[cauddyVab]

GHIN is the most popular, but you can have a NGN number also. Both are acceptable for tournament play. I use NGN because that is what Golf Channel Game Tracker uses.

[spacecrafty]

index is 13- happy to see where I fit in!

[Muhabsssa]

Exactly. I think what the stat actually shows, using you numbers, is that over 90% of people who expend the effort to post an official score break 100 semi regularly. That doesn't surprise me at all, as there is some significant self-selection bias in that group.

Be still my beating heart!

Okay, back on topic...

Soxy, do you have a link to that? It would be fun to run some basic analyses without having to key in the data from scratch.

[deandrecooke]

Great information...the USGA does not happen to list how many people are registerd with USGA handicaps do they? It would be interesting to apply those percenatges to actual number of people to see how many people are as good or better then you are.

I guess otherwise you could look around each time you go to the range or golf course and assume (you know what they say about that word) that the % (next to your handicap on the list) is how many people there are as good as you are...or worse

[turbutbamethyg]

Ok, I only had 6 useable scores to use & it gave me a 16.6 handicap. I'll start adding more as I go.
Ya'll are killin my theory of PROCRASTINATION
Hard work pays off later BUT
procrastination pays off now.
LMAO

[ImmimiFruff]

Glad you got your HDCP figured out.

I would procrastinate right now, but I'd rather wait until tomorrow.

[Master_B]

Soxy, do you have a link to that? It would be fun to run some basic analyses without having to key in the data from scratch.

Here you go, they are on the USGA website:

men's

women's

[ImmimiFruff]

I say the women are more honest than the men.

[Master_B]

I say the women are more honest than the men.

Do you really think the guys aren't being honest? What is the point of getting a handicap if it isn't your real score? All that would do would hurt you on the course?

I think it is more that if guys aren't that good, they don't register for a handicap. Whereas women aren't as self conscious about not having a low score so they get one either way.

I was also thinking that a lot of women golfers play in leagues which may require a handicap. I don't know a single guy golfer who plays in a league. Why is that?

[ImmimiFruff]

Pride? Actually, people who are keeping an "official" handicap are better than people who keep "unofficial" handicaps. Still it surprises me that 90% of all men who keep an official handicap break 100 semi regularly. I figured the men's stats would look more like the women's stats.