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What is your birdie conversion rate from GIR position?  and your HI?    This is an informal survey of how golfers with different skill level convert their GIRs to birdies.   

I have HI of about 15 and convert 8% of GIR putts into birdies.  

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Golfingdad
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~40% over my last two rounds, but that's an absurd anomaly.  ;). I set a record high with 5 birdies two rounds ago (on 11 GIR) and I made one birdie last round on only 3 GIR because I putted from the

Gunther
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Damn dude, 4.1?  Wow.  I think you and I were about even when I joined here a couple years ago, 6-something.  You're going in the right direction, I'm headed the other way.  I'm actually at 9.4 at the

Jeremie Boop
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Because amateurs compete typically in events that use handicap adjustments to equalize the field whereas pros tend to play in events that are scratch so handicap is irrelevant. Plus they also tend to

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~40% over my last two rounds, but that's an absurd anomaly.  ;). I set a record high with 5 birdies two rounds ago (on 11 GIR) and I made one birdie last round on only 3 GIR because I putted from the fringe about 5 or 6 times.

Real answer has to be about 15% or something, I imagine.  I probably average 7-8 GIR, and 1-ish birdie per round.  (Handicap is 4.1 right now)

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Gunther Great Member

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6 hours ago, Golfingdad said:

~40% over my last two rounds, but that's an absurd anomaly.  ;). I set a record high with 5 birdies two rounds ago (on 11 GIR) and I made one birdie last round on only 3 GIR because I putted from the fringe about 5 or 6 times.

Real answer has to be about 15% or something, I imagine.  I probably average 7-8 GIR, and 1-ish birdie per round.  (Handicap is 4.1 right now)

Damn dude, 4.1?  Wow.  I think you and I were about even when I joined here a couple years ago, 6-something.  You're going in the right direction, I'm headed the other way.  I'm actually at 9.4 at the minute but haven't updated here cuz it's painful and I consider it temporary ;-).  Hand pain gone, actually went to the range this week, 1st time in a year.  So, I plan to throw down a 78 or so and be back under 9 by end of day, fingers crossed.  Keep rolling.

No idea what my birdie conversion rate is, I'd guess pretty respectable cuz my putting never left me.

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According to GAME GOLF, I have 68% GIR and 13% birdies.

13%/68% (I almost never chip in for birdie) = 19.12%.

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bkuehn1952 Super Member

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8 hours ago, rkim291968 said:

What is your birdie conversion rate from GIR position?  and your HI?    

Since the beginning of May, I have hit 45.3% of greens in regulation [367/810].  Those GIR's converted to 10.9% or 40 birdies.  My current index is 8.3 and it typically varies from 9.5 to 7.5 over the course of a season.

Those numbers are better than the entire year as I play in almost all conditions from January to December and the stats get a bit thin playing on fuzzy, debris strewn, semi-frozen surfaces.

Brian Kuehn

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Jeremie Boop Super Member

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Using GameGolf like @iacas I have 31% GiR and 3% birdies which comes out to 9.6% conversion of GiR to birdie. Pretty bad :-(

 

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9 minutes ago, Jeremie Boop said:

Using GameGolf like @iacas I have 31% GiR and 3% birdies which comes out to 9.6% conversion of GiR to birdie. Pretty bad :-(

 

Where are you guys finding GIR percentage? I can't find it. :8)

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Just now, CarlSpackler said:

Where are you guys finding GIR percentage? I can't find it. :8)

On the summary for you. Where is shows your GG handicap, average score, etc. Shows 27% GiR for you.

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I really don't track stats, so a guesstimate...

I probably average 6-7 GIR per round and probably 2-3 birdies every 3 rounds or so.  So somewhere well under 15%, probably closer to 10%. 

 

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20 minutes ago, Natural Patrick said:

So what does a Pro HI equate to? The possibility's are endless. 

I don't know what you're asking. I'm about a +1 right now according to GAME GOLF. Pros don't keep handicap indexes.

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This has been frustrating for me. In my last say 5 rounds I've hit a solid number of GIR. Between 6 and 8 each round. I cannot seem to ever convert for birdie. The thing is, I feel like I'm putting very well. I'm always getting it super close to the hole. A tremendous drop in 3-putts. It's just never going in on the first putt. It's killing me. I seriously may have had 1 birdie in my last 5 rounds shooting mid to high eighties. 

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0% birdie conversion.  Even worse, I'm probably hovering a little under 50% for converting GIRs into pars.

GG says i'm a 19.5 HI.  Taking my entire summer into account, I'm about a 24.

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Lifetime according to Game Golf, 8.3%. Last 10 rounds though is something like 1.8%; I only made 1 birdie and it was a 2-putt on a par 5. I've been hitting more GIR and not making birdies due to my putting.

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I usually don't keep stats, but I would guess I'm around 10% with the 6-8 GIR's I normally hit and 1-ish birdie a round. But this weekend, the first day of play I made 4 birdies out of 9 GIR's, then 3 birdies on 7 GIR's and then 1 on 7 GIR's.  So that is about 34% (8 out of 23)

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