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25 articles tagged “scoring”.
As golfers get older, distance usually falls, but scoring doesn't have to. The short game needs touch, judgement and experience rather than strength, and senior golfers often have all three. Many…
Modified Stableford is a variation of Stableford scoring that rewards birdies and eagles more heavily and penalises bogeys and worse. It encourages aggressive, attacking golf and has been used in…
Golf has three main levels of penalty: one stroke, the general penalty (two strokes in stroke play or loss of the hole in match play) and disqualification. Knowing which applies in common situations…
Every golfer faces decisions: go for the green over water or lay up? Cut the corner or play safe? Aim at the flag or the middle of the green? Good decisions save more shots than most swing changes…
When two or more golfers finish level at the top of a leaderboard, something has to separate them. Professional tournaments usually use playoffs, either sudden death or over several holes. Match play…
"What's a good score?" is one of the most common questions in golf. The honest answer is that it depends on your experience, the course and the tees you play. A score of 100 might be a triumph for a…
Every golfer has bad holes. A drive out of bounds, a duffed chip, a three-putt, and suddenly a promising round is in trouble. What separates good scorers from the rest is not avoiding bad holes, but…
Stableford is one of the most popular scoring formats in golf, especially at clubs, societies and golf days. Instead of counting every stroke, you score points on each hole based on your net score. A…
A golf scorecard can look confusing at first: rows of numbers, columns for different tees, stroke indexes and boxes for signatures. In a casual round, you can simply write down your scores. But in a…
Every hole on the course is a puzzle, and par 3s, par 4s and par 5s each ask different questions. On a par 3, you get one swing to find the green. On a par 4, the tee shot sets up everything. On a…
Breaking 80 is a milestone that marks the move from a good club golfer to a really good one. It usually means playing to a single-figure handicap on a typical par-72 course. It does not require…
Golf often looks like a power game. Long drives get the attention, and modern golf has rewarded distance. But scores are made by the total number of strokes, not the length of your drives. Shorter…
