So who said counting your score is a bad move????

[haplesshacker]

Lovely day to be out. However, I followed some advice on here and thought, I'll give that a go. Oops. Shouldn't of!!

(That being, don't keep track of your score)

Par Score
4 5
3 5
4 NR OOB no chance of any points
4 6
5 6
3 5
4 6
3 3
4 5
34 41

5 6
4 7
3 3
5 5
3 4
4 8
4 NR OOB no chance of any points
3 2
4 5
35 35

69 76 plus two NR's

All gross scores. 37 points on SF. with two NRs and an 8. The NR's were done just to keep the pace of play going.


What's the point in all this I hear you ask?

I wasn't keeping count of my score. I'd keep score for each hole, but did not total it up at all. Had I of done I wouldn't have NR'd on the two holes. Shame really as it would have been a good card even with three off the tee on the NRs.

Moral of the story, (well this time anyway!).

Keep track of my score.
Don't assume that you're having a bad day on the course.
Don't pick up if in with a shout, see point one.
Enter the comps, as this would have been a h'cap reducing card. And possibly a division winning score. Nay, the winning score in all.
Potentially a sub 90 was possible despite the three off the tee on two holes. Potential PB!

All in all, I'm disappointed in myself more than anything.
Oh. I had a few 'sha..ks' today as well!! That's why I thought I was doing badly!

Oh well.

 

[Putting_Green_Pro]

I had a good day too.

par score
3 3
5 6
3 4
4 5
4 4
5 6
4 5
4 5
3 3
35 41

4 4
4 4
4 4
5 7
4 4
4 4
3 4
5 5
5 5
38 41

sf score 43

 

[beggsy]

you will get cut a minimum 0.1 per 1 stroke under handicap which will be -0.7

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Well done and good to see some good scoring apart from the OB's. What happened there?

Graham - tried to PM you with a potential order but couldn't send it - is your mailbox full?

 

[haplesshacker]

I'll clear some of the mailbox out.

 

[jammydodger]

5 6
4 7
3 3
5 5
3 4
4 8
4 NR OOB no chance of any points
3 2
4 5
35 <u>35</u>

Well done Hapless but I think you need to check your adding up , these come to 40 not 35

 

[haplesshacker]

Doh!!

You are of course right. Well done, you've won the prize for my new occasional competition.

Someone please delete this thread to spare me.

 

[RGDave]

Someone please delete this thread to spare me.

Not until someone explains what it's all about.

 

[JustOne]

5 6
4 7
3 3
5 5
3 4
4 8
4 NR OOB no chance of any points
3 2
4 5
35 <u>35</u>

Well done Hapless but I think you need to check your adding up , these come to 40 not 35

I was drawn straight to that too, I thought "Crikey, level par with an 8 and a 7 on there!"

At least you can look forward to getting DQ'd for marking an incorrect card - which is better than nothing I 'spose

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I'd find it impossible to not know if I was on for a good round even if I wasn't specifically counting. I'd know if I was making more pars than anything else and hadn't had any disasters or a load of doubles I was looking good for a cut. I'd love to now how people do it as I'd like to try it but just don't know how. The only way I could see is not writing down your own score but then how do you know if whoever is marking your card has got it right?

 

[Imurg]

I'm in the same boat. Try as I might I know - just know - when its going well. I suppose if you don't add up then you don't know how good its going to be....

 

[Parmo]

Par Score
4 6
5 7
3 3
4 5
4 5
4 4
3 3
4 5
4 5

4 5
5 8
3 4
4 N/R provo lost to the golfing gods.. Started playing match play with playing partner as we had given up.

 

[RGDave]

Someone please delete this thread to spare me.

Not until someone explains what it's all about.

No, really. Can someone tell me what this thread is all about!

 

[haplesshacker]

Someone please delete this thread to spare me.

Not until someone explains what it's all about.

No, really. Can someone tell me what this thread is all about!

Put simply Dave

I was deliberately not totaling up my score as I went around the track. This was in an effort to relieve some of the final hole pressures.

Because of this, I picked up on two holes because there was no chance of any SF points on that hole, and to keep the pace of play up. As a result I effectively blew the whole round away by doing so. New PB etc.

Regardless of my adding up, (I had drank most of a bottle of wine by the time I came to add it up!), the point was that don't assume that you're having a bad / average round if you don't know your score!

I hope that makes some sense.

 

[BrianDamage]

Surely the solution is just not to pick up!

 

[RGDave]

Put simply Dave

I was deliberately not totaling up my score as I went around the track. This was in an effort to relieve some of the final hole pressures.

Because of this, I picked up on two holes because there was no chance of any SF points on that hole, and to keep the pace of play up. As a result I effectively blew the whole round away by doing so. New PB etc.

Regardless of my adding up, (I had drank most of a bottle of wine by the time I came to add it up!), the point was that don't assume that you're having a bad / average round if you don't know your score!

I hope that makes some sense.

Cheers...now I get it. Sorry for being so grumpy, that's what being stuck at home with a sprained ankle does for you.
(It hurts, and I'm not allowed to walk for at least a week - goodness knows when I'll play golf again )

It's an interesting psychological conundrum. I tend to only keep a vague idea of where I am, not exact points or +/- nett par. I like to finish every hole, but that's an easy thing to do if I'm playing up to my normal steady game.

All my best scores have been made (unsurprisingly) in bounce games. I guess if I was seriously in contention for a PB in a club comp, I'd probably not want to know the exact situation t.b.h. Last Thursday I found myself 4 over on the 13th tee.....I'd rather have not known, but it was inevitable as I "aim" for 3 pars per 9 holes if I've had no doubles, which I knew I was doing better than.

 

[haplesshacker]

Surely the solution is just not to pick up!

Precisely. However, I was the high h'capper in a fourball in GMs pace of play experiment at Crowborough a year and a half ago. Where-by I became very aware that by not picking up really effected the pace of play. Call me ultra sensitive to it now, but it did have an effect.

I tend to mark my progression in this game by SF and gross scores. I'm just annoyed at myself for letting the pace of play (in fact we were being held up anyway), dictate my actions. But I didn't want the group behind to think that it was us, or more to the point, me.

 

[Region3]

I don't understand why you say 3 off the tee is impossible to score points?

If you get a shot then a par (ignoring the OOB) gets you a point, and if you don't get a shot then presumably it has birdie possibilities also for a point.

 

[haplesshacker]

As an example. Three off the tee on a par four with one shot stroke allowance. Which means a gross six to get one point. I'd have to effectively gross birdie the hole, ie do it in three to get a point.

At the time it seemed highly unlikely. So I tend to forget the hole, move on and start afresh on the next hole.

Okay. A birdie is not impossible, but unlikely in this instance. It's my own phycology (sp?) at fault. And I guess that was the whole point of the thread. Strangely enough the 'mind' section of this months mag does, in part, explain about my (perhaps) overly high expectations of myself. That's the problem when you come from being successful in one sport and then move onto another. As I have done with golf.

 

[RGDave]

As an example. Three off the tee on a par four with one shot stroke allowance. Which means a gross six to get one point. I'd have to effectively gross birdie the hole, ie do it in three to get a point.

I'm discombobulated. 3 off the tee, 4 onto the green, two putts for a 6.
6 nett 5 for 1 point.

It ain't over 'till it's over.