Adontalis
Newbie
Also, when you do get that 3 on the 750' hole, you feel pretty awesome!
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Only if you're dumb enough to put more stock in silly words than the much easier numerical system already provided. I think anyone who has been around the block enough knows there are holes that you're happy to get a 4, or even a 5 on, and that most people who call "everything is par 3" are just doing it to make score keeping simpler.Yes.
Because if you get a 4 on a hole and take a "bogey", when in reality it was a Par... and then you go on to chunder the next 5 holes because you're mentally dejected about your "bogey"... (i.e. what should have been your Par)... then Par does matter.
In other words, since a par '4' and a bogey '4' add up the same, no it doesn't matter.So, no it doesn't change the way you add up the shots, but it does matter.
If it means that much to you, make up your own par.
Honestly I am just trying to understand why some of you dont think par matters because I have never played with anybody who thought that way. Everybody I know plays to: beat their best score, beat their opponent, and beat the course average (par) And No that is not to say we are hard core a-holes that only care about score, it means we are out to have fun and play our best based on these (and other) factors.
Not to attack RTS about the par in pdga thing, but one more argument against it is that TDs set "par" for each event individually, there isn't one for a course. I've seen the same course listed as par 60 and par 54, both in tournaments, from the same tees.