Those with handicaps below zero are more specifically called "plus-handicappers. According to the USGA, 1. Among women golfers, the percentage is even smaller: 0. So the percentage of golfers who are scratch is very, very small. What about among golfers who don't have official handicap indexes? There's no way to know for sure, but we can say this: The percentages are even lower. After all, if you're really that good, wouldn't you want everyone to know it? Something else we can confidently say about unhandicapped recreational golfers: A lot fewer are scratch golfers than claim to be.
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The scorecard par really has nothing to do with defining a golfer's handicap index. A golfer's handicap index takes into account the best 10 scores of a golfer against each course rating, suggesting a golfer's potential average score on a good day. For golf course rating purposes, which is the foundation of determining player handicap indexes, a "scratch golfer" is a player who can drive the ball at least yards and can reach a yard hole in two shots at sea level.
Working through the USGA's terminology, a scratch golfer is basically a golfer who is good enough to get zero handicap strokes on any golf course, from any set of tees in a net competition. If a scratch golfer plays in a net tournament, their gross score is the same as their net score, or worse.
A scratch golfer can have better than a 0. They could have a positive handicap and be better than scratch, meaning they actually have to add strokes to their score in a net competition. The pro golfer is that much better! So if you get close to scratch, there is still a way to go before heading out to quality for the PGA Tour or even the mini tours. So I did a little comparison to the stats above and looked at the 25th rank player in each of the categories above where I gave percentages for the scratch golfer, so I can make a comparison and see where the true gap is.
When you consider the firmness of the greens and the difficulty in green complexes that are played on the tour, this number might be even larger if both the scratch golfer and the professional golfer played on the same course. So a minor difference, but over time this number will add up. Once again, this is significant if you compared the rough on tour to the average course in your area.
This would equal around 2. This is a slight difference here, which can be misleading. For the golfer that saves par all day by getting up and down, this number can be thrown off. Assuming the golfer misses around 6 greens per 18 holes, this comes out to about. Not a major difference, but over the 4 rounds of a tournament, we are talking 2 total strokes. Here we see a major gap between the scratch golfer and the 25th ranked PGA Tour player in driving distance.
The scratch golfer is giving up 54 yards on the par 5s and par 4s. This is a major gap when you start talking proximity to the pin on the PGA Tour from certain differences. Being able hit the ball long is a game changer and one that area if you are seeking to get your game to the highest level, must train to get there. Enter SuperSpeed Golf! The good news is that there are ways to improve your swing speed as we have learned from watching golfers in the past several years like Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and others who have more quietly added distance.
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