This is the issue I find at Dunbar, I play with my mate most Sundays, we are both off 5 and reasonably long hitters, we generally just play off the yellows, almost always behind folk (who tbh given their standard of play should be off the yellows) playing off the whites, they would have a much more enjoyable game off the yellows but you get the impression that it's almost not manly to play off the forward tees
This is not a fact, but a perception.
It doesn't require perception; it's in the rule book.
What? It is in the rule book that everyone must take the view that the nett double bogey limit and adjusted gross score is based on stableford.
Nothing remotely close to that has ever been said. End.
Thank you.
To be continued...Doesn't Stableford effectively adjust terrible holes to a maximum of nett double bogey? Same as Adjusted Gross Score in handicapping. They do the same thing.Thank you.
I shall continue to have the perception that the net double bogey limit and adjusted gross score need not be linked in any way to stableford.
Yes.
Are they rated for both genders?
Yeah but the par is out there in front of you as you play. The differential, I have no idea what that was until I've finished playing and it's on my record which tells you. ??
For me, my golf score is my total number of shots for 18 holes.Yeah but the par is out there in front of you as you play. The differential, I have no idea what that was until I've finished playing and it's on my record which tells you. ??
That is fair enough. Although, I'd hazard a guess, most golfers probably are not overly interested in creating little charts. They may just about learn how to score in Stableford (although I know some who even struggle with that a little)
These days for stableford comps, as for medals, I tend to simply record my shots taken and don’t note my Stableford points as I go round. After 9 and 18 I’ll check with my marker my total gross, if we don’t match we check gross for each hole. I’ll often just let the system work out my points after entering my score electronically for WHS unless my Stableford total is required and I’m not entering score for WHS.
Yes I am wrong. I've checked. Problem is, with my thinking, is that I'm playing the whites and then having to knock off a percentage that puts me back to almost my handicap anyway. Ooooo me head hurts.
I think you live in cloud cuckoo land sometimes - I can well imagine people creating little charts of score differentials, yeah.
People think in Stableford points because it's easier to track how you're doing one hole at a time. i.e. 2 points and you're on track, 3 points and you're one ahead etc. No different to how a PGA leaderboard shows that so-and-so is 5 under par for so many holes, it's just a quick indicator.
I think you live in cloud cuckoo land sometimes - I can well imagine people creating little charts of score differentials, yeah.
Don't know if it's just me but I don't add my gross score up as I go along - don't have enough fingers and toes for that! I just know if I've got mostly '2s & 3s' in Stableford terms I'm doing well, if it's more '1s & 2s' then I'm not doing so well. The only change I probably will have to make to my thinking is to start remembering that 36 points off the yellows won't be good enough for handicap purposes, I'll need 39 points or something, whereas off the whites it's probably 37 or 38 points roughly. I can think of that way but there's zero chance I'm going to start thinking about what differential I'm on when I'm half-way round.
