Your Stats 📊
Every number here comes from your actual Shot Scope data. Each stat is compared to what a scratch (0 handicap) golfer looks like. Green = you're there. Yellow = close. Red = biggest opportunity to improve.
Off the Tee
Out of every 10 tee shots, how many land in the fairway? You hit 5 or 47% — just under 5 in 10. The rest go into rough (14% left, 33% right), bunkers (2%), or cost you a penalty (4%).
Starting a hole from the fairway gives you a clean shot at the green. From rough, grass grabs the club and reduces distance and directional control. More fairways = more greens in regulation = more birdie chances.
You're hitting 47% of fairways. Miss pattern is predominantly right (33% right rough vs 14% left). Aim at left-center on tee shots. If you miss right, you're in trouble; if you miss left, you still have a shot. Use your miss direction as your buffer zone.
Distance is not the problem — 307 yards when you catch it clean is tour-level carry. The gap between performance avg (307 yds) and true avg (235 yds) means consistency, not power, is where the gains are. Accuracy over distance.
Iron Shots (Approaches)
— hitting the green from the fairway"Greens in Regulation" means hitting the green in the expected number of shots — 1 on a par 3, 2 on a par 4, 3 on a par 5. Your rate: 39 out of every 100 holes (39%). You miss the green in regulation on 61% of holes.
Every GIR means a real birdie chance. Every missed GIR means you need a perfect chip and putt just to save par. More greens = more birdies, less pressure on short game every single hole.
39% GIR puts you 1% above the 5 HCP benchmark. Scratch hits 65% — a 26% gap. Each additional green hit per round is worth roughly 0.3 strokes vs. your current up-and-down conversion rate.
When you do hit the green, how far from the hole does your ball stop? Your average: 121 feet — about 40 steps. Scratch golfers average 55 feet (18 steps). The closer, the easier the putt.
From 121 ft, making a birdie putt is very difficult — that's deep lag territory. From 55 ft you have a real shot. Closer approach = shorter first putt = fewer 3-putts = lower scores.
121 ft (40 steps) average proximity. Key driver: 36% of iron shots miss the green short entirely — those don't show up as GIRs but contribute to poor average distance on the ones that do reach. And 42% of approach shots land 60+ feet away. Take one more club than instinct says on every shot.
When you don't hit the green, where does the ball go? The dominant miss tells you the most important adjustment to make.
Most common miss by far — take one more club every approach shot.
Rare — distance control is decent.
Small directional miss to the left.
Small directional miss to the right.
Of all approach shots that reach the green, here's the distribution of where they land. Green bars = birdie territory. Red bars = lag putt territory.
⚠️ 42% of approaches land 60+ feet away — 3-putt territory. Getting that below 25% would transform your scoring average. Combined with only 30% inside 15 ft, birdie chances are rare right now.
Short Game
— chips, pitches, and bunker shots"Up and Down" means your ball is off the green, and you chip it onto the green and make the putt in one — saving par or better. Your rate: 45% — about 5 out of every 10 tries. You leave a par on the table 55% of missed greens.
Missing greens happens to everyone. The difference is what happens next. Getting up and down saves bogeys, turns potential doubles into pars, and keeps rounds alive. It's the most direct short game stat that affects your score.
45% up & down — 3% below the 5 HCP benchmark and 13% short of scratch. You're converting more than half, which is real progress. The remaining gap is mostly difficult lies (tight, downhill, awkward angles) where landing spot selection gets harder. Drilling varied positions builds confidence on those.
When your ball lands in a sand bunker, how often do you get it out and make the next putt (saving par or better)? You do this 29% of the time — about 1 in 3 bunker shots. Scratch golfers convert 40%.
Sand shots look scary but good golfers treat them like any other shot. When you can't escape bunkers reliably — or escape but leave it 30+ feet away — a single wayward shot turns into a double. This is a drillable skill that improves fast with focused practice.
29% sand saves — 11% below the 5 HCP average. You're converting about 1 in 3 now, which is real progress. Scratch converts 40% — a 11% gap worth roughly 1 stroke per round. The technique is there; consistency across different lie types is the remaining work.
When you're off the green and chip or pitch, how far from the hole does the ball land on average? Your average: 17 feet — about 6 steps. Scratch golfers chip to within 8 feet on average.
The closer you chip, the easier the putt. A 17-foot putt is hard to make consistently. A 8-foot putt is much more manageable. Tighter chipping directly reduces the pressure on your putting.
17 ft average short game proximity — a 9 ft gap to scratch's 8 ft. You're leaving manageable putts but not yet in the "easy par putt" zone consistently. Chip-specific target zones (not just "near the hole") get the number into single digits.
Putting
— area for improvementWatch this: 30.9 putts per round is 2.9 above scratch's 28 benchmark. Putting used to be a strength — the extra putts are coming from long-range first putts (driven by 42% of approaches landing 60+ ft out) and the 5% make rate from 3–6 feet.
Total putts used in a full 18-hole round. Your average: 30.9 putts. Scratch golfers average 28. Tour pros average 28–29.
Fewer putts = lower scores. Every putt eliminated is a stroke saved. Putts per round is the direct connection between green performance and scorecard.
30.9 putts per round — 2.9 above scratch's 28. This is 0.6 above the 5 HCP benchmark. Extra putts are costly: each one is a shot you can't buy back. Improving first-putt distance control to consistently leave the ball inside 3 feet is the fastest fix.
When you hit the green in regulation, how many putts to finish? Your average: 2 putts per green. Scratch benchmark: 1.72. Close to 2-putt average means occasional 3-putts are happening.
2-putts when you're on in regulation is the baseline. 1-putts are bonus strokes saved. 3-putts are double damage — you already did the work to get there and then wasted it. Keeping this below 2.0 matters.
2 putts per green — 0.28 above scratch's 1.72 and 0.2 above the 5 HCP average. This means you're averaging closer to 2-putts than 1-putt per green. 3-putts on GIR holes are costing you — lag control from 30+ feet is the fix.
How often you make the putt from each distance range. Closer should be higher.
Scoring Breakdown
Across 453tracked holes in 2026, here's how each hole ended up.
Bounce Back: 47% — After a bogey, you respond with par or birdie 47% of the time. This is an area to build — after a bogey, commit hard to par on the next hole before thinking about the scorecard.
Across 453 tracked holes: 61 birdies, 166 pars, 154 bogeys, 66 doubles or worse. Double bogeys at 15% means roughly 3 blow-up holes per 18. Cutting that to 8% would save 2 shots per round — more than almost any other single change.
Best hole type: par 3s. Most strokes above par: par 4s. Par 4s at +0.6 per hole is where most of the handicap lives — those are 10–12 holes per round at +0.6 each. Getting par 4 avg from 4.6 to 4.2 would drop your handicap by roughly 2 shots alone.
Your Club Distances
Actual carry distances tracked by Shot Scope — not what you think you hit, what you actually hit. Use these numbers on every approach shot.
Club selection: Most-used club: 3i (138 shots, 250 yds). Driver at 307 yds is your big hitter — use it when fairway width allows. Key reminder: 36% of iron shots still miss short. When you're between clubs, the data says go longer every time. The risk of being long is almost always less than being short.