SCRATCH GOLFERS Vs PGA TOUR PLAYERS… KEY DIFFERENCES REVEALED!

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Have you ever wondered how good scratch golfers actually are and how they might fare on the PGA Tour against some of the best players in the world? Well in this video, Dan Parker takes a look at how the stats compare with these two types of player with the help of Arccos Golf to see exactly where the differences lie.

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0:00-0:30 Introduction
0:30 Driving
2:07 Approach Play
3:18 Putting
5:01 Scoring

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some non- golfers can be forgiven for thinking that a scratch handicapper is equal to a tour professional but the truth is there is miles between the [Music] two so thanks to numbers from Arcos golf gleaned from some 800 million real shots we’ve been able to take these stats from scratch golf for 0.0 index golfers and compare them against PGA Tour stats to see how big that golf is and spoiler warning it’s pretty big [Music] so let’s start with driving let’s do distance first between this scratch golfer and tour professional we’re going to do average tour stats to start so scratch golfer uh averages 259 yards off the T which would leave them an awful awful long way back of the average player on the PGA tour and that average is 299.99 40 yards back from their PGA Tour counterparts now if we then look at that comparison between the longest player on tour which in 2223 was Rory marroy he averaged 326 yards so that scratch player would now be about 66 yards behind maroy on average which is such a huge difference when you think about the irons they be hitting into the green how far back they are on par fours and Par fivs and which par fours and Par fives become reachable now let’s look at driving accuracy and unsurprisingly once again the tour Pros are much more accurate the scratch golfer will find a fairway 51% of the time which is pretty good but the average PGA Tour professional is hitting just under 60 so nearly 10% more there uh during the 2023 season it was Russell Henley who was the most accurate and he hit a whopping 72% of Fairways across a season which is pretty huge so ultimately that driving distance is a huge huge golf while the accuracy of about 10% is pretty significant too right then next up let’s check Greens in regulation approach play so not only are these players now PJ tour Pros about 40 yards further up the hole than their scratch counterpart but they’re hitting more greens too probably because they’re a bit closer on average depend on the courses they’re playing uh but let’s look at the stats a scratch goal for hits an average of 56% % of Greens in regulation while the PJ tour average is 66.3 2 so 10% difference there again similar to driving accuracy we just looked at for some context about who’s doing that on the tour at the minute world number one at the time of recording Scotty Sheffer led the touring Greens in regulation last year for the past two years in fact so two years ago it was 72.2 n% and in 2023 74.4 3 % of greens hit I’m a single index golfer and to me scratch golfers are like wow I’m nowhere near them and they’re nowhere near these PGA Tour players at the end of the day so for Scotty Sheffer that equates to 13.4 Greens in regulation per round whereas scratch golfers are averaging just over [Music] 10 so we’re on the green now and we’re putting but what is the difference between scratch and Tor Pros here now we’re going to look at uh number of one puts number of three putts and then total putts per round on average between these two players so let’s start with three putts the scratch gol for averages 1.3 three putts per round which is still pretty low whereas the PGA Tour average at the minute stands at 0.49 which is less than a three per every other round uh now the best for this last year on the PJ tour is Aaron badley you remember him not seen him for a while however he averaged just 0.24 three putts per round like Seas on the tour which is one every what less than one every four is pretty crazy to think such a huge gol between these um two players at the minute uh let’s look at one putts per round then so zero digit golfers are one putting 5.2 times per round on average which still Falls well short of the PGA Tour average which was 7.07 in 2023 uh topping the rankings for that on the tour was Taylor Montgomery who averaged 8.29 one puts per round and Montgomery also topped the putts per round statistics with an average of 27.3 eight now that stat is almost 1.7 lower than the toour average which is 29.02 putts per round with scratch golfers averaging 30.7 putts per round so about 1.7 more putts than the average tour pro from last year and they add up really don’t they they at three putts out of one puts and those total putts per round show you those sort of differences between scratch players and the tour Pros so lastly then when we’re comparing these two golfers and I want to pause for a minute and think about what the actual handicap differences are between a scratch golfer and a tour pro so the average handicap of the current PJ tour players is predicted at around plus 5.4 so talking five and a half shot difference between your scratch player here Tiger Woods in 2008 his handicap was estimated to be+ 11 or+ 12 I know John arms on the World handicap system was predicted to be around this 18 months ago so we’ve seen the golf in areas of the game in the stats and we can see that ultimately leads to about five shots per round that’s the key difference there uh but let’s finally look at at scoring totals right what happens in birdies and Bogies and how each type of player plays on par threes fours and fives right so start with scoring tall Pros shock horror pick up more birdies and bogey less than scratch golers but how many so the tour leader last year for birdies per round was ludvig Ober 4.76 per round which is pretty whopping and that’s well over double the amount of scratch play I make which is 2.2 the tour average for birdies at the minute is 3.72 so that’s still gives you 1.5 more birdies per round for a PJ Tor Pro than a scratch player so for Bogies the story is very very similar if you look at a scratch player they’re making two more bogeys per round than the PGA Tour pros and 2.8 more than the PGA tour leader which last year was Scotty Sheffer making just 1.82 Bogies per round which is kind of mad to think really isn’t it but I guess when they’re driving it that accurately hitting that many greens it’s going to happen isn’t it um if we look at the scoring on par 3es fours and fives it’s actually very similar here which I found really interesting when we dived into this um so on par 3es a scratch go for average is 3.1 a PGA Tour average is 3.06 that’s pretty negligible uh par fours bit more of a golf here scratch golf is average 4.2 the pros average 4.03 so just a hair over par on those par fours finally then on the par five this is where both scratch and pro golfers take advantage of golf courses and start scoring a bit better the pros do it marginally better again so the par five average for Scratch golf is 4.7 whereas it’s 4.6 63 for the PGA tour pro so we can kind of see there where the scoring chips away and it feels to me at least like the biggest difference and we all knew there was one anyway but the biggest difference is that driving distance huge amount of driving distance and I guess when these Pros are playing much longer courses much tighter courses that does play to their advantage but I think ultimately although we knew the differences were big between these two players the stats from Aros have shown us they’re perhaps even bigger we initially thought