Gross or nett

How do you judge your round?

  • Gross

    Votes: 68 88.3%
  • Nett

    Votes: 9 11.7%

  • Total voters
    77
Gross.

You could score 40pts in stableford with a blob - that to me is 17 good holes and 1 bad one. Its not a full round of good golf.
 
How I play to CSS is the one I am most interested in. unless its a Stableford, and on Saturday my mind will be firmly set on my net score.
 
Not for me it's not. For the majority of us it's a handicap game. Daft though it might seem - gross scores set my goals over a period - net scores tell me how well I'm faring towards achieving my goal on a round-by-round basis.

At our place par is 70 as is SSS. If I shoot 75 off of 7 , I know I've done alright, why do I need Nett to tell me how I'm doing?
 
I look at my Stableford score because my main goal is to get a handicap cut and that is the one that tells me if I'm going to do it.

(Maybe this is one of the ways in which I'm putting too much pressure on myself in comps.)
 
where as i like , scratch that LOVE it when i win the gross , 2 things matter to me at the end mate , nett score & css , i might sound like a (insert a smiffy word) saying that but its true , if i have a shocker round , neither gross or nett bother me if i play well its about what i shot against css
 
At our place par is 70 as is SSS. If I shoot 75 off of 7 , I know I've done alright, why do I need Nett to tell me how I'm doing?

Gross score is obviously the most important measure of my ability in the long run - I want to get back to regularly knocking it around in about 80 (8 over).

But I don't want to measure myself against that target every round at the moment as I can't do it at the moment. measuring against Nett score is ore likely to keep me in more positive mindset through any one round. I don't want to be measuring myself against par on every hole with my final gross score in mind. I want to accept that when I drop a shot against par but a get a shot through SI then that's OK - and when I par and get a shot - that's good. And that is measuring myself against Nett.
 
Gross score is obviously the most important measure of my ability in the long run - I want to get back to regularly knocking it around in about 80 (8 over).

But I don't want to measure myself against that target every round at the moment as I can't do it at the moment. measuring against Nett score is ore likely to keep me in more positive mindset through any one round. I don't want to be measuring myself against par on every hole with my final gross score in mind. I want to accept that when I drop a shot against par but a get a shot through SI then that's OK - and when I par and get a shot - that's good. And that is measuring myself against Nett.

Fair enough, I guess it's just different ways of thinking about the same thing
 
Fair enough, I guess it's just different ways of thinking about the same thing

Agreed - why I said in my original post that it might seem a bit daft :)

I've just in the last couple of weeks come down 2 shots (in one go) from 12 to 10. So I am focussing on playing to 10 - not 8. If I can get myself playing to 10 regularly then I will have a playing chance of getting to 9. Then in time to 8. But one step at a time.
 
I judge rounds on

enjoyment and success (equally)

Sometimes I'm even fortunate enough to have both from one round!

I judge players golfing capability on their handicap - not what they shoot, or claim to shoot, gross or net, against par or SSS, yesterday, last week or last year.
 
Depends on the format of the day! As I only play a couple of gross comps per year I'm thinking of my nett score most of the time then stableford score next often!
 
Agreed - why I said in my original post that it might seem a bit daft :)

I've just in the last couple of weeks come down 2 shots (in one go) from 12 to 10. So I am focussing on playing to 10 - not 8. If I can get myself playing to 10 regularly then I will have a playing chance of getting to 9. Then in time to 8. But one step at a time.

Interesting, that. I went from 12 to 10 in one go too but I never tried to play to my new handicap. I always play against par. Seems to be working ok, as I got down to 9 shortly after, albeit after a couple of 0.1s.

Why take one step when you can take two?
 
Gross. I'm just trying to get the ball in the hole as quick as possible, the final outcome and subsequent net result is then inevitable.
 
Gross is the only score that should be said first when asked. You couldn't get a h/cap without submitting gross scores first :rolleyes:

When anyone tells me they shot X stableford points or a nett score first it means nothing to me until they say their gross score.

In my opinion you can't have a gross score if you blob at any hole, you NR'd! It's ok if you took 103 strokes, you now have a goal and target to improve on :thup::thup:
 
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