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Re: Scores from practice rounds listed but not counted in the average.

• G0LD 358 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 6:37 AM

  As it stands, the scores from practice rounds are neither listed nor counted in determining the average. While it makes sense that they should not effect this average, I feel that listing them with a special recognizable sign (like the letter p at the beginning of the line) would add purpose to them and depth to the game. For example, there are times when one may want to play a round from other tees than one's tier for the sake of variety or to explore a higher tier's playing condition, and see how one fares. Keeping the score from such a round in the way above-described would make it real and more interesting or attractive than a vague unrecorded memory. Again, there is no question that a practice round should not effect the average, however listed it would be.

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 6:58 AM

  When I did competitive ready go's, I would use practice rounds for wind/green conditions. Keeping notes on aims, play, and such helped me a lot. I always recommend to any player to keep notes. Not only it helps you memorize it but many greens have peculiar spots and sometimes are hard to read or even play opposite of read. So, only by keeping notes, one will know how/where to aim:)

  -wgticon

• G0LD 358 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 8:38 AM

  Good suggestion for players who are serious about the game, but unfortunately off target, given the exact nature of my plea to keep a record of practice scores. For details, please refer to my initial post.

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 11:32 AM

  I understood your post but I don't see the point. Lets say you shoot 60 at some conditions, how would it matter to you since obviously you will not get away anything from it except for satisfaction?

• gleno75 17 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 11:41 AM

  WGTicon:

  I understood your post but I don't see the point. Lets say you shoot 60 at some conditions, how would it matter to you since obviously you will not get away anything from it except for satisfaction?

  I agree.....practice round's are what they are...If you start logging them you will only have people shooting from easy tee's,easy pin's and no wind..and bragging about it lol

• G0LD 358 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 3:46 PM

  The point is that it makes the rounds played in different tier conditions -- for the sheer fun of it or the sake of variety -- all the more real and purposeful as we keep a record of their scores, even if those scores do not effect the average. If you do not see the value of my suggestion, then you obviously do not fancy veering off the track of your tier to enjoy the game at other levels, which offer different perspectives of great scenic appeal, not to mention different challenges.

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 4:31 PM

  G0LD:

  The point is that it makes the rounds played in different tier conditions -- for the sheer fun of it or the sake of variety -- all the more real and purposeful as we keep a record of their scores, even if those scores do not effect the average. If you do see the value of my suggestion, then you obviously do not fancy veering off the track of your tier to enjoy the game at other levels, which offer different perspectives of great scenic appeal, not to mention different challenges.

  Sure I do. Now that I have less time to play it's one thing but in past I was know to play 15 sec shots, punch only shots, and such. All often were done in random tees/winds.

  My point is same though, why does the score matter if nothing else is saved>? If it's for your own sake, keep an excel file. I know someone who picks an excel file for anything he does.

  I don't disgaree with you, I just don't see it bringing alot of value

  -wgticon

• G0LD 358 Posts

  Sat, Dec 4 2010 6:57 PM

  To have no record of a practice fun round in WGT feels as though it was never played and deprives a player of a certain feeling of accomplishment.