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For the average golfer who may hit 10-11 GIR, Putts per round is a meaningless stat. To the low HDCP to pro who may hit 14+ GIR it is telling. Like they say there are Lies,Damn Lies and Statistics. It all comes down to the context. 28 Putt with 9 GIr tells you you can chip. 28 Putts with 14 GIr and you shot 67
I agree, this statistic can be very misleading. I think a much better one that they do use on the PGA tour is Putts per green in regulation. If you took that stat, and coupled it with your up and down %, you are going to come away with a much better indicator of how you are faring with your short game.
10-11 girs is avg? man i am wayyy behind
I think that putts per round is overrated. Back in May I was playing a round on a course with some very challenging greens. I had a 4 and a 5 putt on a couple of tiered greens. I finished 18 holes with less than 35 putts. So it looked like I putted poorly, but in reality other than two holes, I putted fantastic.
I have always battled the putts per round number as a telling statistic. On one hand it tells you clearly how many times you are using your putter. But in my game of golf, I think that is the only thing it does. Why dont I keep a Drives per round, or wedges per round? Let me explain ( my weird thinking anyway).
PPR does not tell me if I am making good putts or bad putts. It does not take into factor any type of scoring whatsoever. I decided to do a little study. My last 5 rounds out (clearly a small sampling), the rounds that I had less putts per round, I had a higher score than the rounds I had more putts per round. Why?
Because in the rounds with less putts, it did not mean I made more birdies. It in fact meant I missed more greens and was chipping on close rather than having a 12-20 foot putt for birdie or par.
To me it is a very misleading statistic. On one hand we all want to make more putts, but on the other hand, someone could quite easily have 18 putts total if they missed every green and chipped on. GIR is a far more telling number and maybe the two combined give some players some semblance of what their round is going to end up or what they have to work on, but I just dont get it.
I think its another number that we worry far too much about when playing rather than just hitting greens and 2 putting. Maybe this is more of a thought than a thread, but I just do not see how the total putts per round plays that much role in score unless you are hitting every green and 3 putting. Because if you miss the green, odds are you are going to have less putts per round, thus rewarding the statistic for taking away from another one.
Thoughts on my rambling?
This exact thing came up today while I was playing in our weekly LGA event. I shot an 83 and had 36 putts. A lady who shot well over a 100 was rewarded with a win (chip in pot for whoever has the least putts) for only having 30 putts. Why heck yeah. She didn't have a single GIR and I had nine. I felt I putted decent today considering I left myself some very long putts at times. There's got to be a better way to measure putting success. It's just too tedious to keep up with for me.