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Keeping the score | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The existing golf scoring system based around the notion of 'par' was obviously  invented by good golfers. Only scores better than par have fun, feathery names, suggesting the soaring flight of a bird - or a golf ball - on the wing: the friendly birdie, the majestic eagle, the rare and fabled albatross.But ordinary golfers know that golf isn't like that. So with 'par' today accepted as the 'normal' score for a hole - one, two or three shots to the green, plus two putts - what is left for the vast majority of handicap golfers for whom a par is the exception, not the rule? For scores above par there is only the dull, and historically incorrect, term of 'bogey', extending into double-, treble-, quadruple- or more, to describe the scores all too often run up by the handicap player. Why should those of us who think a 'double bogey' is often a pretty fine achievement be left with the dregs of the golf scoring system? 
Don't get us wrong: at Anyone for Tee we are nothing if not respectful of the traditions of the game. We respect the word 'bogey' as it was originally intended (although we don't find it a very pretty name - see here), that is to say the score that a good golfer with considerable experience and accumulated skill can be expected to make on a hole. We know that to achieve 18 'bogeys' in a round is the dream of most golfers, who are realistic enough to understand that 18 successive pars are beyond their reach. After all, was that not what Nick Faldo needed to do - and did - to win the 1987 Open Championship at Muirfield? Anyone for Tee has therefore redefined the golf scoring system, by looking at the game from the ordinary players's point of view. Discover the whole system by clicking here, or click on any bird's name below to read a full description of that score. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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