The answers to my question about putts per round made me wonder what high handicappers who are already putting more or less OK have to do improve their scores, so i dug up some stats (from Golf Digest 2001) - broken down by handicap (I can post them if you want).

Perhaps not surprisingly its just as we are told - short game, short game short game. The stats though are a welcome reminder about where our practice time (and lessons) should be spent.

An 18+ handicapper standard putter (34 ppr) will be no more than 5 putts worse off than a scratch player. However he / she will miss GIR 12 or more times; and will get up and down 2 - or 3 times at best.

10 opportunities around the green to save a stroke or more.

I intend to be a reformed character from now on and practice my chipping and putting more.

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