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CeeBee
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:18 am    Post subject:

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I'm good with it. There are plenty of par 70 courses on the tour. Cool
Bryan K
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:51 am    Post subject:

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jpjeffery wrote:
Bryan K wrote:
It counts, and I'll explain why.

Your bogey rating for that course is 83.6 (bogey rating is calculated by dividing slope by 5.381 and adding to the actual course rating). That is about 14.6 strokes over par.

Your typical par 72 course should have a bogey rating of 90, or 18 strokes over par.

Let's to a quick proportion (I know...algebra sucks).

Your score to a bogey rating of 83.6 equals x to a bogey rating of 90. You multiply your 93 times 90 (8370) and divide it by 83.6. Your answer is 100. That is what you would have shot had you been playing as well as you did on that round on a regulation course.

Now the next thing you need to do is to define "breaking 100". One of the things that drives me crazy about how people perceive numbers is how people don't seem to understand the fact that there is no 0 in a golf score. Therefore, breaking into a new set of 10's is always going to start at the tenth number.


OK, so how does my 101 come out of all that? This might be harder to work out with your system as it's a UK course.


Hmm....yeah. I know that the way you guys do things in the UK usually makes more sense than the way we do things in the States, but this would require me to learn a completely new set of rules. And that would probably confuse my friends because I'd probably prefer it. So I'll just stick to what I know for now:)
jpjeffery
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:56 pm    Post subject:

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Bryan K wrote:
Hmm....yeah. I know that the way you guys do things in the UK usually makes more sense than the way we do things in the States

I'm not sure that's true...apart from spelling of course. Cool

Actually, the whole CSS/SSS/Slope Rating and so on doesn't make much sense to me. It all seems a bit contrived (as opposed to ERA in baseball, for instance).

I shall just continue to try to score less than 100 over 18 holes, whatever the par for the course.
Bryan K
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:24 pm    Post subject:

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jpjeffery wrote:
Bryan K wrote:
Hmm....yeah. I know that the way you guys do things in the UK usually makes more sense than the way we do things in the States

I'm not sure that's true...apart from spelling of course. Cool

Actually, the whole CSS/SSS/Slope Rating and so on doesn't make much sense to me. It all seems a bit contrived (as opposed to ERA in baseball, for instance).

I shall just continue to try to score less than 100 over 18 holes, whatever the par for the course.


I am in agreement. I don't think my home course, for instance, is rated nearly difficult enough. The front nine, though, is one of the hardest I've ever played. Every single fairway and green is protected, and a couple of the faiways are just downright impossible to hit. In fact, I would say that two of the three hardest holes I have ever played are on that front nine, and two other holes on the front nine are definitely in the ten most difficult.
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