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The Basics of Scoring in Golf
Posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

In most sports, a high score is wanted. In golf it’s quite the opposite. The lower the score the better, in golf every time you whack the golf ball, it’s counted as a stroke. The aim is to get the ball in to the hole in as few strokes as possible. Every stroke is counted. When you get the ball into the hole you count how many strokes it took to get it in there. You keep moving on to the next hole and so on, continuously keeping track of your strokes.

Your game or round ends when you have gotten the ball into the final hole. You count up all of your strokes from beginning to end and you get your golf score. To put it in simpler words, the score is how much you stroked or whacked the ball.

A more sophisticated computing of the score is by using the hole’s given par. Par is the number of strokes that the player should need to finish the hole they are playing. Say for example if the par for a hole is 3 and you make it in 5 strokes, your score is 2 over.

If you stroke less than the number of the hole’s par then the score would be lower. Like if the par for the hole is 4 and you only stoked 2, the score for that hole is 2 under. If the courses par is 70 and you finish with a 67 then your total score would be 3 under.

The player’s handicap shows their ability not their average score. Handicaps vary on the player’s ongoing form; they can be increasing or decreasing the player’s score throughout their golfing lifetime.

It isn’t that complicated once you get in the swing of it!

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