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I'm not sure I could play a round of disc golf without keeping score. What would be the point otherwise? I'm proud of the fact that I've recorded every round I've ever played on this website.
Its not complicated. The "everything is a par 3" crowd doesn't really analyze what par is for, and might as well just be adding up all their strokes and not calling anything par.
Why not just play what the course designer intended?
If the course has a pro par and a rec par, then why not play what's listed?
If your make a living at, or supplement your income by playing disc golf....then by all means you should play the pro par.
If your income has nothing to do with disc golf, then you should consider yourself an amateur and play the rec par.
I've never scored a single round of mine, including the one tourney I played in. I have plenty of fun playing that way. I just try to do the best I can with every throw, that's all I care about. How good each my shots are. Score is meaningless to me.
If I were to play by a par, I'd play everything as a 3. That would be more fun to me, especially at longer courses. When I play <300 foot holes I expect a 2, 300-400 feet I expect one too if my drive hits the line I want. Hole #1 at Dover, Ohio from the White tee is 800 feet or so and it's fun to try and get it in 3 shots. Takes 2 really accurate, long drives to get in good putting position, but I've been able to hit the basket on my 3rd shot.
People freak out on this site when anyone brings up what par should be. Everyone I know uses 3 as standard but there are people on here that will argue to the death that par should be 5 or 6, because higher par's make people feel better about their high scores. I think thats the main reason why people like it that way. If I played the par listed on tee signs at many of my local courses I would end up 20 under par most of the time because 300 foot holes are listed as par 5 on the tee sign. Nobody I know pays attention to the par on the tee sign.
A 54 is a 54. A 63 is a 63. Without being rude, regarding forum guidelines; this discussion is endless. See: 54 is 54; 63 is 63. End thread....