How do you count the yardage on a golf scorecard?
Every golf course has their scorecards. Say the yardage for hole 1 says 150 from the blue tee. Is that yardage from the tee to the front, middle, or back of the green???
Every golf course has their scorecards. Say the yardage for hole 1 says 150 from the blue tee. Is that yardage from the tee to the front, middle, or back of the green???
Er, to the pin, I think.
Since the pin placement would vary, most courses, unless otherwise noted, measure to the center of the green. Because green aren’t round, the center would be defined as the point equidistant from the backmost portion and the frontmost. This is why yardage books will tell you how deep the green is, and the pin placement is usually indicated by the color of the flag, or some placement code displayed at the beginning of the round which goes with a pin sheet. This way if you know that the pin is in the back of the green, you can add the proper yardage to your shot depending on how deep the green is. A shot to the back of a green that is 42 yards deep would be different than one to the back of a green 28 yards deep.
You look for a blue disc on the tee box the yardage is from that point to the center of the green
Each hole is measured from the tee to the middle of the green.
Unless otherwise stated on the scorecard, all yardage is measured to the centre of the green.
If there is only one yardage given for each color tee, then it’s the middle.