Patent ID: 8655462

Claim:
Apparatus for analyzing driving performance of a golfer, comprising: a data processing device having a program executing processing unit, a data storage device, and an output display device; a plurality of fairway hit data records, containing fairway hit data of a golfer, stored in said data storage device; a plurality of fairway miss data records stored in said data storage device, containing fairway miss data of the golfer and data on a fairway miss severity level representing an estimated stroke cost of each fairway miss, wherein the estimated stroke cost of each fairway miss differs from other estimated stroke costs of other fairway misses according to a difference in fairway miss severity level; and programs executing on said data processing device for: calculating a driving accuracy of the golfer based on the number of fairway hits and the severity level of each fairway miss; and displaying a graphic of the driving accuracy of the golfer on the output display device.