Identifying the areas in your game you need to work on is key to improving your game. Watch what Nikhil Rama from South Africa learnt from using Golf Stats Coach.
Speed is only worth what it saves
Extra distance is genuinely valuable in golf. It only pays, though, if the ball stays in play often enough for the shorter approach to be used.
Once the dispersion widens past a point, every extra yard is handed straight back through recoveries, penalties and blocked approach lines.
Finding the break even point
Tracking tee shot outcomes by club exposes this quickly. Compare average score on holes hit with driver against holes played with a shorter club off the tee.
Most players find one or two hole types where the shorter club scores better and the rest where driver is clearly correct.
The takeaway
This is not an argument for laying up everywhere. It is an argument for knowing your own numbers rather than following a slogan.
Hit driver where it pays. Take the club that keeps you in play where it does not.