Greens in regulation?

[iacas]

Still a GIR.

And you're still putting. Every stroke taken after you're on the green is considered a putt.

[Fraser]

Not trying to be a pain, but what if you hit a par 5 in two and then smack your putt off the green?

Need to work on your short game?

[BritBoy]

Green on a par four, nice job! what did u end up shooting on that hole anyways?

3 putt par

Did it twice that day!!!!!

[ClairefromClare]

Still a GIR.

Ah--but is the subsequent shot a putt per GIR?

Whoops--didn't read all the way down before trying to be cute.

[Alex B]

There's no such thing as "under GIR." GIR is a binary stat: yes or no.

This is slightly OT, but I remember reading in some Johnny Miller article or book that, as a kid, he would count greens hit in a shot less than regulation as 2 GIR. Although not sensible from a statistics standpoint, it is still logical: if hitting 18 GIR and 2-putting each green yields a score of par, hitting 19 GIR (one green hit a stroke under regulation) and 2-putting each green yields a score of one under par. (Johnny then mentioned the round as a kid where he actually hit, by his own counting method, 19 GIR, the round where he took 16 total putts, and of course the round where he shot a good score on a wee track in Pennsylania...

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