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In this video, Dan Parker explains how close to the flag amateur golfers hit their approach shots into greens by handicap. With the help of data from Arccos golf, he also sheds a light on how many greens you should be hitting per round as well as how close you should be to the flag from different distances away. The chances are, you're not hitting it as close as you think you are - especially from short range, but Dan has all the answers in this video so be sure to watch to the end.
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00:00How close do you think you hit your average approach shots to this thing the pin
00:04on average? I think it's a little closer than you think and I've got all the data to prove it.
00:12So I'm going to be breaking down handicap index by handicap index the average distance away from
00:17the pin in two sets of values right. The first one is how far away they are when a greening
00:22regulation is hit. So that's in two shots on a par 4, three on a par 5 and one on a par 3.
00:27I'm also going to give you the information of when a greening regulation isn't hit. How far away is
00:32this handicap index on average when they don't find the dance floor and all of this information
00:37has come courtesy of Arcos who have now recorded over 1 billion, billion golf shots from real golfers
00:44on real golf courses. This is valuable information. I've been using Arcos now for the best part of three
00:49years. We're going to look at some of my data in a little bit and if you want to get your hands
00:53and start using Arcos yourself I'll put some handy links down in the description
00:56where you can find the best price in your area for a set of their smart sensors.
01:01One more bit of information before we get properly stuck in. Let's take a look at the greening
01:05regulation percentages on average per handicap index right. So what I'm talking about is the
01:11distance away in a greening reg we know how often that's happening per handicap index right. Still with
01:16me? Bring the graph up. The greening regulation percentage for all distances this is per handicap index.
01:23So for a scratch golfer a zero handicap 56% of the time so only just over half 46% at the time for a
01:29five handicap 36% of the time for a 10 27% if you're a 15 and 20% of the time from all distances
01:38if you're a 20 right. Everybody happy? The parameters are set? Let's go find out some information.
01:46Okay all set and let's start with a zero handicap golfer a scratch golfer a very competent golfer that we just
01:51found out is hitting the dance floor 56% at the time from all distances so when they hit a greening
01:57regulation they are on average 26 feet away from the pin and when I actually measure that out it's
02:04quite far isn't it? You think these golfers might be getting within 10 or 15 feet more often than not
02:09but no 26 feet on average and for all shots and this is what I think is the impressive stat from all
02:14distances they are 44 feet away when they miss the green so they're not you know snap hooking it out of
02:20bounds and all that they're probably just missing it in a bunker or over the back or short so that's
02:24a difference of 18 feet when this golfer does hit the green and when they don't hit the green and for
02:29a little bit more context on that the PGA Tour average stands at just over 38 feet for all approach
02:36shots and all distances so they're actually quite close but I guess those fine margins are more greens
02:42hit and more putts hold for those PGA Tour golfers right there next up five handicap and ten handicap
02:50golfers let's start with a five handicap golfer on a greening regulation here they are 28 feet away
02:56from the pin on average so only two more than the scratch golfer for all of their shots though it's 54
03:02feet so a 10 foot difference there from the scratch golfer that difference for the five handicap is 26
03:08foot between a greening regulation hit and a greening regulation missed away from the pin again you
03:13know a little bit more than that scratch golfer as you might expect moving up to a 10 handicap golfer
03:19when they find the greening regulation they are on average 31 feet away from the pin and when they
03:24miss it they are 65 feet away from the pin those numbers are going to start to creep up as you might
03:29expect and that's the difference for the 10 handicap when they do and don't hit a green of 34 feet
03:35which again is pretty significant you've seen those bad shots now are getting worse and again
03:39when i measure out 31 feet it's quite a long way on the green isn't it so you know you think these
03:44golfers that might be better than you they're not pin hunting all the time dancing the ball around the
03:48flag they are just happy to get on the green as most of us should be now i fall into this so as i
03:54promised here's my data warts and all uh i'm a 6.5 index as i currently speak uh from my last 10 rounds
04:01this is so not from all my arcos shots over the years for my recent golf when i hit the green in
04:06regulation i'm on average 26 feet away which is the same as a scratch golfer might i add when i
04:11miss the green though it goes horribly horribly wrong and i'm 56 feet away it's either glory it's
04:17glory or bust with me at the minute it seems over my last 10 rounds anyway a difference of 30 feet
04:21when i do hit a green and when i don't i might expand that out actually because on the arcos app you
04:26can show different periods of time maybe i do all time next time see i'm a golf winner the last three
04:30years who knows but again really interesting stats there to get an idea of how far away which is
04:36quite far away these really good golfers are okay let's look at 15 and 20 index golfers now the 15
04:45index golf when they hit a green in regulation is 33 feet away from the pin on average and for all
04:50shots and including the ones that those ones that are missed it's 75 feet on average again unsurprisingly
04:56we're getting a bit wider here that difference is 42 feet between the green and reg hit and the green
05:01in reg missed for 20 handicapped golfers the green and reg percentage um excuse me the green and reg
05:07difference is actually pretty similar so if there's 20 handicap it's 36 feet away from the pin but those
05:12missed ones are quite different from the 15 handicapper when a 20 handicapper misses the green they're 85
05:17feet away from the pin on average a difference between those two of 49 feet and i guess a nugget i think
05:24most golfers the average is about 19 i think the index at least here in the uk um just try and make
05:30those bad shots less bad is that a piece of advice that's useful probably because you can see the
05:34difference there of 49 feet between a good shot that finds a green a bad shot that misses going to cost
05:39you a heck of a lot of shots so the next bit of day i'm going to talk about is when we work our way
05:44down the hole now per distance how close does each handicap index get into the hole right this will become
05:50clear in a minute so i'm currently stood 65 yards away from this pin behind me and according to the
05:54arcos data i'll bring a table up now a scratch golfer from this distance on average will still be
06:0030 feet away from the pin isn't that an interesting stat quite like that one working our way up five
06:05handicapped golfers 35 feet 10 handicapped 39 feet 15 handicapped 44 feet and 20 handicapped 46 feet on
06:12average and that is between 50 and 74 yards so i'm 65 yards away here and if you're an average golfer
06:19of 15 or 20 handicap you're going to be outside 40 feet from here and that is the average and that
06:24is okay that's the lesson we take from that is from this distance even though you feel like you should
06:28be taking on pins and putting it in gimme distance that that isn't happening and just getting yourself
06:33on the dance floor is what the average golfer is doing and at least gives you a chance to make a putt
06:37or two putt right so i'm working my way further away from the pin now stood at 110 yards away and here's
06:43the data for your handicap index and how close you should be getting to that from here with a little wedge in
06:47your hand for a scratch golfer their average distance away from that pin is 38 feet again
06:53i think these are quite surprisingly large numbers uh five handicap 45 feet 10 handicap 53 feet 15
06:59handicapped 60 feet a 20 handicap golfer is going to be 67 feet away from that pin on average again
07:05another lesson for you golfers out there is if you can a don't be too worried if you're miles away from
07:10the pin from here but if you can tighten up that wedge game you're gonna you're gonna start taking shots
07:14off because that's how these handicap indexes are working all the way down if we worked our way
07:19back a little bit further let's say i got to 140 yards right scratch golfers on average i'll bring
07:25this table up again 45 feet away five handicappers 53 feet away 10 handicappers 62 feet away 15 handicapped
07:3270 feet away and 20 handicapped 77 feet away from that pin from 140 yards away so another 30 yards down that
07:39fairway really interesting stuff i'm gonna work my way a little bit further down the hole now we're gonna
07:44see this distance keep going up right so i've went my way up to 180 yards away from that pin not a lot
07:49loft in your hand now and you can see those distances going up and this includes all shots this isn't
07:53just green regulation this is how far this golf will be away from that pin regardless of where that ball
07:58goes so for the zero handicap they'll be 72 feet away at this stage that wouldn't hit this green i don't
08:04think it's not a very big green so the scratch golf was missing this green five handicap 84 feet 10
08:10handicap 102 feet 15 handicap 124 feet and 20 handicapper 144 feet you can see the differences
08:17between each index increasing here as well i think the skill level of the scratch golfer to the 20
08:22handicap with a six or a five iron in their hand is much broader than when they've both got a wedge in
08:28their hand as we noticed i'm going to do one last one i'm going to move up to about 220 yards away
08:33i'm going to look at how far away these golfers are when they're right right back there okay i'm 215 yards
08:38now away from this pin from behind me and quite frankly looking at this table i'll bring up now
08:42you're not going to hit the green none of these golfers do unless the greens 140 feet uh wide or
08:47long which they aren't very often are they so a scratch golfer from here will get themselves close
08:51enough 140 feet away five handicap 158 10 handicap 182 15 handicap 205 feet and that 20 handicap 226 feet
09:01away which i can't even imagine on this hole to be honest it's quite far away isn't it um so again that
09:07scratch golfers just getting themselves close probably trying to keep it in play and an extra
09:11nearly 100 feet away a 20 handicapper is just trying to trying to scramble from this stage but
09:16i hope this gives you a really good idea both of when that green regulation is hit how close each
09:22handicap index is and how far away they are the further away we get from the pin and the real way
09:27to understand where you sit in this field is to get arcos for yourself use it as much as you can gather
09:32all that data and you can understand using their strokes gain tool and comparing against the stats i've
09:37spoken about today where you sit in that spectrum of all golfers right depending on what handicap index
09:43you are um hope you enjoyed this video i hope you found it informative let me know where you sit
09:48in this bracket if you know in the comments i'd love to hear how you're getting on if you're using
09:51arcos already i hope you found it informative hope you've enjoyed it until next time i'll see you then
10:04you
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