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"803.02 Relief from Obstacles A. A player may obtain relief from the following obstacles: harmful insects or animals, or any item as designated by the Director. To obtain relief, the player may mark a new lie that is on the line of play, farther from the target, at the nearest point that...

The issue at hand is not vague. It just doesn't always provide relief. So the question is: Should the book grow to allow for MORE cases of not playing it where it lies?

There are other reasons besides OB why relief would not be available. Those would also need to be taken into account. Since rules are usually enforced from memory, it's better to keep them simple. Covering every kind of "Ooooh poor baby, we'll find you some really nice place to take your lie...

Correlation to ratings does not align well with distance, or even to high scores.

For MPO, hole #16 had the weakest correlation of scores to ratings. Only 0.1% of the total variance in scores came from the variance of the expected scores based on ratings. (Ball golf analysts call the other 99.9% "luck".) To be fair, all holes are overwhelmingly luck-based by this measure...

803.01 Moving Obstacles B. A player is not allowed to move any obstacle on the course, with the following exceptions: [,,,] 3. A player may restore course equipment to its proper working order, including the removal of obstacles.

Performance Tracks

Imported from another thread: Cgkdisc said: "Your way is ineffective for designing holes in advance or correcting them when the data shows the design for scoring needs tweaking. Has nothing to do with our "official" par definition that we and all of the posters suffering through thousands of...

That's not how birdie is defined. Birdie is one less than par. Par is the score that an expert disc golfer would be expected to make on a given hole with errorless play under ordinary weather conditions. That's the official definition according to the governing body of the sport. Trying to...

One, for can be done. But, the criteria for par is that a score can be expected with errorless play. For par 4, the PDGA Guidelines say if 1000-rated players are getting 35% or more 4s or better, then that's really good evidence that a score of 4 can be expected with errorless play - par 4...

Nice analysis. Perhaps the error is trying to combine those two 225 foot throws.

The 1050-foot hole #12 is a par 5 because that's what the TD set. It has usually scored like a par 6 according to the methods Par by Average Score (of the 1000-rated expert), and Par by Scoring Distribution. However, it is not clear why it should be scoring as a par 6. It would seem a smart...

At 2022 Worlds, Aaron had a 3 throw lead going into the last round, and Paul was still favored to win it.

Haven't done one of these in a while.

The basket is still standing, the trees are not. I'd say the basket won.