How come there are not more bad courses?

[Kyle Harris]

And yet, I can't help but think: I know it profiteth a man nothing to gain the whole world and lose his soul, but for two Par 5s?

Well this is rather presumptuous about the amount of Par-3 holes.

[Kalen Braley]

I suppose it really depends on how we're defining a "bad course".


If its just Doak zeros, then yes, this is a small group. But if we're including the 1's then this easily gets into the thousands!

[Jeff_Brauer]

Well, since the Doak scale only rates the top half of courses, by his own system, then anything less than a 1 is still average, I guess.  There could be 8,000 poor courses, but I don't think there are.


We could also define poor under the light of "poor for their audience."  This group is only interested in the top 10% of courses in the world design wise, but a muni owner might look at his flat, bunkerless course, pumping rounds through like crap through a goose, as a thing of real beauty...…..

[Kalen Braley]

Jeff,


Not sure which version you read, but his scale puts the average course at 3.  I would suspect that 2s and 3s via his scale represent more than 50% of the courses out there..even if he rarely sees any of them.  Most of the courses in Northern Utah are certainly a 2 or 3.



https://golfcoursegurus.com/rankings/doakscale.php