The more we get away from mainstream golf terms, the more difficult it is for our sport to go mainstream.
Why not keep the term par but define it as you are defining it? I think those acronyms sound silly.
Both of these. As much as we want to differentiate ourselves from Ball Golf. How do you describe Disc Golf to someone who has NEVER seen/played it. I've yet to successfully describe the sport without "Basically its golf, but with a frisbee"
I have no issue with par 2's. it is a little bit off from my 25yrs of playing ball golf, but easy enough to think about.
I did this at a local course, that has Par 54 (all 3's) and it would become 51. (per pdga par guidelines for Gold Level) 3 par 2's.
Another local course would be par 48 with 6 par 2's. another would be 52.
I'd like to see longer courses, in the par 60 range (with some 2's, 3's, 4's, and 5's) and it'd be awesome.
The problem is this. Ricky throws a putter 400'+. I throw a putter 300'+, my buddy Jack throws 175'+. Do we set par based on what Ricky can throw? or what I can throw? Or what Jack can throw? Unlike ball golf, people all play the same tees, we don't have Gold / Black / White / Red like golf, where people actually play their skill level at the tees.
If we set par based on my abilities, then ricky will be FAR under par. If we set it at Ricky's, then everyone else will be far over par. We don't have the luxury of multiple tees that people actually use for skill level, but we use them as "different courses", if the course even has multiple tees.
I say we set it at 1000 rated players skill level, let the top players blow it away (if we really care about "under par" it could be adjusted for NT's they play)
I think we need to do a better job of getting SSE/SSA set at each course, and making that course par. Then having local knowledgeable folks set which holes are adjusted up/down to match the SSE/SSA. and bam we have Par for each hole. Most courses SSE is under 3 per hole, so a few par 2's would be needed.