Old Dog
Eagle Member
Can someone inform me why Par is a touchy subject on here? What are the arguments for both sides?
I think "par" is a touchy subject because as someone already stated on many Disc Golf courses it is pretty much an arbitrary number of stokes assigned to each hole and has little to no bearing on the difficulty of the hole or the course in general. A par 3 hole on one course may be a lot more difficult than a par 3 on another. Heck, for that matter you can have holes on the same course assigned the same par that are way different from each other.
In other words there is no standardization of the par ratings. So for instance suppose I score three stokes under par (-3) on course A and you score three strokes under par (-3) on course B you could not draw the conclusion that we are evenly matched. You could not make any comparisons between us at all based on scores unless we play head to head on the same course.
It would be really cool if there was someway to standardize par ratings of holes/courses across the board then you could compare players more accurately.