We decided to take a look at oobgolf user's handicap indexes by state. I'm not sure we can make any absolute conclusions about anything from that data except that it is interesting to look at. Oh- and that people from Rhode Island need to invite better golfers to the site... you're embarrassing yourselves.

Actually, there is a little more I can say. For instance, even though we have over 25k rounds of data we only have 2 users who have set their location to the state of Nevada. One of them is REALLY good. Most of you out there have not set, your location. I'd encourage you to go edit your profile and add more information for us.

To do that, Log In and go to your "My Game" page. On the left hand side bar you should see "Edit Profile" under Actions. Fill that out so we can make better data in the future. Thanks!

3.7   Nevada   9.2   South Carolina   9.6   Kansas   9.9   Georgia 11.4   West Virginia 12.9   Utah 13.4   Arizona 13.6   Iowa 13.7   Michigan 14.5   Louisiana 14.7   Ohio 14.7   Minnesota 15.8   Florida 16.1   Arkansas 16.1   Pennsylvania

16.3   Alabama 16.3   Wisconsin 16.4   Kentucky 17.3   Texas 17.3   Massachusetts 17.3   California 17.7   Illinois 17.7   Tennessee 17.8   Arizona 18.0   North Carolina 18.5   Nebraska 18.7   Indiana 18.8   Washington 18.8   New Jersey 18.8   Missouri

19.3   Delaware 19.5   New York 19.9   Connecticut 20.1   Maryland 20.5   Colorado 20.6   Virginia 21.8   Oregon 22.3   Hawaii 22.6   Washington, DC 23.5   Oklahoma 25.3   Mississippi 26.3   New Hampshire 29.0   Vermont 36.4   Rhode Island