Scrambling recovery?

[Saint]

What does that mean?

[brgolf]

You may be referring to the times when a player finds himself not having reached the green in regulation and must get an up and down for par.

[Zeph]

Not finding the green in regulation and getting par or better on the hole. Doesn't matter if you're in the rough, fringe or bunker.

"He's scrambling well today", means a player is missing a lot of greens, but playing well around and on the greens so he still manage to score par or better.

[Saint]

okay. So what it means is that is you have say a 25% GIR, you would like atleast a 50% scramble recovery?

[Zeph]

You would always want 100%. If you miss 33% of the greens, which would be 6 greens and get up and down 3 times, you have a 50% scramble recovery. If you get it up and down 6/6 times, you have a 100% scramble recovery. This is of course depending on the severity of your misses, your shortgame and putting. Keeping record of it is a way to track your progress in the shortgame.

[Saint]

Okay, I see now. My last time out, I was 50% fairway, 28% GIR, 50% sand save, 1/2, and like 10% scramble. Is this kind of average for most golfers? I had 36 putts, : (, but i still shot an 89. For right now, thats pretty good for me unfortunately, but I should easily be in the low 80's to high 70's.

[brgolf]

It sounds like your short game needs work. Hitting 28%- 5 greens in regulation should yield 5 pars minimum, but for a good player 4-5 genuine birdie chances. 36 putts is reasonable in theory if you hit 18 GIR though you would still expect some 1 putts. But if you miss your GIR you are essentially meant to scramble. You miss 72% GIR, I would work off the basis that you should have taken 26-28 putts in that round. Of the 13 greens you have missed you've played the chip/bunker shot but taken 2 putts far too many times. Obviously some shots from off the green are harder than others, but if you have a short to medium range chip the goal is to get it in the hole or real close.