The ten things winners do that the rest of the field does not, ranked by the strokes they are worth, set beside our own players, and the five Clutch Factor stats.
139 rounds
35 winners, every event with full shot data.
1,034 rounds
313 players from 2nd place to the missed cut.
20 cards
Our tournament players, scores hole by hole.
Every hole matched to the official card and graded by our own engine. The tour file names no clubs and no pins, so those rules are not graded here. No player is named.
Strokes a round = the gap in that situation × how often the rest of the field faces it. They overlap, so they do not add up.
Say: winners take the big number out. Plan: the worst case on every tee is a bogey, never a double. Review the doubles first.
Say: when you get there, score. Plan: long approaches mean the irons are the work; close ones, the putter.
Say: the hole after a bogey has one job, a par. Plan: normal club, fully committed, middle of the green.
Say: the one green almost everyone can hit in regulation. Plan: lay up from the fairway, as close as it allows; two dead zones, 40–74 and 121+.
Say: a bad lie already cost the margin. Plan: carry by 15 or lay back by 15; back to a normal lie, the bogey before the double.
Say: shots you already own. Plan: every putting session starts inside 6 feet until it holds.
Say: you don’t need the lead, you need the plan. Plan: the first six holes level or better, on the low-stress option.
Say: for most golfers inside 40 feet is a great shot. Plan: aim at the part of the green that leaves 40 feet or less.
Say: inside 40 yards is a good result. Plan: the player’s call with no water or out of bounds in play; laying back stays the plan.
Say: discipline is the difference, and it can be coached. Plan: the same plan Thursday and Sunday.
Winners first, the rest of the field second. Closing: winners against the other contenders, 25 and 19 rounds, a direction, not yet a finding.
Our players almost never make a double; the work is the hole after a bogey. From 20 tournament cards, scores only: a small sample.
Shot value against expected already exists in golf. The moment after a mistake does not. That is ours to own.
We sell the coaching of the data, not the data. Grade by the rules on these pages, and when a rule changes, it changes in the house rules first and here in the next edition.