Your game: What to work on

Richard Finch who uses the www.strokeaverage.com system, and won the New Zealand Open in December

For most of us a round of golf, whether socially or in a competition, is over when we hurl the clubs into the boot of the car and head for the bar. We might pick over the odd three-putt or topped tee shot but that's it. It's history.

Strangely every pro and certainly 90 per-cent of improving golfers don't leave it there. They analyse their game, their strengths and weaknesses on the day and attempt to do something about it.

For the pro, that usually means getting their coach to help iron out any faults but for the rest self analysis has tended to be a shrug of the shoulders and an hour or two beating balls. Practice...often with no purpose.

However, a website has been launched to help those keen to get their handicap down by working on the areas of their game that need re-building as well as that which merely needs polish.

Dozens of Golfmagic visitors have taken advantage of a special offer to feed in their own personal game statistics into the 'Stroke Average' system providing an easily decipherable footprint of their own strengths and shortcomings, showing what to work on and what to adapt.

It has been a real eye-opener for many as well as a useful reference for top Ryder Cup players like Darren Clarke and some younger recent winners like Richard Finch, who claimed the New Zealand Open, and Ross Fisher.

"The site is easy to navigate and has a good interface. It makes what can be a tedious chore of entering round-by-round details into a worthwhile exercise."

Commented 12-handicapper Ben White: "The filters enable you to make comparisons on how your game is developing, or how you are affected by different conditions. It's easy to use with excellent tutorials if required."

Added Welshman Lindsay Griffiths:"From the stats I produced, I now know that my chipping needs lots of work!"

Chris Sells, who has worked previously as the Performance Analyst for the English Golf Union, helped set up the StrokeAverage site with business partner John Franks and admits there's still work to do improving some of the weaker areas.

"We greatly appreciate the feedback Golfmagic members are giving us and working hard to improve the graphics as well as taking on board some great suggestions. It's gratifying to know we're building a relationship with lots of golfers and helping them to improve their game," he says.

Last word goes to Ian Davidson: "As I was stalking my putts today I remembered from my stats that I always overborrow. It's an excellent website that I recommed everyone looking to improve and a brilliant way to keep the interest up when you get home after a round."