re: The 154th Open - Ryan Fox (meh) is your champion golfer of the year

Golf was played for over 400 years before Par was accepted

Yet you say the entire game is based on par and I have the shitty opinion here

Par makes it easier to follow . If it didn’t exist, which it hasn’t for over 80% of the history of golf, it wouldn’t matter. Without Par golf can still be played 100% fine. Once again, that isn’t an opinion

I didn’t start the argument

I’m just Dennis Rodman here getting called for a bullshite technical

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Par was standardized in 1911.

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So 115 years ago. Should we also compare other sports to what they looked like over a century ago? Maybe your question should be why it was standardized and maybe you'll stop being a dumbass about this

But to your other point

Here's an article from when Ben Hogan won a tournament at Brook Hollow in 1946.

Quite a lot of references to par and how he shot relative to that number. Weird, considering it wasn't until TV in the 60s when people started caring about scores relative to par.


The lead of the article

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Dallas, Texas (UP) — Golf’s little idol, bantam Ben Hogan, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, Sunday won the $10,000 Dallas Open championship with a four-over par 284 strokes, exactly the score he predicted five days ago would win over the long and well-trapped Brook Hollow County Club course. Par proved an elusive total to every one of the 83 professionals and amateur players who started the 72 hole medal play Thursday, but Hogan proved the most consistent of the lot as he tacked a 73, three over par, to his 54-hole total of 22 to give him a two-stroke lead over the field.

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So 115 years ago. Should we also compare other sports to what they looked like over a century ago? Maybe your question should be why it was standardized and maybe you'll stop being a dumbass about this

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Dude, you are arguing against a strawman

Par is fine to use and makes sense for fans following. It should stay as it makes tracking a tournament live so much easier

But one thing you said that it’s the entire point of golf is ludicrous, as total strokes is what matters and will always matter, and more importantly my main and only point, raw strokes is factually based on actual freaking data a better way to judge performances than score to par

That isnt controversial or even subjective. You have chooses to argue with a mouse in your pocket I guess while yelling about others arguing

Rory playing the course exactly how the Euros said to on this hole, bomb and gouge

Rory you are the one leaving your face open and pushing every putt right, not the green

Rory just completely baffled that a putt might be straight.

Who let Old Tom in this thread?

Both.

When he got in the shite it wasn’t as bad as it typically is in the open bc everything is so dry

Rory continues to play with his food

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