What is the average handicap of a Golf Club Atlas poster?

[RJ_Daley]

Brad, the correlation to low handicaps and number of posts is well noted.  But, there are also other factors that tilt the averages, like nobody that can see their handi is higher than the average poster wants to fess up!    

Avid posters, avid golfers, and reluctantly aging fat guys hate to admit they are like about 11.6 index, and there must be something wrong with the computations, because they rarely play to their handicap, it seems  

[Rick Shefchik]

Avid, 4.8.

My experience is that I'm a 9, at best, on any course I'm not intimately familiar with.

[K. Krahenbuhl]

Avid, 8.4

[Kevin Pallier]

None of this Index smindex stuff...

A weekend golfer with an AGU hancicap of 10.0

[Patrick Kiser]

If avid means more than once a week ... well then no for me.  If once a week pretty much every week then yes.

Here, let me sway your average and be one of the outliers.  I'm 17.8 right now.    Was a 10 last year but ... in So. FL.

Typical 90's shooter with the occasional 80's round.

Slainte!!

[Michael Robin]

Avid, 0.2 and not willing to give John Kirk 1 shot.

[Ben Stephens]

5.4 - would definitely be lower if I had the time to play more!

[Garland Bayley]

Avid, 0.2 and not willing to give John Kirk 1 shot.

But you could give Jordan Wall (1.3 according to ghin.com) 5 shots and come out fine.  

[G Jones]

6 handicap, but I never really play strokeplay anymore... matchplay is the way forward when you work and can't practise regularly... :-)

[Mike Sweeney]

9.5 and currently climbing  

[Jon Wiggett]

Scratch,

Super/shaper/Pro

[Anthony_Nysse]

.6

Asst Supt. Play about 60-70 rounds a year

[Jamey Bryan]

Instant index 7.8 (home cap 9)

Avid golfer

Jamey

[Rich Goodale]

Golf Writer, play in alternating bursts of activity and complete sloth.

In USGA/Pope of Slope terms, put me down for a 6 with a reverse bullet.....

In the UK, I'm 7.5 (real competitive handicap) and hopefully dangerous.........

[Andrew Mitchell]

Avid golfer

UK 8.2

[Brian_Ewen]

Ex-Avid Golfer

UK 8.4

[Matthew Rose]

Avid golfer, 4.1

[Tom Birkert]

Avid golfer, UK handicap of 4.8

[Bill_McBride]

10.7

[Doug Sobieski]

Can you give me an example of an avid golfer (30+ rounds/year) who doesn't have a handicap AND considers themselves connected to the game?

I'll raise my hand, although I may not have reached 30 rounds this year. I haven't had a handicap since I was in college, and I rarely play the same golf course more than twice in a year. However, I do track my scores myself and apply the formula so that I know approximately what I need to tell people. I normally play in one event per year, and the pro knows how I play. There was an exception this year and I played a 2nd event and I didn't want anybody questioning my handicap, so I said that I didn't need any shots (and ended up not needing any). So to answer the question posed by the thread......

Pseudo Golf Industry (still a member of an association, but no longer employed in the business)
Handicap - 0, so nobody can ever complain

[Ron Farris]

0.4
But reality tells me it is more like 4.0.  I haven't posted but 4 scores this year.  Most of my rounds are 9 holes before the mowers and cup cutter get to the greens.

[Adrian_Stiff]

7

[RJ_Daley]

I'm astounded at how many say they rarely play and have an index <10.   And the < 5 indexes and < 10 rounds a year are killing me.  

How you do dat?

[Brian Phillips]

Architect

Officially a crap 9 but really going on about a crap 18

[astavrides]

Other Golfer

Index 1.8

...and found out last year it snows in Denver.

That heaping line of crap about year round play still gets to me.

agreed, but I had a 10 month season (i'll play as long as the courses are open) both years I've been here, which could be worse (could be better).  speaking of which, i better play today, because they are saying it may snow here tomorrow.