Early on in this thread I said that I would do Bushy style stats for my next six rounds just to see how they compared. The six rounds are now complete, so I'll present the results.
I do not have Courty's talent with spreadsheets, or Bushy's system, so I'll just type them out and put Bushy's comparable stat in brackets.
Total Rounds 6 (6)
Par 72 (72)
Score Ave 83.66 (80.17)
Fairway Acc 63.40 (66.67)
GIR 44 (44.44)
Up/down 43 (3
Sand Saves 30 (12.5) Small samples, mine was 3 of 10, Bushy's 1 of 8
Putts 31.16 (31.5)
Par 3 +11 (+11)
Par 4 +43 (+3
Par 5 +14 (-1)
Low Score 81 (73)
High Score 88 (8
Off the tee 52/82 (56/84) My misses = 19 left, 11 right. Bushy = 14 left 14 right (I think, I forgot to look this up)
At the green 46% on (44.4) 3% over (9) 8% left (10) 11% right (10) short 30% (23). Most of my short ones were mishits, not under clubbing.
Putts total = 193 (189)
1 putts = 33 (34)
3 putts = 11 (7)
Putts per GIR = 2.1 (1.89)
2 putts inside 30ft = 95.7% (96.3)
2 putts outside 30ft = 55% (71.4). For me this was 10 of 19 - pathetic, isn't it.
Ave length holed per round = 35.5 (78.5) I had a lot of tap-ins.
Putts holed under 6ft = 92 of 103, 89.3% (67 of 71, 94.37%)
Putts holed 6 to 10 = 6 of 17, 35.2% (16 of 40, 40.00%)
Putts holed 10 to 25 = 8 of 43, 18.6% (2 of 14, 14%)
Putts holed over 25 = zero of 19 (1 of 10)
3 putts under 6ft = 0 of 103 (0 of 71)
3 putts 6 to 10 = 0 of 17 (1 of 40)
3 putts 10 to 25 = 2 of 43 (1 of 14)
3 putts over 25 = 9 of 19 (2 of 10)
Some of these stats aren't quite comparable. I counted GIR as approaches to greens rather than genuine GIR. Which means if I had a chip out and then hit the green from 150 with my third, I counted that as a GIR for the purpose of this exercise.
Bushy measured his proximity to hole distances, which I decided not to do. This stat gets skewed badly by a few really bad shots. I hit a shank today from 120m that was still 70m from the green for my next. Professionals don't hit shanks (except Webb Simpson), and they don't hit duffs and skulls, and I'm not really trying to compare my game to the pro game anyway.
So, what does this all mean. The obvious thing is that I'm a crap golfer, and I'm a crap golfer at all parts of the game. My long putting is the worst of all. Bushy is a slightly better golfer than me, according to these stats, but I suspect he is actually a fair bit better, and if I continued with this exercise the stats would show this.
Did I get the results I expected? Sort of. My driving is usually more accurate than in these 6 rounds, and my putting is often worse.
So, what's the point? For me this was a bit of fun to see whether my stats matched Bushy's. For a lot of things they were pretty close, which is why we are both off high single figures. Apart from that there is no point. If I was capable of improving certain aspects of my game I would, and I don't need stats to tell me that everything is a weakness and nothing is a real strength. I could practice my long putting all day, every day, but would it get better? Maybe, but practice putting is the most boring thing in the golfing world, so I'm not going to do it.
I notice that Bushy is updating his stats in his signature. I'll keep an eye on that just for fun, but I'm not going to keep my stats any longer.
Congrats to any reader who got all the way through this dribble.