Welcome to DiscGolf, home of the DiscGolf Pro/Lite mobile applications. We've created this webpage to allow our users to view and share courses, game stats etc online. This webpage supplise public information about courses, but our users may also log in to view their games/rounds, players and more stats.
This information is quoted from Wikipedia.org
Disc golf is a flying disc game, as well as a precision and accuracy sport, in which individual players throw a flying disc at a target. According to the Professional DiscGolf Association, "The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc."
For the complete rules of disc golf, one can read the PDGA Official Rules and Regulations.
The information above can also be found at Wikipedia.org
Note! Out of bounds rules, disc get stuck in a tree, falls in water and other fringe rules are not relevant to our app. You may decide with your opponents to adhere to the PDGA rules or not, but we do not record any such information if you do. So it's totally up to you how to enforce penalties.
Strokeplay is a common form of scorekeeping in discgolf. Your score is calulated based on the hole/par for the course you play at. If you match par for any given hole your score is calculated as 0. Should you throw more than par, you score is said to be +1 etc. This is quite straight forward and in the app you can see your score calulated as total number of throws or par difference. I.e. if course par is 64 and your total was 70 it will be shown as: Par 70 (+6)
See the following table for discgolf/golf terms:
Scoreboard Term | Specific term | Definition |
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-4 | Condor | four throws under par |
-3 | Albatross (or double-eagle) | three throws under par |
-2 | Eagle (or double-birdie) | two throws under par |
-1 | Birdie | one throw under par |
0 | Par | throws equal to par |
+1 | Bogey | one throw more than par |
+2 | Double bogey | two throws over par |
+3 | Triple bogey | three throws over par |
MatchPlay is a popular game form in golf. One of the benefits of Matchplay is that a game can end early as in one player has come so far in the lead that the other player can not catch up. This will happen (for instance) if a game of 18 holes is played and player 1 is 10 up. Player 2 will not be able to reach more than maximum 8 points and has therefore lost the game (the game can end at hole 10 in such circumstances).
We've introduced this format in Discgolf with a few limitations (mainly that you may tie/all-square at the end of a game since we don't allow you to continue after all holes have been played). Matchplay can only be played between two opponents. You may play as teams but must create a player for each team in that case. In match play we only record the team score, not individual throws (any player may set up their own game on their phone to keep track them selves, but it's not part of the matchplay calculations).
Match play differs from stroke play in many different ways. The following rules will help you understand how to play your match:
RULES
Points | Player throws |
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-1 | 1 throw or more than other player/team |
0 | throws equal to other player/team |
+1 | 1 throw or less than other player/team |
You can read more about Match Play at Wikipedia - Matchplay
Par or Bogey play is points based scoring system where one or many players can play against eachother. For each hole played you may receive a point:
Points | Strokes taken |
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-1 | 1 throw or more than par |
0 | throws equal to par |
+1 | 1 throw or less under par |
At the end of a game, points are totalled up and the player with the highest score wins.
Stableford is also a points based scoring system. Trivia: The Stableford system was developed by Dr. Frank Barney Gorton Stableford (1870-1959), to deter golfers from giving up on their round after just one or two bad holes. Normally you'd calulate your score adjusted by your handicap, but as we don't support handicap (yet?) we base score on the hole par vs. player par. An added bonus of Stablefor is that you may get a quicker game since if a player doesn't make par, their score qill always be 0 and you may therefore move on to the next hole without finishing putting the disc in the basket.
The following table describes how points are calculated:
Points | Strokes taken |
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0 | 2 throws over par |
1 | 1 throw more than par |
2 | throws equal to par |
3 | 1 throw under par |
4 | 2 throws under par |
5 | 3 throws under par |
6 | 4 throws under par |
At the end of a game, points are totalled up and the player with the highest score wins.
You can read more about Stableford at Wikipedia - Stableford
Modified Stableford follows the same basic rules as Stableford but score is calculated differently with a weighted points system favouring excellent throws and punishing really bad throws.
The following table describes how points are calculated:
Points | Strokes taken |
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-3 | 2 throws or more over par |
-1 | 1 throw more than par |
0 | throws equal to par |
+2 | 1 throw under par |
+5 | 2 throws under par |
+8 | 3 throws or less under par |
You can read more about Modified Stableford at Wikipedia - Stableford
The courses you find on this webpage have been created from one of our mobile DiscGolf applications. All courses created in the mobile applications are uploaded and shared to all other users in the system. This means that you will eventually be able find courses and information about courses from all over the world.
We try to not place any restrictions on the course data, but instead we provide functionality to see which courses have been updated and which have the highest ranking.
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