01WORKED
Course management
I stopped attacking pins for 10 rounds
Ten rounds. Centre-green targets only. No hero shots. Did boring golf actually lower the scores?
Read experimentTHE ORDINARY GOLFER PROJECT
Less bogey.
More birdie.
One club golfer testing what actually makes us better — with real rounds, honest experiments and the numbers to prove it.
CURRENT HANDICAP 6.7 → TARGET 3.0
ROAD TO 3
The game, measured.
Not vibes. Not range sessions that “felt good”. Every round feeds the same question: what actually moves the handicap?
HANDICAP INDEX6.7 → 3.0
8.85.93.0
79.5
Scoring average
Last 10: 77.9
51%
GIR
27 rounds
45%
Fairways
Penalties 1.3/round
31.5
Putts
Scrambling 31%
B2B EXPERIMENTS
Golf advice.
Put to the test.
We take the advice golfers hear every week and test it over enough real rounds to find out whether it actually helps.
02+1.6 SHOTS
Putting
15 minutes a day for 30 days
A month of structured putting practice, tracked from baseline to final round.
Read experiment03SURPRISE
Tee strategy
Driver vs 3-wood: the truth
Which club actually keeps an 8-handicap out of trouble when the hole tightens up?
Read experiment“
There’s enough golf advice on the internet.
We want to know what works.
Bogeys2Birdies is an honest record of the pursuit of better golf — the practice, the equipment, the bad decisions, the breakthroughs and the data behind all of it.
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