With the average male golfer in the USA having a handicap of 14.4 (this average rises to 16 in the UK) – the average handicap for USA women is 26.4 and 25 in the UK – it may feel that these average score values are high. Source: National Golf Foundation, PGA Tour, LPGA Tour How these average scores for amateur golfers compare to the top pros on the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour is also highlighted in the table below: As this data is based on players with handicaps, and only 20% of the 24.2 million golfers in the USA have an official handicap, the real average is estimated closer to 100 for men and 115 for women. The average score for 18 holes is 95.7 for average male golfers and 107 for women according to the National Golf Foundation. To get the answer to key questions such as what is the average golf score for 18 holes of golf for a regular golfer we had to look in different places and across various data sets to get a good answer. The famous golfing motto that you ‘drive for show but putt for dough’ is a myth! What is the Average Golf Score for the Average Golfer?Ĭompared to the pros where there are any amount of stats you can look at, the data available for amateur golfers is not nearly as detailed or transparent. In the remainder of this article we therefore take a detailed look at the stats to answer all the key questions about scoring in the depth they require and highlight the surprising revelations we discovered along the way.įor example did you know that when it comes to breaking those all-important scoring milestones it is the long game that matters most rather than your short game? Golf unfortunately as we all know is never that simple and the answer to the question of what is a good and bad golf score is always more complicated than it first appears. Now does that mean automatically that if you score more than 90 as a man or 100 as a woman on any given day that is automatically a ‘bad’ score? This is based on the estimated average golf score for men of 95.7 and 107 for women and data from tens of thousands of regular golfers indicating a score of 90 or less is consistently achieved by only 26% of players. While it is very easy for the pros to compare their score against their fellow competitors and know immediately whether their score is good, bad or merely average it is typically a much more difficult exercise for recreational golfers.īut in this article we aim to address that together with many other common questions about golf and bad scoring in the amateur ranks.Ī good golf score over 18 holes for male amateur golfers is 90 or below and 100 or less for women. As every amateur golfer is aware, even though you know you should play the course rather than your opponents when playing golf it is virtually impossible for us average players not to wonder how our scores match up against our peers and the pros.
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