Golf Stats Explained: What is a green in regulation (GIR) in golf?
Learn what a green in regulation means, how to calculate GIR percentage, what the golf stat reveals, and how to use it to improve your approach play.
Between the Range and the Round
Ideas on practice, performance, and how golfers actually improve.
Featured · Philosophy
Why we built Ingrain
Ingrain was built around a simple problem: golfers often practice without knowing whether that work will carry onto the course. By connecting rounds, practice and progress in one loop, Ingrain aims to make golf improvement more focused, measurable and accessible to more players.
Course rating vs. slope rating: how they change your handicap
Course rating measures difficulty for a scratch golfer. Slope rating measures how quickly a course gets harder for everyone else. Here is how both numbers work, how they change your Course Handicap, and what real tee data from Pebble Beach reveals.
Golf Stats Explained: What is strokes gained in golf?
Counting putts punishes good golf, and fairways hit cannot be compared to a missed six-footer. Strokes gained fixed that by pricing every shot in the same currency. Here is how the method works, what it found about where scoring comes from, and the three things it cannot tell you.
How far does the average golfer hit each club?
Every club distance chart you have seen disagrees with every other one by as much as 70 yards. Here is what the measured data says about how far amateurs really hit it, why the charts conflict, and how to build a set of yardages you can trust.
How good is the average golfer?
The average Handicap Index in the United States is 16.4, but that number describes a much smaller and more serious group of golfers than most people assume. Here is what the published data actually says about how good the average golfer is, and why a 14 handicap almost never shoots 86.
Coaching, Motor Learning, and the Practice-to-Course Gap in Golf
Great golf coaching is not just about fixing a swing. It is about identifying what is truly holding a player back, choosing the right priority and designing practice that actually transfers to the course. The best coaches do more than give answers—they build feedback loops, develop independence and teach golfers how to improve.