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Re: Scoring Average

• Tedster64 63 Posts

  Sun, Aug 17 2014 12:56 PM

  Play a round on Best of Par 3's and it DOES NOT count against your scoring average.  Play a round on Best of Par 5's and it DOES NOT count against your scoring average.  Play a round on Best of Par 4's and it DOES count against your scoring average.

  WGT said the Best of Par 4 is Par 36 so it DOES count.  I say "A round of golf that should count against your scoring average should be 9 or 18 holes that consist of a combination of Par 3's, Par 4's and Par 5's  just like a true round of golf."  No other rounds should count toward your scoring average.

• keidan 311 Posts

  Sun, Aug 17 2014 9:54 PM

  Playing this course might bias towards increasing a players average with lack of more birdie opportunities from par 3 and par 5 holes... I don't know.  Or the opposite. But why deny others a chance at this great course and have it count for them?

  "Best of hardest holes" might not be considered realistic either for a true calculation of a player's average if holes were chosen statistically difficult from lots of past performances.  So from a pure golf point of view this would also bias a player's average and should be tossed?

  Extreme golf purists would welcome your request and vote to throw out Best of hardest holes and also ask that only single play stroke rounds with uneven lies be counted towards a players average.  Anything else is not really a true round of golf.

  It just seems that this approach would remove more fun from the game rather than add to it.

  -Keith

• alosso 21,092 Posts

  Mon, Aug 18 2014 8:13 AM

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