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Study: Overall Golfer Performance By Handicap


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Study: Overall Golfer Performance By Handicap

How Do You Measure Up?

What separates players from pretenders?  Where does the average golfer really struggle? How much difference could one more par per round make?

Today we're going to try to answer all of those questions and more as we take a closer look at golfer performance by handicap. Along the way we'll show you how golfers of varying ability levels compare across several metrics, and provide you with some clues that help to explain why golf products are marketed the way they are.

To bring you this information, we've partnered with TheGrint, a Golf GPS and Handicap/Stat Tracker. TheGrint's massive database provides absolutely incredible insight into the makeup of the golfing population as a whole.

How Data was Mined

Data was captured from TheGrint App and Website.

We used a total sample of 15,000 golfers who:

Are part of a USGA Compliant Golf Club

Have uploaded at least 5 scores to TheGrint

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Very good golfers excel on Par 5's, but comparatively struggle on Par 3s while less skilled players perform comparatively better on Par 3s, but struggle with Par 5s.

I think I read that in a book recently… ;-) The article seems pretty self-evident overall.

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The data is too spread apart to be useful to me, because the ranges are too wide around my handicap. I just spent the last year going from one end of the 11-20 category to the other. Nothing really shows me that I am a 12.8 versus a 17.6 handicap or something like that, whereas I made significant strides in my game between the two.

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The Double Bogeys per round by handicap will interest those who don't understand how mid-single digit players can have any, let alone multiple doubles in a round on occasion.....
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The Double Bogeys per round by handicap will interest those who don't understand how mid-single digit players can have any, let alone multiple doubles in a round on occasion.....

Actually, it's pretty easy to get a double. Take 3 to get on and 3 putt. Here's a scenario one of my partners did. He hit his drive about 250 yards, pitched 110 yards past the hole, chipped past again, used the putter to hit from the fringe (it was an island green and everything was sloping 30 degrees or more) rolling it 10 feet past the hole, and 2 putt. Every move he did seemed reasonable, he even setup for every shot and yet he doubled it. Shots add up pretty quickly.

He did this three times before taking a deep breath at the tee box and relaxed a bit. Then he started making pars. He's a 6-8 handicap or somewhere in that vicinity. I guess it didn't help that the two double digit players (including me) parred the first two holes and bogeyed the 3rd.

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My stats are closer to the 6-10 range than the 11-20 range, except for the average of 4 doubles or higher per round ... :whistle:

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I've had a rash of doubles lately because I've only played 8 times since 08/30 but mid season prime my double average was just slightly higher than the birdie average. Last 20 scoring stats 8 birdies 3.2% to 27 doubles 10.7%.

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I understand that limiting blowup holes is the quickest way to lower scores in theory...I just can't convince myself on the course to punch out / lay up / aim away from the pin, etc etc. the lure of the perfect shot gets me every time....
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I understand that limiting blowup holes is the quickest way to lower scores in theory...I just can't convince myself on the course to punch out / lay up / aim away from the pin, etc etc. the lure of the perfect shot gets me every time....


I don't think it's about eliminating blow up holes as much as developing some consistency. The need to hit the perfect shot goes away when you have legit chances to make mundane pars.

Dave :-)

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That data does seem right for my handicap but I don't see how the avgs on the different par holes can be same for a 1 hcp and a 10 hcp.Dont see where a 1 handicap or even a 5 handicap are going to have same scores on the different par holes.

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That data does seem right for my handicap but I don't see how the avgs on the different par holes can be same for a 1 hcp and a 10 hcp.Dont see where a 1 handicap or even a 5 handicap are going to have same scores on the different par holes.


That's the same problem I have with the 11-20 handicap range.

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Maybe some lower handicap guys can chime in but for me par 3's are my weakness. The reason I miss a lot of greens from that distance. IMO because they are shorter a higher handicap golfer has a chance to get lucky and most probably play from shorter tees than a single digit guy. I score best on 5's because usually inside the 100 for approaches. But most of my pars are on 4's because there are more of them, it is just odds.

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Maybe some lower handicap guys can chime in but for me par 3's are my weakness. The reason I miss a lot of greens from that distance. IMO because they are shorter a higher handicap golfer has a chance to get lucky and most probably play from shorter tees than a single digit guy. I score best on 5's because usually inside the 100 for approaches. But most of my pars are on 4's because there are more of them, it is just odds.

Par 3's are the hardest for me as well, but it makes sense when you think about it. The only defenses a par 3 has are the ones around the green. That means they're going to make it as difficult an approach shot as possible, as well as a tricky putting surface, to try and make up for the fact that you can't get into trouble hitting a wild drive off the tee that you will have to recover from (or at least the chance of an iron going left into the woods is lesser). When you take one of the most important shots for any hole, the approach shot, and you make it harder than an approach shot on another hole it would stand to reason that the hole will play more difficult than the other holes.

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Maybe some lower handicap guys can chime in but for me par 3's are my weakness. The reason I miss a lot of greens from that distance. IMO because they are shorter a higher handicap golfer has a chance to get lucky and most probably play from shorter tees than a single digit guy. I score best on 5's because usually inside the 100 for approaches. But most of my pars are on 4's because there are more of them, it is just odds.

Par 3's are the hardest for me as well, but it makes sense when you think about it. The only defenses a par 3 has are the ones around the green. That means they're going to make it as difficult an approach shot as possible, as well as a tricky putting surface, to try and make up for the fact that you can't get into trouble hitting a wild drive off the tee that you will have to recover from (or at least the chance of an iron going left into the woods is lesser). When you take one of the most important shots for any hole, the approach shot, and you make it harder than an approach shot on another hole it would stand to reason that the hole will play more difficult than the other holes.

I have better luck with par 3 holes.   Even if I miss green, I can get on green in two and make 1 to 2 putts par or bogey.   I have tougher luck with long par 4s & par 5s.  Occasional +3 & +4s due to OBs make those holes tougher for me.

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The Double Bogeys per round by handicap will interest those who don't understand how mid-single digit players can have any, let alone multiple doubles in a round on occasion.....

They also get the same amount of strokes saved from birdies. With nearly no more than double bogeys, they are left with just a lot more pars than bogeys.

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