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<\/p>\nAmi Gianchandani stood on the first tee of her first golf practice at Yale University in 2018 and had no idea what her coach was talking about. The coach had told her, \u201cKeep your stats,\u201d and Gianchandani was at a loss. She hadn\u2019t kept stats before. She learned that Yale used an app, but she quickly found it to be clunky and slow. It wasn\u2019t what elite amateur players were looking for, and Gianchandani knew it because she was an elite amateur player. When the pandemic hit a couple years later, pausing college golf, Gianchandani took it as an opportunity to take a year off and build a stat-tracking app that she and her competitors would actually want to use. Accel Golf was born.<\/p>\n
The app doesn\u2019t require you to pick up your phone every shot and input data. Instead, you print out a sheet and keep your stats on there, like you would on a scorecard. After the round, you scan the sheet with your phone and the app does the work calculating your stats. On the stat card, players keep track of each shot. You\u2019ll write down how far you are from the hole on each shot, where the shot landed (fairway, rough, green or sand), whether it missed to the left or right, long or short, and you\u2019ll record if you received a penalty. It\u2019s a relatively small amount of information to write down, and you get a lot of data from it.<\/p>\n
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Accel Golf LLC<\/p>\n
Accel Golf is a few years old now, and it\u2019s being used by elite golfers across the country. The USGA\u2019s National Development Program has their players use the app. As do some college teams. If you\u2019ve been watching the ANWA, some players in that field have been using the app. Your game would benefit from stat tracking, too.<\/p>\n
Gianchandani thinks that all average players should be paying attention to three key stats:<\/p>\n
Greens in Regulation, by Yardage <\/p>\n
Keeping track of how many greens you hit is one thing, but tracking GIR with your distance to the hole is an elevated way to look at the stat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for casual golfers to understand that there\u2019s a big difference when they have a pitching wedge, versus a 5 iron, versus a hybrid into the green,\u201d Gianchandani says.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important because it\u2019ll show you what you need to work on. Maybe the stat will show you that you\u2019re only hitting 15 percent of greens when you\u2019re 150-160 yards out\u2014so there\u2019s an opportunity for growth. And it\u2019ll also teach you some course management. Because maybe you hit 80 percent of greens when you\u2019re 100-110 yards out\u2014that means you should lay up to that yardage because you\u2019re likely to hit the green from there.<\/p>\n
Putting Make Percentage, by Distances <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s your make percentage on three-footers, four-footers, five-footers, all the way up to 35-footers?\u201d Gianchandani says. \u201cThis is important to know and to track because it helps manage your expectations on the course, because so many amateurs think they should be making all the putts from inside six feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd everyone wants to make all of them, but when you see the benchmark in the app that\u2019s like, Even PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros are only making 80 to 85 percent of these, it\u2019s so eye-opening for the regular golfer to see: I don\u2019t actually need to make all my six-footers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Strokes Gained <\/p>\n
This is an often talked about golf stat. Gianchandani describes it as, \u201cHow many shots are you gaining or losing per round compared to a certain benchmark?\u201d So, when you hear Nelly Korda\u2019s strokes gained\/pff the tee stat is 2.1, that means she\u2019s gaining 2.1 shots per round on the rest of the LPGA\u00a0 players with her drives.<\/p>\n
In the Accel app, there are options as to which benchmark you want to compare yourself against. You can compare your strokes gained against other handicaps, groups like \u201celite juniors\u201d or the tours. The app uses its own data and data that is accessible online to create these benchmarks. Strokes gained is most accurate when all of the shots recorded are hit by golfers on the same course, on the same day. So while comparing yourself to golfers playing on different courses, in different conditions, across the country isn\u2019t a perfect measurement of strokes gained, it can still give you a sense of where you game stacks up.<\/p>\n
The four main categories are putting, chipping, approach and off the tee. But then these are broken down further. Suck as strokes gained\/putting from 20-25 feet, or strokes gained from out of the sand from 15-30 yards, and so on.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s really important about strokes gained is that you\u2019re constantly being able to compare yourself to a certain benchmark in the in the best way,\u201d Gianchandani says. \u201cSo, if an amateur is trying to break 90 for the first time, they\u2019re gonna be able to bring up the the strokes gained stats of a golfer who has a 10 handicap and say, \u2018OK, compared to this golfer with a 10 handicap, I\u2019m losing three shots putting, and only one shot chipping, and I\u2019m actually gaining a shot on approach, and I\u2019m losing two shots on my driver. Based on that information, there\u2019s a very clear path forward. That\u2019s the best part about strokes gained. If you can understand: Losing strokes means you\u2019re doing worse than expected, and gaining is you\u2019re doing better than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stat tracking apps have come a long way since Gianchandani\u2019s first pracitce at Yale. As has her relationship with stat tracking. She knows it\u2019s made her better, which is crucial as she\u2019s transitioned from an elite amateur player to a professional golfer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the biggest things is constantly reminding myself of what I\u2019m good at, because I think so many people who are hard on themselves, pushing themselves to get better, it\u2019s not often that they can sit back and be like, \u201cI actually played really well today, or I struck my irons really well today,\u201d and when you have the stats in front of you that say you played well, you can\u2019t really refute that. So for me, it\u2019s been a big confidence boost, as well as I think an edge in course management,\u201d Gianchandani says.<\/p>\n
Stat tracking doesn\u2019t just tell you what you need to work on; it gives you insight into what you\u2019re great at. And knowing that will influence your decision making on the golf course. You\u2019ll be able to set yourself up for success, more often.<\/p>\n
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