Analog scorekeeping, continued
Symbolic memories of disc golf
Revisiting hole 6
I am heading back to Maple Hill on Friday to play the blue layout, which is long and difficult. But it is fun, and I am hoping to improve on my score from last year. I may be jinxing myself, but I certainly hope to do better than my worst score ever of 9 strokes on hole 6 (recounted here and drawn below).
Memory of a diaster
I have also continued to experiment with pencil-and-paper scorekeeping for some rounds. Here’s the paper version of that Maple Hill hole 6 disaster. The circles with big Xs are out-of-bounds with penalty strokes (each slash is a stroke):
More symbols!
A couple of holes I played (badly) recently reminded me that I need some more symbols, to account for things like drop zones (when they are called for after an out-of-bounds shot) and proximity to the basket when on the green. I decided to use symbols similar to what PDGA Live uses for score details for pro tournaments where they use scorers for shot-by-shot scoring (though they do not show the path of the disc, just the result).
Here’s a short hole that has an island green. My first shot made it around a mandatory tree, but did not make it to the green. So I had to go to the drop zone (with a penalty shot). DZ seems like an obvious symbol for the drop zone:
Here is a hole that lends itself to a horizontal layout, because it takes a big right turn off the tee. After an out-of-bounds throw off the tee, I re-teed (throwing 3) and landed in the fairway. My fourth shot landed in circle 2 (between 10 and 20 meters from the basket). I use two circles to indicate a circle-2 lie. The fifth shot missed, but the small circle indicates that it is parked near the basket.
There may be more symbols required, but this should cover most situations.
Thanks for reading!