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Work with your dispersion

Your “dispersion pattern” is the area that you usually land the ball. We determine this pattern for each club in your bag by taking an average distance spread across several shots. With this knowledge, club selection and game management becomes a lot easier.

You’ve got a tee shot into a tight fairway. You pull driver to give yourself the shortest approach possible. If you don’t know your driver dispersion covers 60 yards, there’s every chance your approach will be from the rough. But if you did know, you would have pulled your hybrid, with a tighter dispersion. Your approach will probably be a bit longer, but at least it’s from the fairway.

This week’s benchmark challenge

1. Play from the tee to within 50 yards in 2 less than the par on each hole.
2. Take 2 shots to hole out when inside 50 yards on 11 holes.
3. Take 3 shots to hole out when inside 50 yards on 7 holes.

Achieve all three benchmarks over an 18-hole round and you break 80. But your benchmarks also tell us what area of your game has the biggest opportunity for improvement. If you’ve completed last week’s challenge and haven’t shared your score, you can do so now.

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