KEEP SCORE IN GOLF FOR BEGINNERS

Many beginners in golf have a hard time figuring out how to keep score or how to understand the score in golf. They may see the scores posted for a major open golf tournament and have trouble understanding who the leader is. Or the beginner golfer may want to know how to score his or her own game. Keeping score sounds a little confusing for novice golfers but once you get the hang of it, it really is easy to keep an accurate score in golf.


In most sports the highest score wins. In golf it is exactly the opposite. In golf the player with the lowest score wins the game.

Golf scoring is pretty simple, Every time you hit the ball with your club, that's a stroke. Every time you make a stroke, count it.
If you swing at the ball and miss, that doesn't count as a stroke.

so lets say you are a novice golfer, a rookie, a newbie to the game. You take 4 swings at your ball and miss each time. On the fifth swing you finally hit the ball, your score is one stroke, those four missed swings don't count.

At the end of each hole, add up how many times you hit the ball to complete the hole, that's your score for the hole. At the end of the round, add up the strokes for each hole and you have your golf score.

So if at the end of the round, your score is 86 and my score is 82 then I win by four strokes. That is how you keep score in golf.