Golf is one of the world’s famous sports. Who hasn’t heard about Tiger Woods, considered one of the greatest golfer’s of all time? Or Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen?
Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. The object is to deposit the ball in a specified number of cups, or holes, using as few strokes as possible into each of the 9 or 18 successive holes on a course.
It is played by holes, which could mean the actual hole in the ground, or the whole area from the teeing ground (the starting point) to the putting green (the area around the actual hole in the ground. These holes are surrounded by hazards: bunkers or sand traps, and water such as lakes, ponds, or rivers. The grass of the putting green is cut very short so that a ball can roll over distances of several meters. “To putt” means to play a stroke on the green where the ball does not leave the ground. And “putt” is a golf stroke made on a putting green to cause the ball to roll into or near the hole.
“Putting” therefore is very crucial in game of golf. Your performance will greatly improve if you hit all your putts 100% of the time.
Golfers can improve their performance by working for Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a failure rate of 3.4 parts per million or 99.9997%… Applying this to golf, a Six Sigma level will mean missing one putt every 163 years!
Possible? Definitely if players work for a Six Sigma performance.
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