Frequency of Birdies

[BuckeyeNut]

4 hours ago, bkuehn1952 said:

Average Score / Birdies a Round 
71 - 3.2 birdies a round 
75 - 2.4 birdies a round 
79 - 1.8 birdies a round 
81 - 1.5 birdies a round 
85 - 0.8 birdies a round 
89 - 0.1 birdies a round 
91+ pretty much make so few as to be irrelevant. 

I've kept hole by hole stats for many years and I'd say the above is pretty accurate based on my personal experience as my game has evolved over the years.   

[billchao]

2 hours ago, RandallT said:

Your scores ranged from low 80s to 109. For the low 80s round, you had 3 of your 4 birdies!

Yea I remember that round well. I had a "career" day on ballstriking (like that one day I was sinking putts from everywhere). Hit my drives long and straight. Two of those birdies came from putts inside 4'.

Even if we dismiss this particular round as an outlier, I'm still 0.2 birdies per round, way above the expected average.

2 hours ago, RandallT said:

Whew, does the rollercoaster ride get tiring? 

Must not, because I keep getting back on the ride 

[rkim291968]

Same home course, same tee stat for the last 3 years:

2016 = 95.29 strokes & 0.18 birdies per round.   

2015 = 98.27 strokes & 0.10 birdies per round

2014 = 99.83 strokes & 0.15 birdies per round

 

Better birdie stat than the chart but I have a relatively better putting skill than average 90+ stroke player.  

[iacas]

I make 13% birdies. In one round, that's 2.34.

I don't make a lot of birdies, but I manage to avoid making very many bogeys and definitely don't make many double bogeys.

[Fourputt]

Made one today.  That's one in the last 27 holes and counting (all that I've played this year).

[Fairway_CY]

My Game Golf average score is 98.5 and I average 0.4 birdies per round.  

It seems that I tend to go on runs where I'll make birdies and then runs where I won't make anything.  

* shrug *

CY

[flopster]

This seems fairly accurate, I usually get between 1-2 per round with the occasional 3 and even 4 birdie round, if I could putt a little better I'm beyond positive my hdcp would be 2 points lower and of course the birdies would be double too.

[natureboy]

It's going to vary somewhat depending on the course. Higher skill on shorter / easier course = higher birdie % and vice versa. I had a chart done up by average score which is relatable to HCP for a 'typical course'. Ask @Lihu if he still has it. I'll see if I can find my copy.

[Lihu]

3 hours ago, natureboy said:

It's going to vary somewhat depending on the course. Higher skill on shorter / easier course = higher birdie % and vice versa. I had a chart done up by average score which is relatable to HCP for a 'typical course'. Ask @Lihu if he still has it. I'll see if I can find my copy.

I looked for it, but didn't find it in my inbox. I think attachments might have been lost when we went to this new site system. Sorry about that. . .

I will say that Game Golf seems to track everything pretty well. Although my birdie percentage is only 4%. Possibly because of my terrible short game, or just my terrible overall game.

[natureboy]

26 minutes ago, Lihu said:

I looked for it, but didn't find it in my inbox. I think attachments might have been lost when we went to this new site system. Sorry about that. . .

I will say that Game Golf seems to track everything pretty well. Although my birdie percentage is only 4%. Possibly because of my terrible short game, or just my terrible overall game.

Your percentage seems in the right range.

Caveat that these charts are relative to a long-term average and approximate - individual games do vary (steady players vs. long-hitting but erratic). Amounts are in # per round you'll have to convert for %.

~ Scoring distribution vs. Avg Score.

~ Scoring distribution vs. HCP for CR of 72. Higher course rating shifts x-axis values to the right.

[Lihu]

21 hours ago, natureboy said:

Your percentage seems in the right range.

Caveat that these charts are relative to a long-term average and approximate - individual games do vary (steady players vs. long-hitting but erratic). Amounts are in # per round you'll have to convert for %.

~ Scoring distribution vs. Avg Score.

~ Scoring distribution vs. HCP for CR of 72. Higher course rating shifts x-axis values to the right.

Cool, so my putting is not that horrible, I suppose?

[Mike Boatright]

To me that's the key to getting good I shoot 3 when I'm playing and sometimes one or none makes sense.

[dave s]

Yesterday's round included 1 birdie and 3 pars.  Carded 87.  Think I only had 2, (maybe 3) doubles as well.

My take on the initial chart posted is that ratio of birdies to actual score might be UNDERstated.

If I have 1 birdie, I'm breaking 90.  If I had 3 birdies in a round I'd maybe card 80-82.  No WAY 3 birdies on my card would result in a 71.  Ever!

dave

[disaster]

I just took a look at my last 15 tournament rounds. I was averaging 3.46 birdies per round. Average score should be between +1 and +2.

 

The results are pretty accurate with what I had on my mind ...  I am making more birdies than a lot of players, but I also make a lot more bogies ... For this year, I am really determined to use a better course management :D

[vangator]

Most rounds I have one birdie.  Yesterday was two.  I have a tendency to turn a lot of birdies into pars.

[bkuehn1952]

17 hours ago, dave s said:

... If I had 3 birdies in a round I'd maybe card 80-82.  No WAY 3 birdies on my card would result in a 71.  Ever!

dave

The "Score" reflects one's average score over an extended period of time, say a year or so.  If you averaged 3 birdies a round for a year, you just might shoot "71" now and again.

[Pete]

29 birdies in 23 rounds (1.26 per round). Average score over those rounds is 77.93. That seems about right, maybe slightly lower than average birdies for the average total score.

If you are including non-competition rounds then my average is almost exactly 2 birdies per round. 

Edited March 14, 2016 by Pete

[Pete]

55 minutes ago, bkuehn1952 said:

The "Score" reflects one's average score over an extended period of time, say a year or so.  If you averaged 3 birdies a round for a year, you just might shoot "71" now and again.

I would say if you averaged 3 birdies a round over a year, you would shoot 71 or better quite often. A lot of those rounds will have 4 or 5 birdies and a few with 6.