Average Putts Per Round | Golf Monthly

The average number of putts per round doesn't really say much about your putting.

It really depends on how many greens you hit and how long your putts are...

Let's say you play two rounds and have 35 putts each time. But in one round, you hit 8 greens in regulation, in the other just 3.

All else being equal, your score in the first round will be 5 shots better than the second one. The difference may as well be in your putting as in your chipping, so you don't get clear pointers what to work on.

That being said, 39 putts including a chip in is really a lot. Your first goal could be to bring your average number of putts per hole down to no more than 2, so no more than 36 putts per round.

I haven't seen you putt, but I think it's safe to say that to achieve that, you need to lower the number of three putts and get up and down more often.
Three areas to work on could be:

- lag putting, to leave you shorter second putts
- chipping, to get the ball closer to the hole from off the green
- shorter putts from 3 to 10 feet to make more putts even if your first putt or chip weren't good