Cgkdisc
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You want 18 under to be possible? Fix the holes, don't break par.
Eighteen under only means something if it is truly eighteen throws better than expected.
As Ben Franklin might have said: "Those who would give up meaningful par, to purchase a little artificial excitement, will have neither."
The lowest score that players of a specific distance/skill level can reasonably shoot should be considered "scoring", and in the case of golf, that score is called a birdie. Par in disc golf should be defined as Birdie plus one which is parallel to ball golf. Even though they state their scoring rule in how par is set, the result of their definition is par on every hole is also birdie plus one. That definition equivalency does not currently exist in disc golf.
If the rules definition for disc golf par does not provide the ability for players of a specific distance/skill level to score/birdie on every hole, then the par definition is flawed. Simple as that.
In basketball, their implied "par" on every shot is 0 pts. "Scoring" is 1, 2 or 3 pts for a make. Even though most free throw shooters score 1 pt on more than 50% of their shots up to 90+%, the "par" on free throws is still essentially zero. Applying the current disc golf par definition to free throws, their par should technically be set at 1 pt because free throws are "so easy". Of course, this kind of statistical manipulation would make no sense to their players or fans just like the current par definition doesn't consistently support scoring on every hole.