It seems like this chart has nothing to do with handicap, or am I wrong?

[Lihu]

I think handicap depends upon the CR of the course that you made these statistics.

If you shoot an average score of 85, get 5 GIR on average and 0.8 birdies per round your handicap could range from 7 (Course rating/slope of 75/145) all the way up to 17 (67/113).

[Shorty]

It is pointless to the same extent that people here post about "When you first broke 80" or how "I regularly score in the 70s" etc.etc.

Where? On what course? Is there any serious danger? Are there trees? Is a wild tee shot to the adjacent fairway punished?

A person who breaks 80 at home  regularly could not break 95 on some courses on a good day. The person who posts here about struggling to break 80 may comfortably do it on a course played by someone who gives him advice.

It's like people talking about par 5s being eagle opportunities and asking how often people hit them in 2. On many courses the par 5s are the danger holes and you couldn't get with 100 yards of them in 2 in certain conditions.

Apples aren't oranges.

[rkim291968]

I am familiar with the chart.  The chart assumes certain CR for the course.   But the point of the chart IMO is the relationship between score and category.   For example, I "FIR" like 75 but my HI is 19+.   Guess what?   The correlation between FIR and HI is "weak."   The relationship chart is pretty accurate and tells me what category for me to track closely.

[Golfingdad]

I believe you are correct, @Lihu ... it says "average score" at the top and I see nothing on there that talks about handicap.

Just for fun, though .... According to gamegolf,

My average score:     80.7    vs.     chart at 81

GIR:                           7                     7

Fairway %:         around 25%             56

Putts:                        30                    32

Birdies:                     1.8                    1.5

Pars:                        8.3                    8.1

I don't know what those other two categories mean so I ignored them, but those numbers jive pretty well.  My handicap isn't considered here at all, so it's irrelevant.  If I happened to have these stats on 7k yard course at 74 rating, I'd be around a 3 or 4.  Likewise, same exact stats on 6k course, rating 69, I'd probably be around a 10 or 11.

[cedrictheo]

The fairway % numbers in that chart seem very off to me. The pga tour average was 61.05% last year...

[GolfMaineiac26]

This chart has nothing to do with handicap, handicap takes into account the Course Rating and the Slope Rating(course difficulty) and averages it out based on your average score during round play over multiple rounds, for example, Jim plays at a 18 hole par 72 course with a course rating of 78 and slope rating of 121 his score over the course of 4 rounds is 82, 80, 81, 83, 82 Jim's handicap is 1.8

this is my understanding of a basic handicap system, I may be off a little but, this is the general idea.

[Rulzguy]

Shorty, you and I would get along just fine on the course. I couldn't have said it any better.