Week Seven: Club Selection
Core Value: Responsibility
Rule of the Day: Scorekeeping
Lesson: Full Swing: club selection and yardage charts
Practice: Full Swing: filling out your yardage chart
Application: Golf Course (Focus: keeping score)
Homework: Quiz 7
Extra Resources:
Scorekeeping
The first thing you do on the golf course is exchange scorecards with your opponent. You do not keep your own scorecard. This is for accountability and honesty, keeping with the spirit of the game. At the tee box of each hole, mark your own score on the bottom of your opponent’s scorecard, and mark his score by his name.
After you finish your round, go through your scores out loud and make sure you and your opponent each agree with your scores. Then you will sign by “scorer” and your opponent (whose name is on the card) will sign by “opponent”/”attest”.
If you turn in a score that is higher than your actual score, it’s fine. But you are disqualified if you submit a score lower than your actual score.
Typically (and in GJGA), you should pick up your ball after double par (for par 3s = 6, for par 4s = 8, for par 5s = 10). You then place an ‘x’ after the number (so 6x, 8x, 10x). A 6x is counted as a 7, 8x = 9, and 10x = 11. So a 6x is NOT the same as a 6.
Scoring terms
One over par is a bogey, shown as +1. One under par is birdie, shown as -1. See below:
+4 Quadruple bogey (9 on a par 5)
+3 Triple bogey (8 on a par 5)
+2 Double bogey (7 on a par 5)
+1 Bogey (6 on a par 5)
0/E Par/Even (5 on a par 5)
-1 Birdie (4 on a par 5)
-2 Eagle (3 on a par 5)
-3 Albatross (2 on a par 5)
-4 Condor (1 on a par 5)
-5 Ostrich (never been accomplished) (1 on a par 6)
Hole in one - Ace (1 on a par 5, 1 on a par 4, 1 on a par 3)