SMS - Average Three Putts, Scratch, 10, and 20

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.7 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. Today's question is one of the most basic for lowering scores: three-putt avoidance. How often do various handicap levels three-putt? Lou puts that question to Mark and Greg, and after sorting out the answers, the guys give their best advice for not wasting shots on the green.

Each of these will be a mini-episode (10-15 minutes long) about an interesting golf stat. We will discuss what you can learn, and most importantly, how you can apply this on the golf course to lower your scores and lower your handicap.

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0:00.0	Saturday's that time and we're doing it live, which is always the best way.
0:06.8	Lewis, hit me.
0:08.9	All right.
0:09.5	This is an easy one.
0:11.0	Even Mark Crossfield should be able to understand this quickly and get his answers quickly and not fumble through what's going on.
0:22.7	Average number of three putts per round.
0:25.4	Yeah, like this.
0:26.1	Average three puts per round for a scratch, a 10, and a 20.
0:30.3	This will be best of three.
0:31.6	So what's the average number of three puts they have?
0:34.3	Scratch.
0:34.6	Per round for a scratch, a 10 index, and a 20 index who goes first um i don't remember
0:43.0	i i won last time so i'm happy to go first i remember exactly who won because i won i won
0:48.9	last time i always remembers that it's amazing Did I tell you that I won last time?
0:56.4	I did lose, no, but I might be wrong.
0:59.0	I lost the ones prior, but I think I won last time.
1:06.8	Anyway, so my first answer for Scratch, I've got 0.8.
1:08.3	Oh, I'm the same.
1:09.6	0.8.
1:10.6	Did I change? No. Are you happy for you to be the same? That's the same. 0.8. Should I change?
1:11.5	No.
1:13.6	Are we happy to be the same?
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