As a mathematician, Broadie did not believe that traditional golf stats, such as score, greens in regulation and number of putts were sufficient to understand what made a top player on the PGA Tour better than others. Also, such limited data failed to help him understand, ”what it takes to drop 10 strokes off your golf score?” His research led to the development of “Strokes Gained” and the writing of his renowned book Every Shot Counts in 2014.
Beginning in 2003, the PGA Tour began gathering detailed data on every shot taken by their players at every tournament using about 350 volunteers and a system called ShotLink that cost $millions to develop. Ball locations and distances were measured and recorded on every shot.
The ShotLink data was provided to PhD mathematician Mark Brodie who refined the revolutionary concept of Strokes Gained based upon the distance, location and score for each shot. Today Strokes Gained provides a scientific method to measure the performance of each aspect of a Tour Players game as compared to every other Tour Player. If a player performed better in a measured category he would be “Gaining” strokes on the field and if he was playing worse, he would be “Losing” strokes to the field.
Now every PGA Tour Player can see how he performs in each Strokes Gained category and identify the areas to work to improve his game. GameTraX 360 with SuperTags can do the same for recreational golfers without 350 volunteers and without distracting from the enjoyment of your game. JUST GO PLAY and see where you gain strokes or lose them and what it takes to reach your target score.