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What is the 80/20 swing rule?

The golfing version states that the 80% of your best practice efforts are likely to occur on the golf course 20% of the time. The inverse also applies; the lowest 20% of your practice performance is likely to occur on the golf course 80% of the time.

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All your practice should be geared toward creating a transfer of your best practice form to the golf course. Smart golfers realise this and that’s why they spend a lot of time in activities designed to build pressure in practice; to replicate on-course situations.

Most golfers complain they leave their best shots on the range. Is that like you? Do you struggle to transfer your range form to the course?

What if you already transferring your form as effectively as you can? I can hear your protests: but I’m not! Perhaps you are if you consider applying the 80/20 rule to your golf performance. The mathematical formula called the Pareto Principle states that in many different circumstances about 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. The golfing version states that the 80% of your best practice efforts are likely to occur on the golf course 20% of the time. The inverse also applies; the lowest 20% of your practice performance is likely to occur on the golf course 80% of the time. An example of how this works is that if you hit 10 pitch shots to a target, the two which finished furthest from the target other ones that you are most likely to produce on the golf course. That doesn’t mean you won’t hit good pitch shots on the golf course, it just means that statistically you are not likely to reproduce your very best practice form on the golf course. With players I coach, I monitor how they score in practice training drills compared to that same statistic when they are on the golf course. In every case the results show that the performance in practice is always better over time than what it is on the golf course. When you are hitting those 10 pitch shots in practice do so with your attention fully on the task at hand: Create a mental blueprint which includes visualising and getting a feel for the shot you are about to play. Have a practice swing to reinforce the correctness of the feel that you imagined. Hint: for pitching it is especially important to focus on swing length and rhythm.

Go through the same routine you would use on the golf course.

Engage with the target and play the shot as if you are reproducing your mental blueprint. You can expand the 80/20 rule to not only include the results of the shot you hit, but also your approach to playing those shots. That means that if you have a sloppy mental preparation 20% of the time in your practice, then that is the mental preparation you are likely to use on the golf course a majority of the time. You can never separate what you do physically, technically and mentally in competition from what you doing practice. The feelings might be different because of the nervous energy that competition brings, but this is only more likely to make the poor habits rear their ugly heads. Hold the 80/20 rule as your guiding philosophy and practice so that you are focusing on ensuring that the worst 20% of your practice is still pretty good. If that is the case then you will excel on the golf course, enjoying a low handicap and a personal best scoring rounds. How will your practice improve when you use this principle? Let me know.

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What is the 10 shot rule in golf?

When the 10-shot rule is in effect, it means that golfers who are within 10 strokes of the lead at the time the cut is made do make the cut and continue playing.

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The 10-shot rule, also called the 10-stroke rule, is a condition in place at some pro golf tournaments as part of the cut rule. The cut rule describes the criteria golfers in the field must meet in order to make the cut and continue playing. When the 10-shot rule is in effect, it means that golfers who are within 10 strokes of the lead at the time the cut is mademake the cut and continue playing. Actually, very few pro golf tournaments still use the 10-shot rule as part of their cut. Not all golf tournaments even have a cut — the WGC tournaments on the PGA Tour, for example, are no-cut events. If there is no cut, then the 10-stroke rule is irrelevant. The Masters used to be the biggest-profile tournament that used the 10-shot rule. Prior to 2020, The Masters cut rule was Top 50 including ties, plus all golfers within 10 strokes of the lead, make the cut. But beginning with the 2020 tournament, The Masters dropped the 10-stroke rule. All the other majors had already dropped the 10-shot rule. The U.S. Open cut rule, for example, is Top 60 plus ties make the cut, and that's it. There is no 10-shot rule at the U.S. Open. Standard PGA Tour tournaments also do not use the 10-stroke rule. So it's safe to say that most professional tour events do not use the 10-shot rule. But some did in the past, including majors, and The Masters did until 2020, so many golfers are familiar with the term.

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