The Golf Stats You Need to Achieve in 2025

The new golf season is edging closer and when most of us set goals for the months ahead, the prospect of improving your game, shooting better scores and lowering your handicap will be a chief objective.

While we all have our day when things click and we post a better-than-average score, the only way to ensure more consistent improvement is by enhancing different parts of our game.

The Golfshake Score Tracker - used by thousands of keen golfers each year - is a handy resource for keeping track of your own statistics and to see where you're gaining and losing on the golf course.

Sharing the averages across different handicap categories, looking at everything from scoring, fairways hit, greens-in-regulation, putts-per-round and even how many pars and birdies you should be making, we can share below the targets you must have in order to reach the next level.

Additionally, it's also a useful tool for seeing how you compare with other golfers of different standards to see where exactly you need to most improve.

• Stats You Need - Handicaps 25-28
• Stats You Need - Handicaps 20-25
• Stats You Need - Handicaps 15-20
• Stats You Need - Handicaps 10-15
• Stats You Need - Handicaps 5-10
• Stats You Need - Handicaps 1-5

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Stats You Need - Handicaps 25-28

If you're someone who wants to break into the high 20s in terms of handicap, these are the numbers you should be looking to achieve this season.

• Score: 97.5
• Par 3 Avg: 4.40
• Par 4 Avg: 5.65
• Par 5 Avg: 6.75
• #No. Fairways-in-Regulation: 7.07
• #No. Greens-in-Regulation: 2.57
• Pars-Per-Round: 2.75
• Birdies-Per-Round: 0.37
• Putts: 36.08

Stats You Need - Handicaps 20-25

Taking that to the next stage, regularly shooting in the low 90s, these are the stats that are routinely required.

• Score: 93.5
• Par 3 Avg: 4.15
• Par 4 Avg: 5.38
• Par 5 Avg: 6.35
• #No. Fairways-in-Regulation: 7.86
• #No. Greens-in-Regulation: 3.12
• Pars-Per-Round: 3.69
• Birdies-Per-Round: 0.54
• Putts: 35.22

Stats You Need - Handicaps 15-20

Edging below 20 is a milestone for many golfers in terms of their handicap, as is regularly breaking 90, and the two go hand-in-hand as you can see below.

• Score: 88.5
• Par 3 Avg: 3.88
• Par 4 Avg: 5.07
• Par 5 Avg: 5.92
• #No. Fairways-in-Regulation: 8.61
• #No. Greens-in-Regulation: 4.38
• Pars-Per-Round: 5.04
• Birdies-Per-Round: 0.82
• Putts: 34.15

Stats You Need - Handicaps 10-15

Taking you closer to single figures, doing better than a bogey-per-hole, hitting more than half of fairways and a third of the greens in regulation is what you need to find yourself on the precipice of single figures.

• Score: 83.5
• Par 3 Avg: 3.72
• Par 4 Avg: 4.75
• Par 5 Avg: 5.62
• #No. Fairways-in-Regulation: 9.12
• #No. Greens-in-Regulation: 6.09
• Pars-Per-Round: 6.96
• Birdies-Per-Round: 1.26
• Putts: 33.08

Stats You Need - Handicaps 5-10

Is getting to a single-figure handicap one of your targets for this season? Here are the stats you need to be recording!

• Score: 79
• Par 3 Avg: 3.50
• Par 4 Avg: 4.50
• Par 5 Avg: 5.26
• #No. Fairways-in-Regulation: 10.30
• #No. Greens-in-Regulation: 7.96
• Pars-Per-Round: 8.78
• Birdies-Per-Round: 1.75
• Putts: 32.16

Stats You Need - Handicaps 1-5

For those golfers who already are single-figure players, taking your game to the brink of scratch is an appealing prospect, and this is the standard you have to reach consistently to achieve that milestone.

• Score: 74
• Par 3 Avg: 3.32
• Par 4 Avg: 4.20
• Par 5 Avg: 4.86
• #No. Fairways-in-Regulation: 12.82
• #No. Greens-in-Regulation: 10.84
• Pars-Per-Round: 10.87
• Birdies-Per-Round: 2.96
• Putts: 30.04

If you're setting targets for yourself in 2025 - keep track of them on Golfshake and see if you can take your game to the next level this season!

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