Earlier this year we posted an article that claims men have better short games than women. (ReadItHere) The beauty of oobgolf is that we have over 19000 rounds of data to see if this is true.

Putting

Male putts per round: 34.87
Female putts per round: 36.63

Males are better at putting. It doesn't seem like there would be a good reason that they are but this is what the data shows.

Of course it's important to realize this is just putts per round, so you could argue that women hit more greens and have longer putts while males have more chips and pitches with more one putts.

Which leads us to...

Greens In Regulation

male gir:
par 3: 28.8%
par 4: 25.8%
par 5: 36.5%
total: 28.6%

female:
par 3: 21.7%
par 4: 8.7%
par 5: 9.1%
total: 11.9%

Wow! Really not even close.

Fairways

Female fairways: 63.1%
Male fairways: 48.4%

As a last bit of data- we thought we'd throw in Fairway %. Interestingly enough, it seems men try to be more macho off the tee and go for the longer-is-better tee shot and forgo hitting fairways.

Conclusion

So does this mean males have better short games than females? Maybe, but not for sure. While the stats from our data show that men may be better, just remember what Mark Twain popularized, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Completely unrelated... it's an easy quote to transition to golf. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and the kind of lies that require the Tree Surgeon Golf Club.