Date: 21 Aug 2006 00:25:22
From: Dave Lee
Subject: Tiger's Putting the Last Two Rounds
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In tracking my own golf game I use a table that defines 'decent putting'.
This table has 99 entries numbered 1-99. Each entry then has the number of
putts that define how many putts on average it should take me to hole out
from that distance (in feet) if I am putting pretty good (for me). As you
might guess the entries for 1 and 2 are 1.0 (I should make all my 1' and 2'
putts). For 3' it is 1.1 (miss 1 out of 10), for 20' it is exactly 2.0
(equal number of 1 putts and 3 putts). For 50' it is 2.25, etc. These values
are arbitrary and not based on anything specific. For a typical round I
average around 1 to 1.5 strokes more than this table says that I should take
for 'decent putting'.
In watching the last two rounds I took my best guess at the distance of
every putt that Tiger had and compared his total putting against my
definition of 'decent putting'. On Saturday Tiger was approx. 3.5 strokes
better than 'decent putting'. On Sunday Tiger was 6.5 strokes better than
decent putting.
Or put another way on those last two days Tiger putted about 6 strokes/18
holes better than I typically do (all other things being equal, which they
are not of course).
dave
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