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[sidewinding]

That's one of those tricks that isn't at all obvious, but once someone shows it to you you'll add golf scores that way the rest of your life.

ERic

I am a little slow. Can you please explain the trick?

 

[ERicJ]

P.S.- When I add up my score I do it in relation to a base of 3 on each hole to quickly get a total. But this has nothing to do with par; it's merely a scoring convenience. (Did I make that distinction clear enough? )

That's one of those tricks that isn't at all obvious, but once someone shows it to you you'll add golf scores that way the rest of your life.

I am a little slow. Can you please explain the trick?

As you read across the scorecard...

you think of each '3' as a zero off set and ignore those,
you think of each '4' as a +1 and add that,
you think of each '5' as a +2 and add that,
...
you think of each '2' as a -1 and subtract that,
you think of each '1' as a friggin' great shot, and subtract -2.

Then add the typically small delta value to a base value of 54.

It's based on the presumption that most of the hole scores will be '3' and you want to minimize the adding you need to do.

So if you scorecard looked like this:

3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 3

You'd add along the running total in your head, ignoring the 3's and say "+1", "+2", "+3", "+2". 54+2 = 56.

Some people count all the (+) numbers first and then go through again for all the (-) numbers.

Usually it's much faster than: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 19, 22....

You do have to remember to change the base value when playing non-18-hole courses. E.g. your base for a 21-hole course would be (54+9)=63.

ERic

 

[Cool Daddio]

i would prefer to have a score card and be able to see all of the pertinent data for the course just like a ball golfer. but not many of the courses by me have score cards available (to my knowledge).

I really like having a scorecard in my pocket as well so I made my own for the three courses I play regularly and turned the files over to one of the local disk sellers. Everyone is happy. There is a PDGA guide for setting pars if you play somewhere that they are not posted.

Being a bit obsessed I also used a google earth satellite photo and photoshop to create a course map for my home course for the newbies that come to our course.

 

[DWill]

I'm old school. I use par 3 for every hole, it's just easier mathematically for me to keep track of my score. At some courses, tee signs don't exist or post a par, so this way I just add my score based on par 54. If I shot plus 6, then I shot a 60, regardless if it's a par 54 or 66 course.

 

[Lewis]

Being a bit obsessed I also used a google earth satellite photo and photoshop to create a course map for my home course for the newbies that come to our course.

Glad I'm not the only one.

 

[ERicJ]

I really like having a scorecard in my pocket as well so I made my own for the three courses I play regularly and turned the files over to one of the local disk sellers. Everyone is happy. There is a PDGA guide for setting pars if you play somewhere that they are not posted.

Being a bit obsessed I also used a google earth satellite photo and photoshop to create a course map for my home course for the newbies that come to our course.

Which course did you map? I've done the same for many of the courses in Houston (the LINKS, Moffitt, FC Aquatic Ctr, Imperial Park, Mozola, MacGregor, TB Powell, TB Wilmont, Community Park, Nottingham, Pecan Grove, Burke Crenshaw, Cedar Brook, and Crosspoint) and a few out of town ones as well (Mulligan Springs, Hudson Springs, Pleasure Island, and Schaefer). I also try to upload a Google Earth KML file to DGCR so others can use it to check out the course for themselves.

ERic

 

[brokenfixed]

I mainly only play with my wife, we used to keep a notepad and mark the strokes, but lately we've just been keeping track of strokes in our head and determining who won at the end of each hole and keeping that score in our heads. One 18 hole round we played the score was 6 for me, 6 for her, and 6 holes that we tied on...haha We had to play another 12 hole round just to settle bragging rights. (I won 7-0 cause her little arms couldnt hang..haha)

 

[Jungle Tim]

I really like having a scorecard in my pocket as well so I made my own for the three courses I play regularly and turned the files over to one of the local disk sellers. Everyone is happy. There is a PDGA guide for setting pars if you play somewhere that they are not posted.

Being a bit obsessed I also used a google earth satellite photo and photoshop to create a course map for my home course for the newbies that come to our course.

me too!! but i got majorly carried away (see attached although colours are a bit off)!! I got ours laminated!!! so its reusable if you have a dry marker.....

but then they changed the pins!!! damn!

 

[jdawg24]

I marked other too for the same reasons previously stated by a few folks. Many new courses have legit par 4's & par 5's....many old courses have holes that are marked as par 4's on the signs but are really par 3's. If a hole is 600'+, it's not a par 3...

 

[magictenor1]

As you read across the scorecard...

you think of each '3' as a zero off set and ignore those,
you think of each '4' as a +1 and add that,
you think of each '5' as a +2 and add that,
...
you think of each '2' as a -1 and subtract that,
you think of each '1' as a friggin' great shot, and subtract -2.

Then add the typically small delta value to a base value of 54.

It's based on the presumption that most of the hole scores will be '3' and you want to minimize the adding you need to do.

So if you scorecard looked like this:

3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 3

You'd add along the running total in your head, ignoring the 3's and say "+1", "+2", "+3", "+2". 54+2 = 56.

Some people count all the (+) numbers first and then go through again for all the (-) numbers.

Usually it's much faster than: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 19, 22....

You do have to remember to change the base value when playing non-18-hole courses. E.g. your base for a 21-hole course would be (54+9)=63.

ERic

I have always kept score this way and 1st did it for ball golf. I have never used a score card and no one else that I play with does either. I do keep up by the posted par but at the end you can still know what your numerical score is ie if posted par is 64 and you are +3 you shot 67.

 

[Olorin]

EricJ,

How do you get those nested quotes with the person's name like you did in #22? Do you have to write it somewhere else then cut and paste with the code? I can only get the most recent post to quote. (If Tim is lurking out there maybe he can answer too.)

 

[Donovan]

EricJ,

How do you get those nested quotes with the person's name like you did in #22? Do you have to write it somewhere else then cut and paste with the code? I can only get the most recent post to quote. (If Tim is lurking out there maybe he can answer too.)

I first click the Multi-Quote reply button to make it a ["-] (bottom right corner middle button) first and then hit the Reply with Quote button ["Reply]. At this point I just move all the end quotes notations on each one of the quote sections to the end of all the quotes and put them one after each other.

 

[ERicJ]

Yep, multi-quoting isn't very hard with the multi-quote button. I just cut/paste the start quote tag(s) from the other quote(s) to the top of the message.

The "Preview Post" button is your friend to see if it looks like what you want.

ERic

 

[discflinger]

3 IS the magic # and simplicity is far under appreciated.

 

[leppard]

During the round, against a par 3 on all holes. After the round, No par per hole, just the total number of throws and record on a spreadsheet when I get home.

 

[cbeckett22]

I always play the posted par, but at my home course every hole is par 3, so.. yeah.

 

[Trashthrasher]

Against a par 3 on all holes.

 

[wolito]

usually just count everything as par 3, since some course dont have accurate signs and may not know what the par is on that hole anyway.

 

[howardb]

usually just count everything as par 3, since some course dont have accurate signs and may not know what the par is on that hole anyway.

"Ditto"

 

[TalbotTrojan]

I will typically make my own determinations on what par is and base it on that. Of course that generally means that everything is a par 3 since there are so very few holes that are anything but.