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Strokes Gained category 04

Strokes Gained: Putting

Putting measures strokes that start on the putting surface. Distance is recorded in feet, and the ending position is either another putt or the hole.

Category boundary

A stroke belongs to Putting only when the ball starts on the green. A putt from the fringe is an Around the Green shot under AlignIQ's locked category rule.

What counts

  • Every stroke starting on the putting surface.
  • The distance of the first putt and the distance left after each putt.
  • A holed putt, whose ending expected-strokes value is zero.

What to log

  • Starting distance in feet, not yards.
  • Ending distance in feet, or mark the ball holed.
  • Each putt separately so the accounting closes across the hole.

A worked shot

Made putt from 15 feet
Expected before
1.780
Expected after
0.000
Stroke used
1
SG vs Tour
+0.78

The numbers above are calculated at render time from AlignIQ’s production SG engine. They are not copied into this page, so the example cannot drift away from the calculation used in the app.

How to interpret it

A made putt gains the expected strokes above the one stroke used to hole it. A two-putt can gain or lose depending on the starting distance and the distance left after the first putt.

A common mistake

Putts per round ignores where every putt started. Thirty putts can describe very different performance if one player hit every approach close and another started from long range.

Where the benchmark comes from

The primary comparison uses Mark Broadie’s published PGA Tour expected-strokes tables and putting model. AlignIQ interpolates between published distances within the same lie, never across lies. A holed ball has an ending value of zero. When a required source value is unavailable, the engine returns no SG number.