Triple bogeys in golf: your fault or the course designer’s?

I played in the Croydon Cyclone last weekend, a part of the British Disc Golf Association national tour. One hole’s layout was controversial. It’s short, a distance that almost any player can reach from the tee. The designers spiced things up by surrounding the basket and most of the fairway with Out-of-Bounds areas that incurred a one-shot penalty, and required a rethrow, from the tee. What had in previous years been a really easy hole became a cruel score card nightmare. I took the stats of all the scores from the score cards and did the viz below.

You can read my full commentary on the BDGA forum by clicking here.


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