MGA SCORING

The MGA is concerned with fair and honest play. We are also concerned with people wanting to kill themselves after finishing at 25 over on their round. To combat score-related suicides and encourage accurate score keeping, the MGA has come up with its own version of golf scoring.

The system is simple to learn and will make you a better player in the long run. Essentially, we feel bogey golf should be what mediocre players strive for. Actual par is completely unattainable for mediocre players and simply serves as a frustratingly unreachable mark. That’s why we play to mediocre par, or simply put, Mar. Mar is bogey golf, one over on every hole, a 90 on your standard par 72 course.

Let’s take a look at a sample score card.

With standard scoring, Jon would have recorded a bogey 5 and would be one over on the day. His mental state for the game would be crushed. “How could I bogey a 300 yard par four and ruin this day before it even gets started?” he would scream at the sky. But wait, with the MGA system Jon would have recorded a mar (mediocre par) 5 and would be meeven (mediocre even) on the day! No sense of defeat, no negative mental imaging! On to the next hole!

On hole two Jon recorded a six. A dreaded double bogey to push him to three over on the day already, should he consider suicide??? The answer is no. A rough hole maybe, but he kept it together and only took a mogey (mediocre bogey, you getting the idea yet?) which puts his to one mover on the day (pronounced : mow-ver)

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Finally, a par, at least Jon’s leveled off and stopped the bleeding, mental status upgraded to stable but wavering, score stays at three over. Wrong, this is mediocre scoring, that’s a mirdie baby!! You’re one munder on the hole and that takes you back to meeven on the day! Things are looking good!

Reference

Eagle = Malbatross

Birdie = Meagle

Par = Mirdie

Bogey = Mar

Double Bogey = Mogey

Triple Bogey = Double Mogey

Keep a running tally at the bottom of your card to utilize full mental advantage.

So as you can see, mediocre scoring still results in the same overall score, but your impression of how you are doing during the day is much more in line with where your expectations should actually be set. Thus resulting in a better mental state and more enjoyment of the game. At the end of this nine holes, Jon would have been 13 over with no light at the end of the tunnel, destined to begrudgingly drag his knuckles through the back nine. Instead, Jon is actually only 4 mover with a realistic shot at getting back to meeven by the end of the day, hurrah for golf!