From Scotland, Aberlady, The DucksInn

I never been physically so close to a Tour event as well so far. Last week Scottish Open was supposed to be the first "Open to the Public" European Tour event when a week before the 850 privileges spectators where called off due to the raise of Covid19 case.

As I moved to Scotland early this year living next to Renaissance Private Golf Club home of the 2020 Scottish Open, I was expected to be back on site to see some actions as well to say hello to our past CaddiePlayer clients (Jacquelin, Bhullar, Pavon). Instead I end up doing daily stories on Facebook and to find out Ian Poulter was doing it too from his Renaissance suite overlooking the golf course how cool is that!

"The past months, I have noticed Ian Poulter to be very active on Social Media."

In one hand is it quite interesting to see Poulter's inside life, especially when he cooks steaks for his caddie... and I must say he is quite good at it. In the other hands it's rather discouraging as at the end my Facebook Scottish Open stories was watched by 22 viewers only as Poulter's by 700.000 +.... 

I would have thoughts Poulter's social media activation might have caused some distraction to his game but it happens exactly the opposite as on Saturday  he was into the lead for some times before the storm rain came about to cost him shots > https://www.golfchannel.com/video/2020-scottish-open-rd3-poulter-fleetwood-talk-weather. Poulter managed to finish T6 earning €171,944.64. 

It was my first Facebook stories week and probably my last. It's so much time consuming.... I am very surprise to see how active this new function is those days and more they all cross share between Instagram, Facebook, TikTok so being on Twitter as well you kind of get lost confused where you need to be... 

At the end of the 4 rounds, Arron Rai probably one of the most FOCUS ON TOUR and the less active on Social Media was the Winner.  

"Last year, I had the opportunity to follow Aaron Rai,  when I notice his focus set."

Just as Aaron lifted his Scottish trophy, one of his sponsor, a Online golf school posted a Swing Lesson Drills on Instagram. A few minutes later 76'000 viewers... How can you beat that? 

All this was almost under shadow by the Sergio Garcia's Eyes Closed Putting wins in USA as well Melissa Reid her first LPGA Trophy, both players were parts of our 2011 putting research! 9 years ago, Facebook stories didn't exist then...

Until next time https://www.facebook.com/stephane.barras or more Poulter's stories > https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=ian%20james%20poulter

https://www.instagram.com/meandmygolf/ as well celebrating it's 10 years with one billion users > https://about.instagram.com/about-us/instagram-product-evolution

Player Blog's Aaron Rai > https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/news/articles/detail/player-blog-aaron-rai/

Round3 Sergio's PuttZones Data

Sergio Garcia explains the logic behind putting with his eyes closed

https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/12089440/sergio-garcia-explains-the-logic-behind-putting-with-his-eyes-closed

Golf Data Lab Statement by Graeme Leslie GolfDataLab Founder

"It's up to the golfer if he or she wants to perform better. Seriously, it's that simple."

If you want to improve, it's down to you. As soon as you get called to the first tee, you're on your own. The work has been done. Your biomechanist and your swing, short game and putting coaches have given you the technical fundamentals and your psychologist/mentor/performance coach/data and stats analyst have helped you to manage your mind, yourself and your expectations. You have a strategy and a plan. Your movement has been improved through kinesiology and your strength and conditioning and nutritional experts have prepared you to be in the optimum physical condition for this moment.

"That's a lot of people but ultimately, it's up/down to you as to how you perform and what you score."
And there will be ups and there will be downs. This is a game of never-perfect after all. It's also a game of huge variables, you will be 100% getting up and down one day, 0% the next. Most specialists in golf help with your practise and preparation. There are less of us who are dedicated to measuring and reflecting. Yet we need data, facts and stats in order to help to shape our practise and focus our minds.

As a European Tour winner (including of the "fifth major") client of ours says,

"if you're not assessing, you're guessing".

At Golf Data Lab we believe that the "Circle of Golf" interlinks all three functions and that they are interdependent. In order to perform better and find greater consistency, we will have practised hard, practised smart and prepared well. After performing, we reflect and learn what we did right, wrong or indifferent and this shapes the composition of our practise, how we prepare and what we tweak or change for the next time. 

https://golfdatalab.com/default.aspx

DeChambeau, recorded rounds of 69, 68, 70 and 67 to capture a six stroke victory at the 120th U.S. Open held at the legendary Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York.

DeChambeau was the only player to finish the tournament under par. This was his eighth win and first major title since he joined the PGA TOUR in 2017.

He ranked 1^st in Eagles, T-4^th in Birdies, 1^st in Strokes Gained Tee to Green (17.918), 1^st in Strokes Gained Approach to the Green (7.608), 2^nd in Strokes Gained Off the Tee (5.331), and 1^st in Strokes Gained Total (22.273). He also ranked 3rd in Scrambling (65.38%), 3rd in Putting (+2.99) and T-5th for Greens in Regulation (63.89%).

This U.S. Open victory was a major validation of DeChambeau’s “outside-the-box” approach to the game.

“One hundred percent, no doubt,” DeChambeau said. “For me, it’s about the journey of can I execute every shot more repeatable than everybody else. I was able to do that this week. That’s why I won by six.”

This victory earned him a paycheck for $2.25 million dollars and 600 FedEx Cup Points. He is now ranked 1st on the FedEx Cup Points List and 9th in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Bryson DeChambeau wins the 120th US Open superior. 

The "muscle man" hit only 23 fairways, but he still distanced the entire competition by six or more strokes ...