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stupid question and i haven't done this in a long time but i saw someone take his first putt and he went off the green and had to chip or putt to get back on and finish the hole. my question is, how do you record your putts for that hole? if you were already on and then aren't and then are, would it still be a two putt or is it once you start putting you count all strokes?
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| # 1 2/29/2012 10:05:00 AM |
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No clue. That is a really good question.
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| # 2 2/29/2012 10:07:13 AM |
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you could make a GIR and record a 2 putt which would look like par but would be bogey or worse. that can't be right but i can't think of what else you'd do
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| # 3 2/29/2012 10:40:06 AM |
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I've had that happen to me on two different par 3 holes. I had a GIR but my putt ran off the green (sloping green). I chipped back on and putted once into the hole. By definition, I only had two putts with a GIR but bogeyed the hole. Stracka will not show it as a GIR because of the score and the number of putts ... but you know that you did have a GIR.
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| # 4 2/29/2012 11:26:11 AM |
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I would count all shots on the green as putts. That is after I pulled my putter out of my butt for putting the first one off the green.
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| # 5 2/29/2012 1:32:45 PM |
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I think that once you start putting (from on the green) and counting putts, all the strokes until holed are counted as putts: in this case, it's a 3 putts bogey after a GIR. It does not matter what club is used. This mirrors the fact that you can use your putter from off the green and it does not count as a putt...
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| # 6 2/29/2012 5:08:24 PM |
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a putt is a stroke taken on a green with a putter
that's not hard, is it? |
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| # 7 3/1/2012 2:34:34 AM |
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I would count all shots on the green as putts. That is after I pulled my putter out of my butt for putting the first one off the green. Troy got it right. A putt is defined as a stroke made when any part of the ball is touching the green. On that point the rules of golf are quite clear. It's not a putt if you are off the green even though you may use your putter to make the stroke, and it is a putt if you are on the green regardless of what club you use to make the stroke. Now if you followed that, you can probably answer this question on your own. So in Greenjacket's example, if the player first got on the green in the allowed number of strokes, but then putted off the green, is it a GIR or not? |
