Who has the best amateur golfers out of America, the UK and Australia as average handicaps are revealed

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Amateur golfers the world over are on a constant quest to lower their handicaps.

Less than two per cent of amateur golfers reach the promised land of scratch or lower while only 10% of all golfers worldwide manage to reach single digits.

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We all watch the best players in the world make the game look ridiculously easy throughout the year on our TV screens.

However, as we all know, golf is one of the most difficult sports on the planet to master, if not the most difficult.

So, let’s take a look now at the average handicaps for male golfers in the three biggest golfing hotbeds worldwide.

Average handicaps in America, the UK and Australia revealed

If you are an amateur golfer looking to improve, the best advice is to keep everything as simple as possible.

The main problem with amateur golfers is that the majority of them attempt shots which they simply aren’t capable of and, as a result, they compound their mistakes.

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At the same time, though, it is those ‘one in a hundred’ shots we pull off that keep us coming back for more.

Our wonderful game is an incredibly frustrating one, but a brilliantly addictive one all the same.

There are around 68 million golfers who play the game worldwide, and here are the average handicaps of the top three golfing nations on the planet:

Now, let’s delve into why that could possibly be…

Why do the USA has lower average handicaps than the UK and Australia?

Traditionally, golf courses in the United Kingdom and Australia are more intricately designed, especially links layouts and those on the sandbelt.

While there are plenty of hazards on US courses, the vast majority of them have soft and wide fairways.

Balls pretty much stop where they land in the US, especially in warmer climates in states like Florida, California, Georgia and all of the south east really.

The same goes for the courses in the north east when temperatures plummet and the ground becomes softer.

However, over in the UK and Australia, there is plenty of run-out on most tee shots, with the fairways mostly funneled towards all of the trouble.

In addition to that, UK and Australian courses are far more open to the elements than those in the United States, in general at least.

None of this is scientific evidence, but it does at least offer a couple of potential explanations as to why the average American amateur golfer is better than their counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia.