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Latest News - New Scoring System
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April 7, 2003; Source: AnyoneForTee.com "That was no triple bogey, you just shot a grouse!" INTERNATIONAL. The biggest shake-up in golf's scoring system since the formation of the first R&A Rules of Golf Committee in 1897 takes place this month to coincide with the Masters at Augusta. The new scoring system, which has not been approved by the R&A and is not likely to be before at least 2897, is the brainchild of the creators of new golf website, AnyoneForTee.com. It is designed to be more in tune with those golfers, for whom, in PG Wodehouse's words, "desire outruns performance". Its creators claim that under par scores all enjoy attractive, even inspiring names - 'albatross', 'eagle' and 'birdie' - and yet the perfectly acceptable experience for most ordinary golfers of scoring, say, two over par, attracts the prosaic and horrible description of a double bogey. Anyone for Tee, the brainchild of two self-confessed golf under-achievers, says it is time to stop the tyranny. The site's mission statement is "Redefining golf through the eyes of the ordinary golfer". "Ordinary golfers are entitled to birds too, not just, well..., shall we say mucus," they insist. "From now on, all those scores by the legions of men and women around the world who adore golf but struggle to play it, will bear a name that reflects the beauty of the game." The new system shows its respect for the game's traditions by maintaining the bird theme initiated by albatross and eagle. But weekend golfers who are asked in the clubhouse what they shot on the notoriously tricky 3rd will now be able to reply that they fired a hawk, instead of a double-bogey. Even an 8 on that tough par 5 finishing hole, a common experience  for the majority of golfers, will no longer have to be described in shame-faced terms as a triple-bogey, but as a grouse, itself an often-shot object. And when David Duval, then world number two, took four to get out of the greenside bunker at St. Andrew's infamous par 4 'Road Hole' in the final round of the 2000 British Open Championship, running up an 8 in the process, he had not made a vulgar 'quadruple bogey', but what Anyone for Tee now defines as a turkey.
In keeping with the need to try to shoot as low as possible, the birds become more extreme as the scores rise. So in the case of Scottish player Brian Barnes' infamous exploits at the short eighth in the 1968 French Open, when he shot a 15 (12 over par) for the hole, he would nowadays bemoan his bad fortune in shooting a moa - a giant, extinct New Zealand bird. In fact, since he took nearly all those shots going backwards and forwards across the green, he would probably call it a lawn-moa.For full details of the Anyone for Tee 'aviary' scoring system, click here. | ||||||||
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