How likely you are to 3-putt based on your handicap, according to data

I believe that as golfers we will all agree that some of the annoying issues that may occur throughout a spherical of golf is 3-putting. Whether or not it’s as a result of we put ourselves in a foul spot on the inexperienced away from the flag, or we simply get too aggressive or tentative on the primary try, there isn’t a good option to take three strokes on the inexperienced.

However can there be such a factor as an affordable 3-putt? And what number of occasions ought to we count on to 3-putt primarily based on our handicap, and the way does that evaluate to professionals on the highest stage?

Let’s discover out.

The professionals

When taking a look at knowledge from the PGA Tour, the tour common tells us {that a} participant will 3-putt 2.73% of the time, so for each 1000 holes performed, they’re more likely to 3-putt simply over 27 occasions. One other option to put it’s that the typical PGA tour participant will 3-putt as soon as each two rounds of golf.

Contemplating what number of gamers there are on the PGA Tour, it’s wonderful to see that Maverick McNealy is the one participant to have a 3-putt share beneath 1%, which means that he has to play just below 108 holes, or seven rounds of golf, earlier than he’s more likely to 3-putt (fairly insane numbers)!

Now, should you’re questioning how your recreation ought to stack up on the greens — and should you’re doing higher than most or want to actually work in your placing — we’ve knowledge from Arccos Golf on how usually you might be more likely to 3-putt primarily based in your handicap.

3-Putts primarily based on handicap

Knowledge collected from Arccos Golf customers present us that even the typical scratch golfer is more likely to 3-putt a minimum of as soon as each spherical of golf, and as you may think, as handicaps go up so do the variety of 3-putts per spherical.

This falls in keeping with lots of different handicap associated knowledge that reveals one of the best ways to reducing your scores is to fret much less about making birdies and extra about lowering huge numbers in your scorecard. Just like 3-putts, the same can be said for the club on the other end of your golf bag with the driveras a result of pictures misplaced off the tee by penalty strokes lead to an enormous drawback when approaching greens and, from there, making an attempt to save lots of pictures once you’re already feeling like you need to catch up may end up in compounding errors.

So subsequent time you’re on the course and occur to 3-putt, keep in mind that primarily based in your handicap — even should you’re a scratch golfer — there’s a very excessive chance that it’s going to occur a few occasions a spherical, so so long as you may hold it under your anticipated common there’s a good probability you’re going to attain higher on the finish of the day.

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Ryan Barath is GOLF Journal and GOLF.com’s senior editor for gear. He has an in depth club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all talent ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Earlier than becoming a member of the employees, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Expertise Golf, in Toronto, Canada.