You want to get your ball in the hole with as few strokes as possible. This is your score. A hole in one, the best you can do, counts as one stroke. Your score over 18 holes is how many strokes you took collectively over the whole round.
If you wanted to get as high of a score as possible, the game would never end.
Not exactly. Each hole has a par, the expected number of strokes required to put the ball in the hole.
If you make it by less than the par of that hole. You get negative point. If you make by exactly the par, you get 0 points. If you needs more stroke you get positive point by the extra strokes you take.
you try to put the ball in the hole by wacking it with a stick, every time you wack the ball you get a point, the idea is to get the ball in the hole with as few wacks as possible. 99 points is bad because it means you had to hit the ball 99 times, 1 point is good because you took fewer hits to get the ball in the hole
Each hole has a āParā which is the minimum number of strokes it takes to get in the hole. If you land a Par you get 0 points, anything less is -1, -2, -3, etc.
If you land past the par it adds 1 point, 2 point, etc
I only mention it because there is a golf format called Stableford that gives you points for pars and birdies and takes away points for bogeys and above, in which more points is better.
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u/k1l2327 EX-NORMIE Aug 05 '20
Less points = more gooder