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All the talk of scores like -90 at Worlds got me thinking that we need to just ditch the term Par in our game……and I was going to jump in and suggest that. But that is a losing battle even if it is needed. That will never happen.....nor will coming up with a standard universally agreed upon and applied definition.
So, instead of ditching Par, I think we need another measure to communicate to DGers what Par essentially communicates to BGers.
What we are essentially interested in when looking at a score is knowing 1) how many Drives the course designer intended for an expert to get into the 10M circle (and if they player achieved that), and 2) if they made their Putt.
So, we should measure that. Let's have a term/stat that measures that.
Here are the terms I thought of (exact term is up for grabs):
DOP – Drives and One Putt
TAP – Throws And one Putt
POT – Putt Once and Throws
POD – Putt Once and Drives
If we only count "Drives" that might be confusing on some holes where the designer has intended an expert to land say 100' short of the basket…..then is the upshot a Drive? Doesn't feel like a Drive! That hole would be a DOP-2. Course DOP very would rarely be achieved and basically never broken (to go under DOP you would need all Birdies and at least one legit Eagle - in today's terms).
So, TAP would count the Drive, the Upshot, and one Putt. That hole would be a TAP-3 hole. TAP measures perfect play as intended by the designer.
I prefer TAP to DOP……but POT is the best term in that is specifies ONE putt (the clear differentiator to most people's concept of Par). But, DG already has more POT than is needed. TOP would also work, but just does not sound right to me.
So, instead of ditching Par, I think we need another measure to communicate to DGers what Par essentially communicates to BGers.
What we are essentially interested in when looking at a score is knowing 1) how many Drives the course designer intended for an expert to get into the 10M circle (and if they player achieved that), and 2) if they made their Putt.
So, we should measure that. Let's have a term/stat that measures that.
Here are the terms I thought of (exact term is up for grabs):
DOP – Drives and One Putt
TAP – Throws And one Putt
POT – Putt Once and Throws
POD – Putt Once and Drives
If we only count "Drives" that might be confusing on some holes where the designer has intended an expert to land say 100' short of the basket…..then is the upshot a Drive? Doesn't feel like a Drive! That hole would be a DOP-2. Course DOP very would rarely be achieved and basically never broken (to go under DOP you would need all Birdies and at least one legit Eagle - in today's terms).
So, TAP would count the Drive, the Upshot, and one Putt. That hole would be a TAP-3 hole. TAP measures perfect play as intended by the designer.
I prefer TAP to DOP……but POT is the best term in that is specifies ONE putt (the clear differentiator to most people's concept of Par). But, DG already has more POT than is needed. TOP would also work, but just does not sound right to me.