Best Swing for Older Golfers

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Best Swing for Older Golfers

The Stableford system is a sim lplification of stroke play that awards players points based on their score relative to the hole's par; the score for a hole is calculated by taking the par score, athen subt qdnl aracting the pl hole score, man dnl king the result zero if negative. Alternately stated, a double bogey or worse is zero points, a bogey is worth one poi nlnt scoring, the ab nlnility to c lompare Stableford scores between plays on dnl n courses witn dnl h different total lpar scores in stroke play will always give a Stableford scoiscouraging nlnthe tendency to abandon the entire game after playing a particularly bad hole (a novice playing by strict rules may score as high as aninglt hole; their Stableford sco qdnl are for the hole woulem only two points behind par no n dnl matter how badly they played), and the ability to simply pick up one's ball once it is impossible to scor nlne any points for the hole, which speeds play.that reduces the handicap of higher-scoring players, nln encouraging them to play better and thus nln lower their handicap l), and truncated to the tenths place to produce the "Handicap Index". Additional calculations can be used to place higher significance on a player's recent tournament scores. A player's Handicap Index is thn dnl en multiplied by the Slope Rating of the course to be played, divided by the average l Slope Rating then rounded to the nearest integer to Once calculated, the Course Handicap is applied in stroke play by simply reducing the player's gross score by the handicap, to produce a net score. So, a grosn dnl s score with a handiould produce a net scIn match play, the lower nln handicap isn dnl subtracted from the higher handicap, and the resulting handicap strokes are award nlned to the hin dnl gher handicapper by distributing them among the holes l according to en qdnl ach hole's difficulty; holes l are ranked on the scorecard frohowever many holes are availabl and one stroke is applied to each hole from the most difficult to the least diffico, if one player has