Posting Scores
There are two basic principles behind the practice of posting scores. You must try to make the best score at each hole in every round, and you are required to post every acceptable score. Many golfers believe scores cannot be posted if an entire 9- or 18-hole round is not completed. That is not the case. All of the following are acceptable scores:
· When at least seven holes are played (7–12 holes are posted as a 9-hole score; 13 or more are posted as an 18-hole score).
· Scores on all courses with a Course Rating and Slope Rating.
· Scores in all forms of competition: match play, stroke play, and team competitions where each player plays his own ball.
· Scores made under the Rules of Golf.
· Scores played under the local rule of “preferred lies”.
· Scores made in an area observing an active season.
Adjusted Scores
If you skip a hole or don’t play it according to the Rules of Golf, you must post a score of par plus any handicap strokes you would receive. In other words: Your Course Handicap is 6. You cannot play the par 5 15th hole because it is under construction. The 15th is rated the third handicap-stroke hole on the golf course. For recording purposes, your score on the 15th hole is x-6. The ‘x’ indicates that you did not actually play the hole, and the ‘6’ is your adjusted score from par (5), plus 1 for your handicap. (If your Course Handicap is 2, the adjusted score would be a par (5). You would not get the ‘1’ for the handicap adjustment.)
If you play a mulligan, you should post par plus any strokes you would receive on the hole as your score, not the score that you made with the mulligan.
If you start, but do not complete a hole or are conceded a stroke, you must record the score you most likely would have made had you finished out the hole.
