yourself losing that battle, first, first thing is just to recognize that's what you're doing. Get back on the horse, get support, and then continue on forward. So hopefully this was helpful for you. And again, if this is something that you're struggling with or, you know, just did struggle with, comment below. If there's something that I missed out, shoot me a message or bring it to one of the weekly calls.