@7AnimalMother wrote:
Basically, in any given tournament, someone can shoot one under for each par 3 & each par 4 longer than say ~375 yards, and 2 under for each par 4 under ~375 yards and each par 5 fairly easily.
Any lower than that requires a hole out from a full swing shot. While hole outs do happen, it starts to get suspicious if more than one happens in a 4-hole tournament (especially if it's always the same person).
So for the tournament in your example, -5 is the expected score. -6 will be shot by a few people, and maybe even one or two people will get a -7. -12 is essentially impossible and likely a glitch, but certainly fair to report for cheating so that it is investigated.
That's exactly why i'll never point my fingers at somebody shooting -5, or even -6 or -7 for that matter. I KNOW there's people capable of hitting -5 in an avg 4-hole tournament (1xpar3, 2xpar4, 1xpar5) rather consistently, and 100% legit. -6 and even -7 is those players being lucky, or as you mentioned there being a short par4 in between and them being lucky.
However if the -12 turns out to be not legit (and not glitched scoreboard as some suggest), it makes me wonder if ALL them -5 scores are legit. Obviously some are, maybe even all, but prior to this i was sure they all been legit, right now i can't be. But yea, maybe there was a glitch and that person's scores had been carried over from other events, coincidentally matching up to 1 shot per hole.
I'm still going to report, once i figure out that system because obviously it must be hard to report someone for a suspicious score in PGA Tour. Either that or i'm just too blind to follow instructions.
With regards to reporting, i'm talking about the -12 here alone, nobody else, just making sure this is understood.
