Golf Stats Question

[goblue107501]

Some of you have scorecards and stats listed and they can be viewed. I was browsing through some to see if there were any ideas I could use for my own stat keeping. I noticed on one that this person recorded a double-bogey 7 on a par 5 but the stats listed a fairway hit and a GIR with two putts. How is this possible? Thinking backwards, the 5th shot reached the green and then two putts. There had to have been an OB or hazard in there somewhere.

What is the correct definition of a 'green-in-regulation'? I have always thought to be classified as a GIR you hit a ball on the green and have a putt for birdie. Am I wrong?

Also, I always thought that a fairway hit was only on your first ball. Although I guess if you hit OB and then hit your second tee ball in the fairway, that could be okay, but I would not give myself a FW in that situation.

Finally, not that this happens to me often, if you reach a par-5 in two and make the eagle putt, how is that stat recorded? Is it a GIR with one putt?

I guess my original example may have been entered wrong an dI have these questions for no reason. Can someone clear this up for me?

[bcollins]

GIR always allows for 2 putts for par, so basically subtract 2 from par and that is the GIR of the hole. GIR is also recorded if you reach the green in under the GIR, so if you do reach a par 5 in 2, that is a GIR.

Sorry can't answer the other question on fairway hits, but I have always assumed that you only get credit for a fairway hit on your first attempt off the tee. Could be wrong though.