According to the main winner, absurd way to evaluate rounds

Would you like to shoot a 70 or a 71?

What about 71 when the swing is good?

Padraig Harrington said he knows what professionals would choose.

He said: “It would definitely be happier to swing the club and shoot 71, rather than waving the club and shooting 70.

“It doesn’t make sense, but it’s the nature of the beast.”

Why? The idea is based on the idea of ​​how the player treats the form. On Tuesday, before the senior PGA championship, the three-time main champion was asked how he measured the game, and the question led to a brief back and forth way to only ask for scorecards.

Harrington said players not only take up that.

“I think we’re attracted to the form of players’ measurements,” he said, “While reality should be the progress of our scores, that’s all. So I think when you score well, you make a good decision, do the right thing, and roll in the right direction.

“When you focus on this – yes, it should be true – the form should be results-based, and that’s all. But, I think, as players, we’re attracted to judge our game by how we feel about the swing and how we control it. But scoring does matter at the end of the day.”

Still, the players “grabbed this swing game,” Harrington said.

and what you “deserve”.

“That’s your score,” Harrington said. “So we really get into the trap of always trying to judge our scores to what we think we deserve, and that’s not really relevant. That’s your rating, that’s all.”

Is the player “deserved”?

No, Harrington said.

“That’s what I mean, you’re not,” he said. “But the longer you play, the more you feel like you’re swaying well, playing well, you have some predictability on things like that, which is valuable, but I think the truth is that you shouldn’t get anything and scoring is important at the end of the day.”

Here, Harrington has another situation.

He said: “If you want to teach a kid and ask how they play, you want to hear their scores; you don’t want to hear, ‘I played well, but I have 36 putts’, but we are in the category that always tries to prove that we are doing well.

“But at the end of the day, the score is the score of golf, that’s all.”

As for other professionals? Steve Stricker was also asked about this question and was told about Harrington’s thoughts.

“I think my form is how I play, and at the time I feel about my swing, the ball goes,” Strick said. “I think if I’m very happy to see my ball go in a certain direction and it continues to move in the same direction I want to get into, then I feel like I’m in a good shape. Whether I’m playing well or not, at least this ball is doing what I want to do, and I’m happy with that.”

“But I can see where Harrington would say the score is final, and yes.

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