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This week on The Golfing Mind, we are stripping golf back to the cold, hard evidence.

No clichés.

Over the past twenty years, the average PGA Tour drive has increased by more than ten yards. Ball speeds have surged. Players train like elite athletes. Technology has refined every inch of performance.

And yet — scoring has improved by barely half a stroke.

How can that be?

We’ll explore the rise of Strokes Gained — the statistical revolution that exposes exactly where tournaments are won and lost. We’ll examine Greens in Regulation, sand save percentages, driving accuracy, and putting averages. We’ll reveal how less than one stroke per round often separates the world number one from the player ranked fiftieth.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth:

The margins are microscopic.

One poor decision.

The numbers prove what I’ve argued for years — excellence in golf lives inside tiny gaps. And those gaps are not technical. They are psychological.

Because when performance differences are measured in tenths of a stroke…

Let’s examine the data — and then read between the lines.

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