Talk:Golf/Archive 6

How is the "cut" decided?
Golf tournament redirects to this article. I came because I wanted to learn how the cut is done. I know the general pattern for a tournament is they play on Thursday and Friday. The best "X" scores get to continue on into the weekend. How is "X" decided? I had been on the PGA Championship and then 2013 PGA Championship articles but they don't mention the word "cut."

Moving back a year, the 2012 PGA Championship article has sub-sections under "Past champions in the field" sections named "Made the cut" and "Missed the cut" with no explanation on what the "cut" is. 2012 PGA Championship says "72 players made a cut which fell at 150 (+6)" but again no explanation on what that means.

Also, is "72 players made a cut" correct English for golfers? I'd always heard "made the cut" or "missed the cut" and so updated the 2012 PGA Championship article. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 19:45, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Par 70 or 71
The third paragraph under "Par" includes the sentence, "Many major championships are contested on courses playing to a par of 70, 71, or 72 (typically reducing the number of par-4 holes for par-3s and trading distance for difficulty)." But almost every par-70 or par-71 major I've seen reduces the number of par-5s in favor of long par-4s. More than four par-3s on any professional course is extremely rare; the variable is the number of par-5s. I'd edit this myself, but from reading this talk page, I gather that this entire entry is rather contentious. 76.169.154.92 (talk) 04:47, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I've added a "[citation needed]" to that sentence. While that does not resolve the issue you brought up neither the sentence nor the explanation in parentheses is supported by a citation. It would be great if a cite was found for what you reported on. It's making a claim about "many major championships." I'll assume that's the Men's major golf championships? FWIW - looking at the past five years:
 * {| class="wikitable"

! Tournament                    !! 2009 !! 2010 !! 2011 !! 2012 !! 2013
 * Masters Tournament                  || 72 || 72 || 72 || 72 || 72
 * 2009 U.S. Open || 70  || 71   || 71   || 70   || 70
 * The Open Championship               || 70  || 72  || 70  || 70  || 71
 * PGA Championship                    || 72   || 72   || 70   || 72   || 70
 * }
 * I did not count the numbers of par 3/4/5/more as we are possibly drifting into WP:OR or WP:SYNTH unless someone wants to focus on many decades of Men's major golf championships, the Women's major golf championships and to carefully construct something that shows us how the overall par was arrived at. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 23:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
 * PGA Championship                    || 72   || 72   || 70   || 72   || 70
 * }
 * I did not count the numbers of par 3/4/5/more as we are possibly drifting into WP:OR or WP:SYNTH unless someone wants to focus on many decades of Men's major golf championships, the Women's major golf championships and to carefully construct something that shows us how the overall par was arrived at. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 23:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
 * }
 * I did not count the numbers of par 3/4/5/more as we are possibly drifting into WP:OR or WP:SYNTH unless someone wants to focus on many decades of Men's major golf championships, the Women's major golf championships and to carefully construct something that shows us how the overall par was arrived at. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 23:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2014
External Link: www.ultimategolfzone.com

Devon4786 (talk) 15:43, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

❌ - We aim not to be a "Linkfarm" - Arjayay (talk) 15:50, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Electric golf carts
Most rounds played with carts?

The article states that "At most courses, electric golf carts are used to travel between shots". It might be the case in North America and Japan (and other Asian countries" but on the British isles and in Scandinavia walking is the norm (electric carts are available but seldom used). I'm not familiar with the situation on the European continent.

So, is the statement that "At most courses, electric golf carts are used to travel between shots" really true from an international point of view? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.113.46.74 (talk) 20:09, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I have rewritten the offending paragraph. Nigej (talk) 17:03, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2015
One of the biggest misconceptions is that the name for GOLF came from the acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden, which is definitely not ture

Jcobb1974 (talk) 00:27, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  01:37, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Scoring: add "Double Eagle" ?
I would like to suggest adding a "*" next to the Albatross in the scoring section. under the scoring section a sentence something like "* also known as a Double Eagle". Im fairly certain the PGA uses the term "double eagle" exclusively. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gizziiusa (talk • contribs) 15:53, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Since an "eagle" is 2-under-par for a hole, the term "double eagle" technically would mean -4 rather than -3. 207.210.134.83 (talk) 17:12, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

3 under par is called a double eagle (in the United States at least), regardless of your math. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.213.236 (talk) 21:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps refer to informal use of Mulligan's with hyperlink to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligan_%28games%29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by LGJ 68 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Air Horn Pranks
There should be a section talking about blowing air horns at golf courses. 67.182.185.148 (talk) 02:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * No, there shouldn't. wjemather bigissue 09:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Air Horn Pranks? Agree - No. Perhaps of more interest might be reference in popular culture movies: Caddyshack & Happy Gilmore, etc? — Preceding unsigned comment added by LGJ 68 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Longest hole
At its peak, Koolan Island had a population of 950 people and had a school, police station, recreation facilities and shops. It had the world's then-longest golf course hole — an 860 yards par 7 number 6 which doubled as the island's air strip. Tabletop (talk) 07:38, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

The Satsuki golf course in Sano, Japan, has the longest hole in the world: a 964-yard, par-7. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LGJ 68 (talk • contribs) 14:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 October 2015
i belive the golf page is incorrect because it does not state that kim jung un,s father had done a 38 shot game

Growadoado (talk) 01:42, 22 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. A claim like that would require multiple independent sources. —C.Fred (talk) 01:45, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 November 2015
“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Texasranger22 (talk) 17:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


 * no explicit edit specified (if you just wanted this quote dropped in the article, that wouldn't work, it would need framing and explaining) and this joke is already mentioned in History of golf. --McGeddon (talk) 18:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)