According to the National Golf Foundation (2004) for all the golfers in the world, the averages for 18 hole scoring breaks down as such;

For men, their average score is 95. For women, their average score is 106.

Players whos break 80 on a consistant basis comprise the top 8% of the world's golfers. You spend alot of time on your game.

Players who score between 80-89 comprise another 20% of the world's better golfers. Play, practice on a consistant basis.

Those who score between 90-99 are in the 31% bracket, and are average. You have potential.

If you are scoring between 100-119 you make up another 30%, and are below average. You probably play just for the fun of it.

Scoring 120+ for 18 holes? You are in the bottom 11%, and probably only play a very few times a year, with no practice what so ever.

So there you have it. Now you know where you stand in the world with regards to your own golf .

Me, I  am in the upper 20%, who can some times play with some of those  8% on a really good day.  As for professionals, and scratch players, those folks comprise the 1%-2% of the worlds's best golfers.

FHs

MEMBERS COMMENTS VIEWING 1 - 2 OUT OF 2 COMMENTS From: FrogHairs 01/21/2008 12:15:45 Those players in the top 1%-2% have nothing to fear from me, and my golf bag. A couple of more stats I have found; Tiger Woods has avaerage just under 69 strokes per round since he has turned pro. A good golfer who averages 82 shots per round is less than 1 one stroke (.72) worse than Tiger, per hole. So, just how tough is golf for one to make up that .72 strokes per hole? Another stat as reported by TGC is that the avaerage golfer walks 900 miles a year. On the average, golfers consume 22 gallons of alcohol during a year. This mean that these average golfers get about 41 miles per gallon....lol,  FHs   From: Businessgolf 01/18/2008 05:30:40 Yaw, those 1% of the golfers who play at a PROs and Scratch level represent 500,000 golfers...that makes for one hell of a golf tournament, wouldn't.