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Keeping Your Golf Score
Keeping score during a round of golf
is crucial if you ever want to better your game. Although
knowing you just shot a 120 is not critical to developing
a better game, having a consistent scorecard will allow
you to receive a handicap from the PGA.
Once you have a handicap you can now compete with every
other golfer with a handicap or without. This next section
will help you learn how to keep score and read a scorecard
so that you can receive a handicap from the PGA.
The following scorecard was completed by three golfers.
Shawn, Sam and Kevin played a round at Golf Course and
posted their scores on this card. Sam is a weekend golfer
and shoots in the high 110's. Kevin is a scratch golfer
which means he consistently shoots par which is 36 for
the front nine. Shawn is better than scratch and today
has shot a remarkable 5 under par on the front nine
today.
The first line of the scorecard reads HOLE.
This is the number of the hole to be played. Next line
reads BLUE. This is the distance to the green
measured in "yards" from the blue tee box
(pros). The next line is WHITE and this is the
distance from the white tee box (mens) and GOLD
for senior players.
The line PAR is the recommended amount of strokes
to complete a hole. The line MENS HANDICAP refers
to the difficulty level of the hole for male players.
The first hole on this nine is the 3rd most difficult
hole on the course.
The bottom section is for female players and
is read just like the men's section from above. RED
is the distance PAR is the number of strokes to finish
a hole and HANDICAP is the difficulty level of the hole
in play.
Notice the red circles around Shawn's scores.
This is done to signify a player has taken less than
the recommended amount of stokes. The following terminology
refers to the naming convention used for counting shots:
- Par - A par 4 hole is completed in 4 strokes.
- Birdie - A par 4 hole is completed in 3 strokes.
- Eagle - A par 4 hole is completed in 2 strokes.
- Double Eagle - A par four hole is completed
in 1 stroke.
These names will also apply to Par 5 holes. Simply
put it is the completion of a hole in LESS than PAR
for that hole.
A Hole in One on a Par 3 is also called an Eagle.
A hole in one on a Par 4 is a Double Eagle or finishing
a Par 5 in 2 strokes.
In conclusion, make sure to keep accurate score
and save your scorecards. Once you have enough to saved
submit them to a handicapping company so you can acquire
your very own PGA handicap.
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