Stop scoring the things you can't control and start tracking the one thing you can: did you complete your mental pre-shot routine on every single shot?
Get This Guide →The Perfect Shot Game Recorder is a short, no-nonsense manual that hands you a completely different way to fill in your score card. Instead of obsessing over greens in regulation, fairways hit and where the ball finished, it shows you how to record the one thing you can actually control on the course: how many times you completed your mental pre-shot routine properly, hole by hole.
Alongside the method you get ready-to-use game sheets. Before each round you write down your goal, then for every hole you log your hole score next to your 'routine score' — and watch how closely the two start to match.
By the end of a few rounds you'll have a clear, honest record of how consistently you actually commit to your pre-shot routine — and you'll feel the difference. The goal is simple: get your routine score to match your hole score, so you can walk off the course knowing you gave 100% effort. The author's own card shows the payoff — a round of 74 where the routine slipped just four times. Focus on the process, and the score takes care of itself.
Here's the uncomfortable truth at the heart of this manual: once the ball has left the clubface, you cannot control whether it finds the hole, the green or the fairway. So recording that result, as the author puts it, is 'OK' — but it will never improve your game. What will improve it is making a definite decision to do your mental pre-shot routine before every shot, and then actually doing it.
And not just going through the motions. The manual is blunt about this: you can kid yourself by half-doing your routine, and that does you little good. You must do it properly for each and every shot, as though your life depended on it. That's why the recording method asks you to be very hard on yourself — if you drifted, you mark it down. The card becomes an honest mirror of your commitment, hole by hole.
The genius of it is the goal it points you toward. Before every round you write the same statement: to complete your mental pre-shot routine for every golf shot you face. That's the whole goal. Not a number. Because the moment you chase a score, you're chasing the outcome — and high performers play better when they concentrate on the process, not the result. Do the routine perfectly, and your score takes care of itself.
The manual shows you all of this on a real, completed card — hole scores down one side, routine scores down the other, a round of 74 where the routine was completed on all but four shots. It comes with the game sheets to do the same, a space to write your goal on every one, and even the small honest exceptions (a tap-in putt doesn't need the full routine). Use the sheets, let go of the score, and you'll soon notice that the more completely you commit to your routine, the better you play.
Download the recorder, commit your goal to paper, and let your score take care of itself.
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