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Using Six Sigma to Improve Your Golf Game

People keep asking me if Six Sigma applies only to manufacturing. Nope. You can even use it to improve your golf game.

(You can download my free “Six Sigma Golf” pamphlet by clicking HERE.)



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

“I was at the American Society for Quality’s Lean Six Sigma conference down in Phoenix a few weeks ago, and one guy said, “Aren’t you the guy that wrote Six Sigma Golf?” I said “Yeah!” I [wrote] that book a long time ago. Nobody brought it up for a long time, but I said yeah; I was reading Dave Pelz’ “Putting [Bible]” and “Short Game Bible.”

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Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Jay Arthur Blog.

Pro Golf Missed Putts

Watching golf, I’ve had a feeling that there is a pattern to misses by both men’s and women’s professionals. It seemed like most putts missed were below the hole. So this weekend, I recorded the final round of the 2021 LPGA Pure Silk Championship and studied the putts missed.

All greens are curved to challenge golfers. Few putts are straight. I can usually tell by the arc of the putt how it missed the hole. Short ones are easy. With high putts, they arc over the hole, then fall down past the hole. With low putts, they arc before the hole and fall off.

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Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma.