What is the meaning of scores like these?

Question

If I have a situation like this: I have a tournament, of 3 days, and each day you play 18 holes, and there are 73 professionals in this tournament and 7 more amateurs are invited to it. On the first day the amateur gets five under 66 and that puts him in the lead. On the last day he wins the entire thing, scoring a -7. What does it mean? What does five under 66 mean? What does -7 mean? I'm writing a report on this amateur and I don't quite understand the significance of the score. Does it mean that he only needed five strokes to hit the ball over 66 or what?

Thank you!

Answer 1

For the first day he shot 5 strokes under par. Which means that par for that course is a 71. How you calculate that is you take the 66 and add 5 to it to get 71.  If he scored a total of -7 for the tournament it means that he shot 7 under the total par for the 3 days. The total par for the three days on this particular course is 213. Therefore he shot a 206 for the tournament.To shoot par means that you took the given amount of strokes to complete the course according to the people that built the course. Of course its better when you use less strokes to complete a round of golf.

Answer 2

The 2nd guy ("vbarba1284") is correct.

5 under 66 means:  

For one particular round (out of the 3), the player shot a score of 66 (and that score was 5 under par).  Therefore, the par must have been 71 (66+5)

"-7 for the entire thing" means:  

The player's total score for the 3 day tournament was 7 under par (or 206 for the tournament). Since the par was 71, then the par for 3 days would be 213 (71 x 3).  7 under would be 206 (213-7).

Answer 3

In golf the less strokes it takes to hit the ball in the hole, the better. For example if the course is a par 72, it takes 72 strokes to shoot an even round for that course. Since the amateur shoots 5 under 66, it means it took him 5 less strokes for  the round. Now, what I mean by round is 18 holes of golf.  So if he shot a 5 under round for that day the course he plays is a par 71.  The next two days, he shot either a 70 both days or one of the days he shoots 71 then a 69.  If you do the math 3 rounds at 71 a piece equals 213.   If he shot a 66,70 and 70 it would equal 206 hence it took him 7 less shots so that is how he shot -7 under.

Answer 4

The scores are in relation to par.  Par is what an "expert" player should score for the 18 holes.  In this case par for the 18 holes must have been 71.  The guy shot 66 the first day and thus he was 5 under par.  He finished a total of 7 under par for the tournment.  Par for the three rounds would be 213, and he must have shot a total of 206 for the three days.

Answer 5

lol

Answer 6

5 under 66 - par is 66 and you are 5 strokes under par

-7 is 7 strokes under par