Dave Pelz is one of the best golf instructors in the world, and he invented a short game and putting game to test, and score, your short game skills to gauge progress and improvement. I was given this during one of his short game clinics in Atlanta and have been using it to quantify my improvements.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it
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Here are some of my scores from the Short Game Test:
Date | 3/4 Wedge | 1/2 Wedge | Long Sand | Short Sand | Long Chip – FW | Short Chip – FW | Pitch – FW | Pitch – Rough | Cut Lob – Rough | Total Points | HCP |
10 balls (yards) | 30 – 70 | 20 – 40 | 16 – 35 | 7 – 15 | 15 – 30 | 7 – 14 | 10 – 20 | 10 – 20 | 10 – 20 | ||
6/21/2018 – Hole 6 | 2 (50) | 4 (30) | 2 (20) | 7 (15) | 4* | 7 (20) | 13 (15) | 9 (15) | 0 (20) | 48 | 20 |
7/3/2018 – Hole 1 | 0 (60) | 7 (30) | 6 (20) | 10 (15) | 7 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 71 | 13 |
7/18/2018 – Hole 2 | 2 (50) | 3 (30) | 1 (24) | 5 (15) | 10 (20) | 18 (7) | 8 (1) | 15 | 5 | 67 | 14 |
7/23/2018 – Hole 18 | 1 (50) | 5 (30) | 0 (25) | 9 (15) | 11 | 21 (15) | 12 (15) | 13 (22) | 13 (20) | 85 | 9 |
7/26/2018 – Hole 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 85 | 9 |
7/31/2018 – Hole 6 | 2 (70) | 1 (50) | 1 (40) | 7 (15) | 4 (30) | 28 (12) | 13 (18) | 19 (18) | 7 (10) | 82 | 10 |
8/28/2018 – Mixed 14/15 | 1 (70) | 8 | 2 | 14 | 1 (30) | 20 (8) | 16 (20) | 18 (20) | 11 (20) | 91 | 7 |
9/4/2018 – Hole 2 | 0 (90) | 3 (70) | 3 (35) | 9 (10) | 5 (30) | 9 (10) | 14 | 11 | 11 | 65 | 14 |
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