Played a par 69 course on Tuesday and scored a 93. Did I break100? This is my first year of playing golf and I've been close recently. Scored a 101 on a par 72 (shot a 10 on the 17th). I try not to look at the my score until the very end so when I finished the round and realized I was at 93 I was happy... But it was only a par 69 so I don't know if it "counts".

i'd say yes. you played the blues at 5500 yards, par 69, 107 slope which makes it approx 4-5 shots less than blues at a typical 72 par course. nice back 9 there. congrats.

if it's gnawing at you, then just break 100 at a longer course and you don't have to worry bout it

Odds are my next round will be worse... Maybe even a lot worse.... Just when I think I'm getting somewhere I will blow up on a couple holes and I'll come back to reality... The trend overall has been one of improvement.

George crawford wrote:

Just when I think I'm getting somewhere I will blow up on a couple holes and I'll come back to reality...

Welcome to the game of golf! A love/hate relationship.

Congrats on your breaking 100, and your trending improvement.

I know the double digits is a huge goal for most golfers, but the difficulty of the course makes a big difference.

According to the USGA, your 103 on June 18th is just slightly your best round, almost even with this one.
But the course you played at on the 18th is a VERY hard course.

But, you have been shooting your handicap or better, you are doing great.

They say you should only beat your handicap 5% of the time... but you are doing that more often, which means you are improving quickly.

I would count this score as a great one.
When you break 100 on a par 72, you'll feel better.
The first time I broke 100, it was 2 9 hole rounds.

Next time out I beat it in a full 18.
Keep up the good work, you'll knock over a lot more records soon.

Congrats! I'd say this counts, but with an asterisk. I had a similar situation to you last fall. The first time I broke 100 was in September, when I shattered the barrier with an 87. But, it was on a par-66 course. I was happy with my achievement, but I was much more excited a couple of months later when I shot a 98 on a par-72 course.

Savor the excitement of your score ... it's a big deal. But, you'll be more excited when you can say you beat a "big boy course".

PS - You may be right about having a bad round the next time out. The round I played after my first sub-100 round on a par-72 course was played on the very same course ... and I scored a 116

My first double-digit round was on a par 70. I shot my first sub 90 round on the same course.

I'd count it. Good Job.

I think you broke 100. You may have a little mental asterisk next to the score but if you can shoot 93 on a par 69, you will shoot under 100 on a par 70/71/72 at some point. Hope you kept the score card. I saved mine.

I always keep score on my oob phone app... I have nothing no frame.

It counts, and I'll explain why.

Your bogey rating for that course is 83.6 (bogey rating is calculated by dividing slope by 5.381 and adding to the actual course rating). That is about 14.6 strokes over par.

Your typical par 72 course should have a bogey rating of 90, or 18 strokes over par.

Let's to a quick proportion (I know...algebra sucks).

Your score to a bogey rating of 83.6 equals x to a bogey rating of 90. You multiply your 93 times 90 (8370) and divide it by 83.6. Your answer is 100. That is what you would have shot had you been playing as well as you did on that round on a regulation course.

Now the next thing you need to do is to define "breaking 100". One of the things that drives me crazy about how people perceive numbers is how people don't seem to understand the fact that there is no 0 in a golf score. Therefore, breaking into a new set of 10's is always going to start at the tenth number. Therefore, breaking 80 means that you shot an 80. You are actually in the 70's when you shoot an 80 because, as I have stated, there is no 0. So the first ten go 1-10, the second ten goes 11-20, and so on. So by my estimation, you broke 100 by shooting a 100 because the 90's go from 91-100.

Im a high school math teacher so all that stuff is gold....

Bryan K wrote:

Now the next thing you need to do is to define "breaking 100". One of the things that drives me crazy about how people perceive numbers is how people don't seem to understand the fact that there is no 0 in a golf score. Therefore, breaking into a new set of 10's is always going to start at the tenth number. Therefore, breaking 80 means that you shot an 80. You are actually in the 70's when you shoot an 80 because, as I have stated, there is no 0. So the first ten go 1-10, the second ten goes 11-20, and so on. So by my estimation, you broke 100 by shooting a 100 because the 90's go from 91-100.

Bryan, I understand the idea behind the '0' but I don't think it applies to golf scoring and would argue that most people's idea of 'breaking 80' would mean taking 79 or fewer shots.

Duke of Hazards wrote:

Bryan, I understand the idea behind the '0' but I don't think it applies to golf scoring and would argue that most people's idea of 'breaking 80' would mean taking 79 or fewer shots.

Yeah...most people think that the new millenium started in 2000, too, but that doesn't change the fact that most people are wrong.

No offense intended. This just happens to be one of my biggest bugaboos. Yeah, if your talking about handicap, single digits means 0-9. But if you're talking about score, a 10 on a hole is still in the first grouping of 10.

George crawford wrote:

Im a high school math teacher so all that stuff is gold....

Glad I could help. Truth is, I hate math. But I find myself using algebra constantly, so I decided I'd better get good at it:)

Bryan K wrote:

It counts, and I'll explain why. Your bogey rating for that course is 83.6 (bogey rating is calculated by dividing slope by 5.381 and adding to the actual course rating). That is about 14.6 strokes over par. Your typical par 72 course should have a bogey rating of 90, or 18 strokes over par. Let's to a quick proportion (I know...algebra sucks). Your score to a bogey rating of 83.6 equals x to a bogey rating of 90. You multiply your 93 times 90 (8370) and divide it by 83.6. Your answer is 100. That is what you would have shot had you been playing as well as you did on that round on a regulation course. Now the next thing you need to do is to define "breaking 100". One of the things that drives me crazy about how people perceive numbers is how people don't seem to understand the fact that there is no 0 in a golf score. Therefore, breaking into a new set of 10's is always going to start at the tenth number.

OK, so how does my 101 come out of all that? This might be harder to work out with your system as it's a UK course.