Better Golf Daily: Playing the Percentage Series - Why You Always Come Up Short

Here's a stat that shouldn't be possible: something like 80 to 90 percent of missed greens are missed short. Not long, short, almost every time. If golfers were just randomly bad at distance, the misses would go both ways. They don't. This is the finale of the series, and it ties back to a bias a researcher named Tali Sharot has spent her career studying, the same one that makes us all terrible at estimating how long anything takes. Turns out it's costing you strokes on every single approach shot, and the fix is free.