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Three-Putts Per Round, by Handicap
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Three-Putts Per Round, by Handicap
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
In today's newsletter, I want to show some statistics on how many three-putts you should expect per round per your handicap.
Before I do, however, I want to tell you about a test I performed to verify what was stated in last week's newsletter re: The Science of Swearing. I tried it - per my own advice at the end of each newsletter - and I liked it.
Last Friday, my progressive resistance workout routine had me scheduled for three sets of six reps of my bench press in my basement gym. I did sets one and two, and on the sixth rep of the second set I struggled to get the last rep up, but I did get it done.
During my two minute recovery period, I hollered upstairs to my wife to tell her to ignore some swearing that she may hear coming from me in the basement.
Then I proceeded to vigorously swear out loud for the last 15 seconds of my recovery period and went directly to the bench. (For what it's worth, I felt sort of enraged 😄). I got 7 reps up and probably had another rep in me but didn't push it.
The swearing really did the trick, and as far as an application for golf - I can't wait to try it on par 5's (with the right foursome of course) when I'm trying to squeeze some more swing speed into my drive.
Three-Putts
I saw this info in Lou Stagner's newsletter. He published some putting data from ArccosGolf re: how often players across skill levels three-putt or worse during a round
Across the top, it shows how many three-putts (or worse) happened in a round.
- Scratch (0 index) golfers have zero three-putts (or worse) in 36% of their rounds. In More than 1 out of 3 rounds the typical scratch golfer has zero three putts (or worse).
- 5-index players? 26% of rounds with no three-putts (or worse).
- For 20-index players, that number drops to just 7%.
- To make matters tougher for higher-handicap players, rounds with five or more three-putts (or worse) happen a whopping 28% of the time at the 20-index level.
If you fall into a high three-putt category, invest in an inexpensive 9 foot putting ramp and hit ten putts per day, five times per week, and I guarantee that your three-putt percentage will drop.
Try it, you'll like it!
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