Brian Bailie on Statistics and Building an A.I. Assisted Training Model to Improve your Golf Score

Brian Bailie is a Professional Golf Coach who specializes in Putting and Short Game. He has over 17 years of Collegiate Coaching experience for Men’s and Women’s Programs and during his tenure at The University of Virginia he was selected as the National Assistant Collegiate Coach of the Year in 2010.  

Brian is also a co-founder of the GameForge Golf Statistics and Performance App and joins #OntheMark to help you to understand your performance markers and improve them for better scoring.

His A.I. powered GameForge App is able to aid in understanding and predicting performance by way of modelling, using data metrics like Greens in Regulation, Scrambing and Total Putts.

In the conversation Brian elaborates on:

The correct "language" of scoring Putting distance control and Green reading Birdie conversion, and The statistical model to being a Scratch golfer

He also delves into performance improvement elements like:

How 'concepts' are killers for mindsets How the 'short game' is the anchor to good play The danger of training what you are good at How golf is like a Decathlon Approach Play values in contrast to Distance Gain values, and Feedback loops and Reflection periods for improvement.

Brian also illustrates a Finger Measurement System - like Aimpoint in Putting - for picking appropriate targets on full shots.  Watch this podcast on YouTube; search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.