How Strokes Gained Works. Every single distance and lie has an expected baseline score associated with it. For example, this expected score (baseline) from 400 yards from the tee is 3.99. If you hit a 300 yard drive in the fairway, to a new baseli...

Greens hit in Regulation is defined as: The percent of time a player is able to hit a green in regulation (greens hit/holes played). A green is considered ‘hit’ if the birdie shot on the hole is taken from the green. Here are a few examples: A pla...

A sand save in golf is defined as: “The percent of time it takes a player to get the ball ‘up and down’ from a greenside bunker, regardless of score”. It is a useful statistic to measure a player’s short game ability from the sand, but it has a fe...

In golf statistics, scrambling is defined as: The percent of time a player misses the green in regulation, but still makes par or better. Here are a few examples: A player plays a par-3 hole and misses the green on the tee shot. The player chips u...