you're putting your opinion on to something and saying it's fact. there is no defined distance for close range so you can not say that you are coming from a more factual position. it's just bad logic.
I'm not saying something is fact. I simply disagree with how you're defining "close range."
Redesign the hole. Par two holes shouldn't exist.
I'd stretch it, then. If it were up to me, close range would be the distance from which a scratch disc golfer will finish the hole in 2 shots, say, 80% of the time. This would match the "two throws....to hole out" concept. (And, for those wishing closer parallels to golf, it would be closer to the golf green, where the far edge is a place where pros rarely get in in 1, but often in 2).
You can't really relate it to golf. Pros scramble from close to the green less than 80% of the time, and even if you go out to a few yards off the green we're still talking about only the last
5% of the hole's distance. It doesn't relate, because again putting a ball into a small hole is much more difficult than putting a disc into a basket with chains.
Call it a "par 3", but "par" will be a bad score. Call it what you want, but players are playing it as if a "2" is the standard.
Again, and I think we all agree - it's a poorly designed hole. Change it and make it a legit par three. I don't think par 2s have any place in the game unless it's some sort of putting only course (like mini golf that's got par 2s and par 3s).
(Come to think of it, a putting only course sounds kind of fun.)
Two close range throws is how we finish most holes. Get the second-to-last throw within your putting radius so that you'll put the next throw in the basket. So, if you are trying to get within your putting radius from the tee, that's a par 2.
If that was the case, there would be a whole helluva lot more par 2s out there. There are par threes that most "touring" pros will birdie most of the time. Or par fours they'll birdie most of the time that are still legit par 4s and not par 3s.
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I'm all for legit par 3s, 4s, and 5s.
I just think that if you've got a par 2, you've screwed up somehow. Even the PDGA recommends strongly against having a par 2 hole.
That's all I'm really saying in the end.