what does strokes gained mean
2. Strokes gained In this section the strokes gained concept is deï¬ned, examples are given and a simple but important additivity property of strokes gained is presented. The connection of strokes gained with dynamic programming is mentioned at the end of the section. Strokes gained is a simple and intuitive quantitative measure of the quality of a golf shot. Suppose a function J(d,c) has been estimated, where drepresents the distance to the hole from the current location (not the distance of the shot), crepresents the condition of the current ball