Why I Dont Like Strokes Gained #shorts

Name: Why I Dont Like Strokes Gained #shorts
Uploaded: 2026-01-29T19:02:43+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Connor Peterson
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker critiques the popular "strokes gained" metric for golf analysis, arguing that it is too abstract to guide concrete…

29 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker critiques the popular "strokes gained" metric for golf analysis, arguing that it is too abstract to guide concrete improvements. He advocates focusing on two practical statistics: greens in regulation (GIR) and proximity to the hole. He explains that while GIR is a clear, actionable target—players can understand and work on hitting more greens—proximity tends to self‑correct once GIR is addressed, and cases of high GIR with terrible proximity are extremely rare. By tracking these specific stats, coaches and players can pinpoint why a golfer is shooting certain scores and implement tangible changes.

versus if I say I want you to hit one more green per round, they can understand what that means. They can say, oh, I need to hit the green. Okay, cool, I can see that. I can actually go and try and implement that. Now, if we have a case where we have super high greens regulation and we have terrible proximity, okay, fine, like we can, we can solve that problem at some point if that is actually a problem. I've almost never seen that be the case. I see very, very rarely super high greens regulation and crazy bad proximity. So proximity takes care of itself. We need greens regulation. Anyway, that aside, we need to track these statistics so we can actually see what's going on in the player's game. We need to know why they shoot the numbers that they shoot.