Getting close beats just getting on

Hitting the green is great. But a 45 footer isn't really a birdie chance.

That's why the Round Report Card tracks opportunities. These are your real birdie looks.

What counts as an opportunity?

An opportunity is any birdie putt from 15 feet or less.

How to fi...

The easiest strokes you'll ever save

You don't need a new swing to shoot lower scores. You need to stop giving shots away.

That's what throwaways are. And tracking them might be the most eye opening thing you ever do on the golf course!

What counts as a throwaway?

A throwaway is any stroke or pe...

Fewer putts doesn't always mean better putting

Total putts is the stat everyone knows. But it can fool you.

If you miss a lot of greens and chip it close, you'll have fewer putts. If you hit a lot of greens from far away, you'll have more. Neither one tells you how well you actually rolled it.

Th...

Where your scores are really made

You can hit every fairway and still shoot a big number if your approach shots don't find the green.

That's why the Round Report Card tracks two things on every approach: where you hit it from, and where it ended up.

How to fill it out

Yards In/Club Used. Write t...

Hit or miss isn't enough

Most golfers track fairways with a simple check mark. Hit or miss. At the end of the round you get a number, like 7 out of 14, and that's it.

But that number doesn't tell you what to work on. Your miss does!

How to fill it out

On the Round Report Card, the Fairway Hit/Di...

Two rounds. Same course. One shot apart.

A while back I played back-to-back rounds at Anthem Country Club. Day one I shot 75. Day two I shot 76.

If you only looked at my scorecard, you'd say I played about the same both days.

I didn't. Not even close!

Day one, my ball striking carried me. I hi...

In this episode of T-Time with Tori, Kathy Hart Wood is back — and it has been way too long. Kathy is the founder of My Mental Caddy and Master Your Golf Brain, the host of the Think Above Par podcast, a 2 AM ideas machine, and one of the most trusted voices in my community. She's been heads-down bu...

If you have ever chaired a golf invitational, you know the feeling. You are juggling the budget, the food, the tee gifts, the format, the volunteers, the raffle prizes someone donated from their wine cellar circa 2009 — and you are also trying to play in the tournament. It is a lot. And most of it n...

Being a great tournament partner is one of those things nobody actually teaches you. You figure it out through experience, through awkward moments, through rounds where you didn't contribute a thing and didn't know what to do about it. This episode is the shortcut.

Phyllis Haberer flew in the ni...

In this episode of T-Time with Tori, I sit down with Carly Gilleland, the creative force behind The Good Vibe Studios and the director who turned an idea I had in the car one day into a six-part documentary series. We walk through everything that went into The Making of the Desert Classic — the Tayl...