The first obvious answer is score, and after that, most golfers will talk about greens in regulation. But even that can be an uneven gauge for certain players (assuming you even understand what it means—Shane Ryan explains how that can happen). The other day, after playing one of my best rounds of the year, I realized in hindsight I still didn’t hit many greens in regulation. But what I did do well, however, is give myself a lot of opportunities to save par. And that’s because I was successful in the stat I devised a few years ago— “greenside in regulation”. The metric is exactly as it sounds. You're either on the green, or you’re at least close enough to chip it on and potentially save par. For mid-handicappers like me who don’t count on a lot of birdie putts, it’s probably the best indicator of a decent score, and in my case, it was.