Even Zach Johnson, with whom I have had the great pleasure of working with for five years, is often considered a short hitter. To play the game for a living, one must be able to hit it straight and far. The chart above shows us that the biggest piece of the 5.5-shot pie falls into the Driving category, or Distance, which makes sense to me. The net result is a 5.45-shot difference between Tour players and Mr. Scratch.įurther, Tour players are playing courses that are 3.2 strokes more difficult. The chart below tells us that the PGA Tour scoring average is 2.25 strokes better than Mr. My specific goal was to gain an understanding of how the system works so that I could effectively apply it in my analysis program.įor the purposes of this article, the Course Rating reflects the relative course par for the scratch golfer. I joined my local course rating committee shortly after the new “Slope” system was added. The USGA’s Course and Slope rating system does a sophisticated job of evaluating the relative difficulty of our golf courses. PGA Tour: The average of the 14,557 ShotLink rounds recorded in the 2015 season.Scratch actually played to his 0 handicap. Scratch: I averaged the 8,360 rounds in our database that match the zero handicap criteria. One of the beauties of our averages is that they are smooth across all five major facets so that every individual golfer’s strengths and weaknesses - and we all have them - stand out clearly by comparison. With that said, our 800,000+ round database enables us to create a composite sketch of the average golfer at each level. We’re all snowflakes and find our own unique way to shoot our number. My experience tells me that there is no such thing as an average game, no matter the handicap level. I created the Strokes Gained analysis website,, before my time at SwingU as the Chief Data Officer and I work with PGA Tour members to extract clear answers from the Tour’s overwhelming 653 ShotLink stats. I have been studying the game from a statistical standpoint for 27 years. You might ask: How would I know the differences between a scratch golfer and a PGA Tour player? Well, it is my full-time job to know these type of things about golf.
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