Paige Spiranac doesn’t mind saying what she thinks. It is an important part of her business. One of her most recent comments shows that she knows a lot about golf and what it’s like to play professionally. She sent out a tweet with a picture that was based on a tweet from Lou Stagner, a golf stats expert, about Tiger Wood’s handicap when he was at his best.
In 2008, Woods’s handicap was +9.4, and when he was on tour, it was around +11 or +12, which is crazy. During that time in his career, not many people were able to beat him. Spiranac saw Stagner’s tweet and told her 879,3k followers that they aren’t nearly as good as they think they are.
If a golfer who has never made a mistake wants to play Woods, it would take at least four strokes per side. She’s making fun of scratch players who think they can play on the PGA Tour. Being a scratch golfer isn’t enough to make it on Tour, though.
The golfers on the PGA Tour are not scratch golfers. Most golfers on the PGA Tour don’t keep a handicap because the handicap system is made for people who are just starting out. At Whisper Rock in Arizona, Martin Kaymer and Paul Casey do, but most don’t because they don’t always turn in their scores, according to GolfMonthly.
This system lets amateur players fight against each other on a level playing field. Stagner says that PGA Tour players’ average handicap in 2020, if they kept one, would be +5.4.
Even the best players in the world are only human, and there are days when they only get an 80. But those bad days don’t happen very often. Spiranac is honest with the many people who write and say they could even beat a PGA Tour player.
