The second ladies’s main of the 12 months, the U.S Open, takes place at Erin Hills this week, coinciding with the annual Girls’s Golf Week (Might 27 – June 3, 2025). With ladies’s participation in golf on the rise, and with Shot Scope’s mission to assist each golfer enhance by means of modern and accessible know-how, there is no such thing as a higher time to take a deep dive into the statistics underlying ladies golfers.
How far ought to ladies hit it primarily based in your handicap?
P-Avg. or Efficiency-Common is Shot Scope’s knowledge metric that provides gamers a membership distance {that a} well-struck shot will journey by eradicating excessive outliers from the dataset, each good and dangerous. With the typical girl’s handicap within the mid-to-high 20s, relying on the area and governing physique, a drive within the area of 160-170 yards could be thought-about on par with the typical golfer.
If you’re routinely hitting it 177 yards or longer, you’re above common and are doubtless gaining strokes in your fellow opponents. If you’re arising a bit shy, then some added distance will make it easier to submit decrease scores, as accuracy off the tee will not be a difficulty.
Girls golfers excel at hitting fairways.
If we apply these percentages to a course with 4 par 3s, all the handicap brackets hit, on common, eight fairways per spherical. The 30 handicapper is barely three p.c shy of the ten handicap golfer when it comes to fairways hit. Nonetheless, they’re a whopping 44 yards shorter. In the case of the second shot, this distinction has a profound impression on membership choice and the probability of hitting the inexperienced.
The place a ten handicap golfer would have a PW in hand, the 30 handicap golfer may have as much as a 5 wooden. By way of proximity to the pin, the ten handicap golfer will sometimes be 5 instances nearer. Off the tee, undeniably, gamers are correct, however does this translate to their strategy play?
From 100 yards, how shut are ladies hitting it?
Many might imagine that hitting the inexperienced from 100 yards is a assure, however the knowledge paints a really completely different image. For the typical golfer, from 100 yards, the probability of hitting the inexperienced is round one in 4, which implies that 75 p.c of pictures from 100 yards will miss the inexperienced.
The commonest miss in golf, when it comes to strategy play, is brief, with roughly one in two pictures coming to relaxation simply shy of the inexperienced. If this sounds acquainted, attempt enjoying to the again of the inexperienced distance in your GPS gadget, when you’ve got one, you might discover it transforms your strategy play and inexperienced hit success. When lacking the inexperienced, gamers face the problem of making an attempt an up and down.
How do feminine gamers carry out from shut vary?
When confronted with the awkward distance of 10-20 yards and the choice of whether or not to pitch, chip, or attempt one thing artistic, gamers have combined success. By way of up and down probability, the ten handicap golfer is 3 times extra more likely to rise up and down than the 30 handicapper.
As soon as on the inexperienced, the info behind placing highlights why getting up and down is so onerous.
All of it revolves round proximity. The distinction between putts inside three ft and people from three to 6 ft is staggering. For the decrease handicapper, the ten handicap, the probability of holing their putt drops by simply over a 3rd from past three ft. For the typical 20 handicapper, the probability drops from nearly a useless certainty, 9 in 10, to roughly a 50/50 likelihood – a toss of a coin nearly. For greater handicaps, they’re twice as more likely to gap from zero to 3 ft versus three to 6 ft (85 p.c versus 40 p.c). Though the drop off is critical, it ought to assist with expectation administration; putts from three to 6 ft are under no circumstances a gimme, so don’t get annoyed if you happen to aren’t holing all of them.
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With the U.S Girls’s Open and Girls’s Golf Week happening on the similar time, it’s shaping as much as be an excellent week for golf.
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