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UNDERSTAND | PLAY | PERFORM
Game Stat Analysis Identify the Weaknesses
ANALYSE YOUR
Customized Skills Enhance Scoring Opportunities
DEVELOP YOUR
Apply Enhanced Course Management Knowledge
DESIGN YOUR
A comprehensive golf training technique designed to bring your game performance to the next level! Using statistics and trends observed from your current game, we help you to develop the skills and the fundamental knowledge of good course management that is essential to playing and scoring better on the course.
Most golfers strive to play better and score better but they often find themselves "stuck" at a level which they know does not represent their true abilities. Something that can be very frustrating even to the most accomplished player.
Often, the key to breaking through this barrier is sitting right in front of them but they just don't know how to turn this key. This technique is designed to do just that.
GamePar is a beautifully simple and practical addition to your game whatever your level of play. If your goal is to improve your understanding of your game and your scoring around the course - this technique is for you! Get ready to reach your true potential.
- Mick Walsh (Founder GamePar)
HOW GAMEPAR PROGRAM WORKS TO IMPROVE YOUR GAME
1. ANALYSIS
Recording your rounds in detail tells us a lot about the nature of your scoring and your shot decisions. From this data we build a baseline for your playing trends and identify the aspects that inhibit your scores.
2. PROGRAM
Once your baselines have been set we lay out a programmed game plan to improve the skills that will translate to better scoring on the course. Having a customized plan ensures that you walk away from the program with an enhanced knowledge of your own capabilities.
3. TRAIN
Our training aspect happens on the range and on-course. It brings your attention to the specific skills and course management techniques that have been identified to best suit your goals. We work using goal based training techniques so that you can continue to work on improving your scoring beyond the classroom aspect of the program.
4. SUCCEED
Watch your course management skills and knowledge soar, your scoring improve and your handicap fall. Continue your training by sharing your experiences on our social channel and get ongoing feedback from our community.
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TRACKING OUR PLAYING STATS
Tracking & recording play performance exposes trends in your approach to playing. All of these stats help us build a benchmark of the students skills and abilities.
From our scorecards to the complexities of the strokes gained system golf is just packed full of statistics. Not ony useful to us as watchers of professional events but also as a means to learn about our own playing trends.
Statistics provide a valuable insight into the positive and negative aspects of our game. When we contrast these stats between players of different levels we can identify many aspects that change as the level of the player raises. It is these aspects that can provide us with benchmarks which in turn we can use to establish our training goals.
There are many mobil apps available which collect the key data; Golfshot, Hole19 and TheGrint, to name but a few.
Performance Trends
Consulting performance stats shows us our playing trends.
For the player who doesnt keep track of their scoring performance often these benchmarks are not very apparent, they will not know what their average Greens In Regulation (GIR) percentage is, how many putts they are averaging in each round and they may not even know the average distance they can play all their clubs.
It is this data that changes as our Course Management skills improve. Some are directly connected to these skills but others not so much.
It is the relationship between our scoring and these stats that allow us to use them as a tool to improve our scoring solely through improving our knowledge and integrating of good Course Management practices into our regular game...
On-course GPS
GPS Apps help you to review and plan your shots and see hazards and risk areas on each hole. They also record the results of your decisions which is very useful to us.
GAMEPAR ILLUSTRATED - TRAINING GUIDE
During the training program, students use our guide book to learn about the essential Course Management and scoring skills and they learn how to decode the anatomy of any hole they come across.
What is Course Management and how can we learn to use it to improve our scoring? The GamePar program is designed to guide you to a new smarter level of golf.
There are varying degrees of Course Management that are connected with our abilities however at any playing level it can be used to dramatically improve your scoring.
For the new golfer and the 18 and over handicapper, recognizing the risks and how they can adversly effect their scoring is possibly the farthest thing from their minds as they work on establishing their swings and initial skills. For this category of golfer, learning the very basics of Course Management can help shape their future game and help them become more aware where the focus of their practice should be.
For the 10-18 mid-handicapped golfer who have more developed playing skills there is a enhanced importance on good course management as a means to improve their scoring. For many of them, various aspects of Course Management strategy is being used each time they play, but more than likely the strategies are being implemented blindly and randomly.
Then we come to the single digit handicap players, for them good Course Management is perhaps the most important part of their game. They have come to realize that regardless of how well they strike the ball or regardless how good their short game is, if they have not tuned their game strategy to a high level, well, they simply will fail to maintain a score. For them even a perfectly struck ball can be a card ruining error if their course management decision was incorrect or even just weak.
So we understand that golfers of different skill levels need varying degees of Course Management skills and to go yet another layer, these golfers need varying levels of these disciplines. For example, the high handicapper may only rarely play a lay-up. The mid-handicapper certainly will play lay-ups frequently but not necessarily as a rule. The low handicapper has learned to play the lay-up as a rule and will play to position the ball to his best scoring approach distance.
What is undisputedly apparent is that all golfers need these skills in some form. This program lays out a path for any golfer to learn the essential course management practices specifically for their playing level, and as you improve your playing skills you can graduate to the next level of skills.
THE ANATOMY OF A GOLF COURSE
In simple terms you could say that the object of the game of golf is to play to the course par on any given day. Obviously golfers of different levels approach the challenge in many different ways and with different skill levels, but ultimately in the amateur game and while using the handicap system, we all play on a level playing field. (albeit somewhat flawed).
We could see playing to par as the principle challenge of the game, but we can also look at the 18 holes as individual challenges and indeed take it further by looking at each shot we execute as an individual challenge in itself.
Golf courses share certain common structural characteristics, such as the tees, greens and sand traps, hills and hollows, the distance from tee to green, the size of fairways and rough, the water hazards and the concentration of trees and bushes, all of which combine through the wonder of nature to create a unique playing experience not only on different courses but even on the same course on different days. They are all potential obstacles to our goal to achieving a par score.
Without even considering weather and altitude factors which apply huge variences to the physics of ball flight on any given day, what is not common to all our golf courses is the varience of the elements which make up these common characteristics. We have long and short par 4s (and par 3s and par 5s for that matter) we have fine and coarse sand in the sand traps, we have long and short rough, for grass we can have Bentgrass, fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass, Poa annua, and Poa trivialis all of which have different effects on the behavior of our strokes.
Then there are the slopes of the fairways and the breaks on the greens, we then also have the trees and natural features of the land not to mention the man made obstacles all of which have the possibility of having great influence on our quest to make par. With all these variables the cards are well and truly stacked against us. The question we need to ask is how can we simplify the manner in which we play to best manage these variances.
If we look to define the ‘variables’ aspect of the game of golf we could say that from a basic point of view these variences are all elements of RISK to our chances of achieving par, or actually layers upon layers of risk. Attempting to address each possible variable and the miriad of potential results during any one game would be an altogether futile exercise, certainly for the majority of golfers, there are just too many permutations to the equasions and we would do well to know even a small fraction of the play possibilities or indeed their outcomes particularly if they do not run to plan. It is because of this that we find it more logical to address RISK and REWARD (or should reward be downplayed as it is not necessarily something we have a choice with?) as a common element to all the games obstacles.
These are all things that we need to have a good handle on in order to progress. We need a strategy to help us keep all of this in context for us. Game Par helps to organize these aspects for you in a logistic manner, well at least we hope to give you a better fighting chance to do so. After all this is golf - it's never going to be easy!
TESTIMONIALS
As a golfer I had reached a point where I felt that I couldn't improve! This training program changed that! Now I feel I am back on track to reach a better handicap level. It's been very satisfying to discover so much more about my game.
- Scott Glover
I was struggling to reach my potential. Mick and his training ideas helped to pull my game together in a way I could understand and use effectively in competition.
- Amos Michele Appendino
GamePar is a very useful technique that adapts as your game changes. It highlights your weaknesses and provides the tools you need to improve your course management and scoring.
- Marcel Riegelmann