single figure golfers

[Simbo]

does anybody know what percentage of golfers in the uk play of single figures?

what percentage play in Cat 1??(under 5)

 

[golfstick]

12.452354346534221% i believe

 

[Toby_LeRhone]

12.452354346534221% i believe

I suspect that its somewhat less than that.

 

[golfstick]

12.352354346534221% ? then

 

[Toby_LeRhone]

I was thinking more along the lines of 1.2352354346534221%.

 

[golfstick]

surely not that low

 

[mostivoi]

Dont know bout Uk but was told many moons ago that in the world it was less than 10%

 

[Toby_LeRhone]

I guess it all depends on how you define 'golfer'.

 

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[Up_Point_1]

I believe it's less than 1% of all golfers but don't quote me on that. To be honest though it might be a somewhat misleading stat as am sure somebody once told me it's calculated from the entire golf playing population, and not just from those with an official handicap.

I am however, as always, prepared to be corrected by those with superior knowledge

UP1.

 

[USER1999]

At my club it is near 30% at a guess. but if I look at the golf society I belong to, most of whom are not members anywhere, there is one out of 50 odd.

 

[drewmagoo]

6% of male members at my club are in Cat 1. 18% are off single figures.

I think that's fairly representative of most clubs, but there are obviously a lot of golfers who aren't members and fewer of them would be off single figures, I suspect.

 

[3offTheTee]

At my club it is near 30% at a guess.

Think you must be way off the mark there. That is an unbelievable figure unless they are semi pros!

 

[Imurg]

Just under 1% of my club are single figures. That only includes those members that actually play comps - there are loads that just play socially and never enter comps.

 

[USER1999]

At my club it is near 30% at a guess.

Think you must be way off the mark there. That is an unbelievable figure unless they are semi pros!

We do a high / low drawn comp in the winter. The half way mark is about 12. There are a heck of a lot of single digit golfers. I guess the course must be easy.

 

[Region3]

Ours is 2.4% cat1, 9.8% sfg

 

[EZprophet]

At my club it is near 30% at a guess.

Think you must be way off the mark there. That is an unbelievable figure unless they are semi pros!

We do a high / low drawn comp in the winter. The half way mark is about 12. There are a heck of a lot of single digit golfers. I guess the course must be easy.

Yeah but thats just a representation of people who play comps, which is obviously going to be balanced way more towards the better golfers in the club.

At my home club there is a handicap board with everyones handicap on it (not sure if all clubs do this or not...) and when you look at it, 80% of the names you don't even recognise! And all those handicaps are in the 20's. Even that doesn't take into account the members of the club who don't have a handicap... and then on top of THAT is the fact that the majority of golfers aren't members of clubs and don't even have handicaps!

I have no clue what the number would be, but if I were to guess I'd say somewhere around 5% ...

 

[USER1999]

As this comp is a high / low drawn foursomes, played over the winter, ironically, most of the best golfers don't want to play in it. As a result I would guess it is pretty representative.