Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto,
Was born in 1848 to an exiled noble Italian family in Paris, and believe it or not he could have quite an effect on your golf game.
How could a stuffy old Italian economist and university professor help you with your game?
Here’s how.
Pareto was an economist by trade, and was famous for creating something called Pareto’s law.
Now whilst goofing off and living the high life towards the back end of his career he became a university professor.
Here he came up with the theory, which has subsequently been proven later on, that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts.
Also that this bias exits in other areas of life as well, for example, 80% of the wealth is controlled by 20% of the people.
Now it might not necessarily be an 80 / 20 split, but if you look at anything and analyse it carefully you will see that there is a bias.
And that’s great news for golfers.
Because old Pareto when he was theorising about wealth distribution and economics could have been talking about golf.
As far as I know he didn’t play golf, but I rekon he would have got very good very quickly.
Reason being, he would have worked out that 80% of the strokes you take on a golf course are taken with 20% of the clubs in your bag.
Also 80% of the strokes you take are within a certain yardage, i.e. in and around the green.
So my bet is that Pareto would have spent a hell of a lot of time working on his short game.
Minimum effort and maximum results, great if you have limited time to practice and yet still want to get better.
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Bob James PGA