[jlab-9hgl 00060] Re: 2010 Maximum scores you may record

[machie]

you should have your own golf sports column.


Mark M. Ito wrote:
> Leaguer's,
>
> How about this for a rule for next year?
>
>    Maximum score for a hole is twice par.
>
> Let's go through a few examples, assume the hole is par 3. That would 
> mean that the maximum score on the hole is 6. In each example, you do 
> something, you write down something on your card, and you get a score in 
> the official system.
>
> 1) You take five strokes, leaving your ball just on the lip of the cup. 
> You pick up. You write down 6. You score 6.
>
> 2) You take five strokes, leaving your ball just on the lip of the cup. 
> You walk up and tap it in. You write down X. You score 6.
>
> 3) You hit your tee shot into the water. It was a Pro V1. You walk to 
> the next tee box in disgust. You write down an expletive. You score 6.
>
> 4) You loose count and hit 7 strokes and then hole out on the 8th 
> stroke. You think really hard, then write down 9. You score 6.
>
> 5) You hit four strokes, and somehow have ended up behind the tee box 
> farther away than when you started. You pick up. You write down X. You 
> score 6.
>
> All of these are consistent with the rule that the maximum score is, you 
> guessed it, 6. Note that anything what you write down does not really 
> matter as long as it is not an outright lie/attempt to cheat. And 
> therein lies the beauty of this rule. To accomplish that it erases the 
> distinction between a "natural" six and a "pick-up" 6. But so what; it's 
> a lousy score and we are cutting things off. If those distinctions 
> matter so much, we should not have maximum scores, so we can distinguish 
> between natural 10's and natural 11's.
>
> Other examples resulting in scores _other_ than 6 on the same hole.
>
> 6) You hit your tee shot on the green and hole out in two putts. You 
> write down 3. You score 3 (this is also called par).
>
> 7) You hit your tee shot on the green and hole out in one putt. You 
> write down 2. You score 2 (this is also called a birdie).
>
> 8) You tee shot lands on the green and rolls into the hole. You write 
> down 1 and an appropriate comment. You score a 1 (this is also called a 
> hole-in-one).
>
> Any questions?
>
>    -- Mark
>
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