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Latest How To Stop Three-Putting

How to Stop Three-Putting: A Science-Based Putting Plan

Want to stop three-putting? See what research says drives distance and direction control in putting, and how to build a practice plan from your own stats.

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Strokes gained golf stats broken down by off the tee, approach, around the green, and putting
Strokes Gained

What Is Strokes Gained in Golf? A Complete Guide for Players and Coaches

What is strokes gained in golf? Learn how it works, how to calculate it, what each category means, and how to turn it into a practice plan that lowers scores.

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PARfect Performance free strokes gained calculators for putting and driving
Strokes Gained

Free Strokes Gained Calculator: Find Where You Lose Shots

Use our free strokes gained calculators to measure putting and driving against PGA Tour or LPGA Tour baselines. No signup. See where your shots go.

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Practice

Block vs Random Practice: Why Your Range Session Doesn't Look Like Your Round

Block practice feels great, but random practice is what transfers to the course. Here's the difference, and how PARfect's new Practice Challenges and Round Simulation put it into action.

4 min read
Strokes Gained

Beyond GIR: A Deep Dive Into Proximity Buckets and Greens-and-Fringe-in-Regulation

A closer look at four stats that add resolution to greens in regulation — GIR inside 40, inside 20, inside 8, and greens-and-fringe-in-regulation — and what each one is actually telling you.

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Strokes Gained

Expected Scrambling: Why Tour Average Isn't Your Benchmark

Tour average scrambling tells you almost nothing about your own game. Here is how PARfect calculates the scrambling percentage you should actually be hitting.

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College Golf

College Golf Season Is Back — Here's What Separates Teams That Improve From Teams That Just Play

As the college golf season kicks off, here's why the teams that make the biggest jumps this year will be the ones that practice with data, not just reps.

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Strokes Gained

Why Comparing Yourself to Tour Average Still Makes You Better

Tour average isn't just for tour players. Here's why measuring your game against the highest level still sharpens practice at every stage of development.

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Golf Improvement

Why Golfers Plateau — And Why Playing More Golf Doesn't Fix It

Why golfers stop improving even when they practice and play more, what causes a golf plateau, and how to find what is really holding your game back.

5 min read
Strokes Gained

Stop Practicing What You're 'Bad At' — Practice What Costs You Strokes

Why the golfer who feels worst about their bunker play isn't necessarily the golfer who should be practicing bunkers — and how strokes gained data settles the argument.

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Golf Stats

How to Track Golf Stats the Right Way (So Your Practice Actually Improves Your Score)

Most golfers track the wrong golf stats or don't know what to do with them. Here's how to record, read, and turn your stats into a practice plan that lowers scores.

4 min read
Coaching

Why Stats Are Becoming Non-Negotiable in Coaching

Gut feel built college golf for decades. Here's why the best coaching staffs are pairing it with strokes gained data, and what happens when they don't.

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Junior Golf

Why Stats Matter for Junior Golfers (and Their Coaches)

Junior golfers and their coaches often rely on feel and scorecards alone. Here is why strokes gained data changes how young players actually improve.

4 min read
Golf Practice

The Problem With 'Just Go Hit Balls'

Unstructured range time feels productive. Strokes gained data almost always tells a different story — and the gap between effort and improvement starts there.

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Professional Golf

Playing on Tour While Running a Startup — What Nobody Talks About

Most people assume doing both is overwhelming. For me, it's the opposite — and that surprised me.

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College Golf

Why a Golf Stats Program Is One of the Best Investments a College Program Can Make

The right golf analytics platform saves college coaches time, sharpens player development, and keeps an entire roster moving in the right direction. Here's why PARfect Performance was built exactly for that.

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Golf Analytics

Scrambling Rate Is a Lie (Here's What to Track Instead)

Scrambling rate has been the go-to short game stat for decades. Here is why it misleads golfers about their real performance around the greens — and what strokes gained data reveals instead.

5 min read
College Golf Recruiting

What D1 Golf Programs Actually Look for in Recruits

Beyond the scorecard — here is what college golf coaches actually evaluate when recruiting junior golfers, and how golf analytics is changing the conversation.

7 min read
Tee Shots

Tracking Your Tee Shot Dispersion: The Data Your Driving Range Session Is Missing

Fairways hit tells you where one shot landed. Dispersion tracking tells you what your tee shots are actually doing — and that is where real improvement starts.

4 min read
Putting

Tracking Your Misses: How Slope and Break Data Reveal Your Putting Tendencies

Improving your putting starts with understanding your tendencies — not just your results. Slope, break, and miss direction data tell you what your stroke is actually doing, so you can fix the right things.

4 min read
Practice Planning

Practice Doesn't Make Perfect — Data-Driven Practice Does

Most golfers practice hard. Very few practice smart. Without strokes gained data driving your practice plan, you are spending time on the wrong things — and your scores will keep telling you so.

4 min read
PARfect

Why Coach Feedback Drives Everything We Build

PARfect Performance exists to give coaches more time with their players — and more to work with when they get it. Here's why every feature we build starts with a conversation with a coach.

4 min read
Around The Greens

Around the Greens: The Stats That Actually Predict Scrambling

Scrambling percentage is one of the most-cited stats in amateur golf — and one of the most misleading. We break down what SG:Around-the-Green actually measures, what the benchmarks look like across skill levels, and why proximity from short range matters more than most players think.

4 min read
Analytics

Why AI Is the Next Competitive Edge in College Golf Analytics

Parfy, PARfect Performance's AI chatbot, isn't just a feature — it's the answer to the biggest bottleneck in college golf coaching: interpreting player data fast enough to act on it.

5 min read
Putting stats on PARfect
Putting

Putting Stats Are Lying to You (Here's What to Track Instead)

Most golfers track putts per round and call it a day. But that number tells you almost nothing about how well you're actually putting. Here's the data that matters.

3 min read
Parfect Performance round entry screen.
Golf

Why Round Entry Has to Be Simple

If logging a round feels like homework, players stop doing it. And when they stop, the data dies — and so does any chance of real improvement.

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Parfect Performance round snapshot screen.
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