On a Day by Day basis which would you rather play?

[Voyager EMH]

So there we have it.
95 votes cast and it is roughly 59%/41% in favour of stableford.

Your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes, but most people prefer to play a different type of golf game where some bad shots might not be counted and the best net score might not be the winner.

I am on the losing side.

 

[hambugerpete]

So there we have it.
95 votes cast and it is roughly 59%/41% in favour of stableford.

Your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes, but most people prefer to play a different type of golf game where some bad shots might not be counted and the best net score might not be the winner.

I am on the losing side.

 

[Oddsocks]

Opted with stablefords because the world is OBSESSED with the pace of play and stablefords are quicker generally.

 

[Beezerk]

Opted with stablefords because the world is OBSESSED with the pace of play and stablefords are quicker generally.

Oh dear, gonna be 20 pages arguing the toss over this now

 

[Oddsocks]

I was going to add “ playing compulsory 2 ft gimmies to speed up the game further “ but wasn’t sure the GM Server and mod team could cope.

 

[LincolnShep]

So there we have it.
95 votes cast and it is roughly 59%/41% in favour of stableford.

Your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes, but most people prefer to play a different type of golf game where some bad shots might not be counted and the best net score might not be the winner.

I am on the losing side.

That's only one kind of golf score. A 2&1 win is a golf score but it says nothing about how many strokes either player took; or even who had the fewer strokes. The poll result just demonstrates that 59% of the sample prefer one scoring method over another.

 

[bobmac]

Maybe another poll....Medal V Matchplay?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Maybe another poll....Medal V Matchplay?

Start one up. Everyone loves a poll

(Although be ready for some people to answer Stableford, 4BBB etc )

 

[Voyager EMH]

That's only one kind of golf score. A 2&1 win is a golf score but it says nothing about how many strokes either player took; or even who had the fewer strokes. The poll result just demonstrates that 59% of the sample prefer one scoring method over another.

That is why I did not make matchplay any part of my post, but stuck to the 2 formats that the title of this thread asked us to do.

 

[LincolnShep]

That is why I did not make matchplay any part of my post, but stuck to the 2 formats that the title of this thread asked us to do.

In the part of your comment that I highlighted ("your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes"), you appeared to be suggesting that counting strokes as a means of determining the winner has some kind of seniority over all other forms. Counting strokes is not your golf score, it's only your golf score under certain formats. Hitting a ball is golf. Determining the winner of a competition requires a format to be overlaid, and those formats are myriad.

 

[Orikoru]

In the part of your comment that I highlighted ("your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes"), you appeared to be suggesting that counting strokes as a means of determining the winner has some kind of seniority over all other forms. Counting strokes is not your golf score, it's only your golf score under certain formats. Hitting a ball is golf. Determining the winner of a competition requires a format to be overlaid, and those formats are myriad.

Indeed. A bit like comparing rugby league and union. It's the same game, just different scoring.

 

[SteveW86]

Indeed. A bit like comparing rugby league and union. It's the same game, just different scoring.

My understanding is that rugby union and league are very much different games.

 

[Imurg]

My understanding is that rugby union and league are very much different games.

Oh I got soundly berated on here for suggesting that they were broadly similar.......

 

[SteveW86]

Oh I got soundly berated on here for suggesting that they were broadly similar.......

rightly so

I'm expecting Cam along anytime soon to put things right

 

[Imurg]

rightly so

I'm expecting Cam along anytime soon to put things right

To be fair, they are " broadly" similar.....they share many rules, the scoring methods, although the number of points varies.....

 

[Orikoru]

My understanding is that rugby union and league are very much different games.

They're obviously not though are they. A few different rules but clearly the object is the same.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

To be fair, they are " broadly" similar.....they share many rules, the scoring methods, although the number of points varies.....

The same but different

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

So there we have it.
95 votes cast and it is roughly 59%/41% in favour of stableford.

Your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes, but most people prefer to play a different type of golf game where some bad shots might not be counted and the best net score might not be the winner.

I am on the losing side.

Ah but you see…that (stableford) way I can be in denial about my bad stuff and pretend to be a better all round golfer than I actually am…hubris and feeding my ego…

Like you I’d rather just be honest about my game and not pretend otherwise to others.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

In the part of your comment that I highlighted ("your golf score is your total strokes for 18 holes"), you appeared to be suggesting that counting strokes as a means of determining the winner has some kind of seniority over all other forms. Counting strokes is not your golf score, it's only your golf score under certain formats. Hitting a ball is golf. Determining the winner of a competition requires a format to be overlaid, and those formats are myriad.

The primary objective of golf is, and always has been, to take the fewest number of strokes to get the ball round a course. That different formats of play may tweak, or indeed deviate from, that objective…it remains the primary objective for the game.

And if I had to choose, which thankfully I don’t, I would choose to play towards that objective…it’s what golf is actually about.

 

[bobmac]

The primary objective of golf is, and always has been, to take the fewest number of strokes to get the ball round a course. That different formats of play may tweak, or indeed deviate from, that objective…it remains the primary objective for the game.

Whereas the original format in golf was match play