[Timoxari]

You would think technology would help but as clubs go farther courses get longer. As they get more accurate they build more trouble. Have 1960's average golfers play today's courses with their equipment. Bad juju!

Also, lighter, longer, faster, thinner faces does equal more distance. But with a bad swing it just equals farther OOB!!!


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[vigraxtru]

Fun reading even if the numbers are a few years old. Would be really interested to see how they looked today

Quote from the book "Golf of your dreams", by Bob Rotella:

"Fifteen years ago, the average American male golfer's handicap was 16.2. The average female golfer's handicap was 29. Today, the average American male golfer's handicap is 16.2 and the average female golfer's is 29. American golfers have not gotten any better."

So the stats should be quite similar today

[ruforumczspam]

I like how in the scale of the curve I am still on one of the outlying edges - but the wrong one... darnit.

[Glamyclitlemi]

Fun reading even if the numbers are a few years old. Would be really interested to see how they looked today

[durootrium]

It is a bit dated but according to a 2005 National Golf Foundation [NGF] report the distribution of scores among men is as follows:
< 80: 5.0% of golfers
80-89: 19.7%
90-99: 27.2%
100-119: 32.8%
> 119: 15.3%

And the average score of amateur men is 98.3.

In other words, Golf is hard and we need to temper our expectations. For as much as we think we should be able to break 90 (for example) only about a fourth of all golfers do it.

I'm guessing the numbers would hold true today. Equipment may advance, but the human still has to do the swinging. Our club course record was set in the late 1960's and still stands today. Set with 1960's technology and still standing. Golf is still hard.

[bmwservis]

Wow I rank decently high... this would probably assume that all rules are followed. Some guys will say they shot a 98, but that was leaving out the two balls in the water, three drag putts that they failed to count, and the whiff on hole 15. Makes the score a lot higher.

I would agree with this. But in all reality, it doesn't matter to those who will never compete. Go ahead and leave those shots out. It makes the game a lot more fun.

[CedssypeEdids]

I would agree with those numbers from what I see... I shoot normally now 95 to 100 and can beat a fair amount of random people I get paired up with.

[XarokLasa]

Fun reading even if the numbers are a few years old. Would be really interested to see how they looked today

Wouldn't be surprised if they were similar.

[fount_pirat]

**Slowly raises hand**
Guess I'm in the 5%


Seriously though that's some interested numbers though.

[brulpcoersero]

Not surprised by that, although that is for ALL golfers, even the couple rounds a year guys, I would guess. People who take the time to participate on a golf forum are not your typical golfers, I wouldn't think.

Although I know a lot of good golfers who wouldn't think about logging into a golf forum (or so they say, haha).

Agree with that for sure. I wonder what the average hcp is of all the regular THP'ers? 12?