Every Shot Counts, Mark Broadie
Every Shot Counts, Mark Broadie
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Every Shot Counts
Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy

Author: Mark Broadie

Narrator: Jim O'Hara

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: G&D Media

Published: 02/01/2023


Synopsis

Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics and golf analytics to transform the game.

Mark Broadie is at the forefront of a revolutionary new approach to the game of golf. What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score? What part of Tiger Woods’ game makes him a winner? Traditional golf stats can't answer these questions. Broadie, a professor at Columbia Business School, helped the PGA Tour develop its cutting-edge strokes gained putting stat. In this eye-opening new book, Broadie uses analytics from the financial world to uncover the secrets of the game of golf. He crunches mountains of data to show both professional and amateur golfers how to make better decisions on the course. This eagerly awaited resource is for any player who wants to understand the pros, improve golf skills, and make every shot count.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on March 16, 2014

Should you go for the green or lay up? Putt aggressively or die the ball into the hole? Who scores better, a good driver or a good putter? Quantitative researcher Mark Broadie, a professor at Columbia Business School, member of the USGA handicap research team, and former club champion at Pelham CC,......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on April 05, 2014

Basically a long, but quite readable paper on statistical analysis and simulation of 10 years of Tour Pro Shotlink data plus significant amateur data. Results in some interesting and sometimes surprising conclusions. I can see many tour pro teachers tailoring their instruction based upon this type o......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on February 23, 2018

This one is on me, I guess. I thought this was going to be more of a golf advice book on how to (oh, I don't know...) "Improve my golf performance and strategy." Instead, it's mostly an academic paper proving why we shouldn't focus on putting and why certain shots (mostly, approach shots, then tee s......more

Goodreads review by Lewis Craig Brown on January 07, 2023

Great, understandable info about Strokes Gained Great, understandable info about Strokes Gained (SG). When I first heard the term used...with no more explanation, I didn't see it and wrote it off as "mathematical mumbo jumbo" which meant nothing to me. Even after seeing my SG numbers and how they comp......more

Goodreads review by Scott Thompson on September 21, 2014

Get out of my head, Mark Broadie. Golf. Statistics. Scatter plots. Regression analysis! Attacking a complex issue with numbers to take on "conventional" wisdom. Almost the perfect nonfiction book for me. Finished it in a little over a day.......more