walking from Gold N Stuff part 1

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What is an average golf score for a 13 year old boy?

I went Golfing for the first time today, and I don’t know what an average score was.

hey, im 13 and i play from the tips and i am #1 on the IJGT (international junior golf tour). all you kids can say that 13-14 kids shoot mid 70″s every round but thats just recreational golf. id like to see what they shoot playing in a tournament. it would be fun watching them fold under pressure.but yeah usually kids at the age of 13 shoot about 70-100. i shoot in the 60’s. have a nice day and keep swingin!!!

my golf clubs

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whats the best and most popular golfing software, managing leagues, handicaps, schedules, where do i get it…

downloadable if possible

Two sites that I like are http://www.egolfleagues.com and http://www.imagolfer.com .

I prefer using a website for my golf league because you don’t have to worry about upgrades and compatibility, plus it gives the golfers access to the schedule, leaderboard and stats.

The first one is basic, but it automatically creates your schedule, calculates handicaps, and is real simple to use.

The second one is much more detailed. It handles automatic scheduling of golfers for leagues with teams or without, automatically calculates points based on a variety of different formats (Stableford, Match Play, Best Ball) based on gross or net scores, and will even calculate skins automatically. It also has a setup wizard that steps you through setting up your league. Plus it offers the golfers more features such as allowing them to contact other golfers through the site, automatically request and schedule subs, and post messages on the message board.

One of the things I like best about imagolfer.com over egolfleagues.com is that it shows exactly which scores were used and how the handicap was calculated for any given golfer. I had many times where I was asked to verify the calculations by golfers that didn’t believe their handicap went up after a round, or mad that it went down. It was always right, but it was a pain to figure out manually. Now the golfers just click on their handicap and it shows the calculations and actual results for each step. This is especially helpful if your league uses the USGA formula because it gets a little confusing when you start using the lowest 10 out of the last 20 rounds, etc.

- Rich

Cybergolflessons.com

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Entering my golf scores with/without handicap?

I understand the process of the handicap when playing others which mine is a 20. I know that I must enter every round I play to be fair. My question is when I enter my scores do I deduct my handicap from my total score and enter it. Or, do I enter my actual score. Example: Say I shoot an actual 94 but with my handicap it drops it down to a 76. Would I enter 76 in to the system?

The answer to your question is NO!

No one mentioned “course handicap”. That is the first thing you must figure out. There is a calculator on the ghin site. There is probably a chart at the pro shop or you can look on the terminal where your scores at the golf course. Or you can do it the old fashioned way.

Handicap index (example 19.5) mulitplied by the slope rating (example 122, found on score card) and divided by 113 <--- that number is constant. = 21.05 = course handicap of 21.

Then use equitable score control to adjust the score.

Course handicap ------------------- maxium score per hole

0-9 ---------- Double Bogey
10-19 ---------- 7
20-29 ---------- 8
30-39 ---------- 9
40 or more ---------- 10

So if your course handicap is 21 and you shot 95 with a quadruple bogey on one of the par 5's, you have to subtract a stroke and only take an 8 on the hole. The same with the other holes.

Then post your score.

Golfing Scoring & Tips : How to Calculate Golf Scores

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Feherty and Golf in the Olympics

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Do you think there should be a reshuffling of the world rankings in golf based on the past few weeks?

Tiger’s won almost everything . . . there wouldn’t be much to change. Here is the current rankings:

http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/home/default.sps

LPGA Weekly Wrap for the Week of March 24, 2008

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Special Olympics – The Herald videos

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World Golf Rankings Top 20 – Tiger Woods #1

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Basic Setup for Bunker Shots – www.mulliganplus.com

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How are the world golf rankings calculated?

Points are awarded on the basis of final positions in official money events on the qualifying tours. For each tour, a minimum number of points are available for each event. The number of points available depends on the current rankings (top 200) of the participating golfers and the ranking of the top 30 golfers entered from the “home tour”. In addition, most tours have a premier event that is guaranteed a much higher minimum point level.

The four major tournaments automatically receive the maximum possible rating, with 100 points allocated to the winner. The winners of the three individual events in the World Golf Championships series generally receive 70 to 78 points. The winner of most PGA Tour events gains a number of points in the range from the 24 to 70s, and most European Tour events offer a points tally between 24 and 50s for the winner. (Note: The minimum points for the Sunshine Tour will be raised to 14 beginning in 2007.)

Each player’s personal ranking is calculated from the ranking points he has obtained over the previous two years. Firstly, his scores from all the tournaments he has played in are scaled down over a two year period, with one eighth of the points awarded for each tournament deducted every thirteen weeks in order to give priority to recent form. The player’s adjusted scores are then totalled, and this total is divided by the number of ranking tournaments in which he has participated over the previous two years, subject to a minimum denominator of 40 tournaments. The resulting averages for all players are put into descending order to produce the ranking table. This means that the player who has obtained most cumulative success does not necessarily come top of the rankings: it is average performance levels that are important, and some golfers play substantially more tournaments than others. Players with full membership of one of the larger tours (that is, almost all players in the top few hundred in the rankings) usually play between 20 and 35 ranking tournaments each year, unless they are injured. New rankings are released every Monday.

The Official World Golf Rankings are a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. They were introduced in 1986 and are endorsed by the four Major Championships and the six professional tours which make up the International Federation of PGA Tours, which are the PGA TOUR, the European Tour, the Asian Tour, the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Japan Golf Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. Points are also awarded for high finishes on the Canadian Tour, Nationwide Tour and Challenge Tour.

Watson Catapults Up Golf Rankings

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