Scoring Milestones After Breaking 80.

Welcome to the world of scoring milestones post-breaking 80.

You're making huge strides in your game and nothing can stop you from getting better.
Here's what you have to look forward to.
Which of these have you accomplished?

Did I miss anything?

• Break 160. Your club championship, your city am, your stay'n play trip. It's hard to follow up a good round with another one!
• THE PAT - like break 160, but a little harder as there's generally very few attempts offered per year. To become a PGA professional, you have to play a tournament where your scoring marker is 15 shots above the course rating x2. So your par 72, 72.0 rating course will require you to card a 159 for two rounds, full tournament stroke play.
• Shoot 75 / Good high school team golf. We always thought a good day as a team was breaking 300 (play 6, count 4 to average just under 75. Break 75 and you're likely counting in a high school golf match. 75 is much different than breaking 80 and is a significant step in your scoring abilities.
• Break par. Seemingly insurmountable, and requiring absolute precision on every shot, but really, your good just has to be a little better than your stupid. A friend playing on the Americas tour just broke par after a QUINT +5 on his first hole.
• Break 70. Your good at this point has to be a good bit better than your stupid. See above on breaking par - guy ended up shooting a -3, 69.
• Bogey free round. (For me personally, this was the hardest and was completed last of all of these milestones.

Here's where a pattern emerges in the next steps. Do it multiple days in a row in tournament.

Break 150 for two rounds in competition.

Break par for two rounds in competition.

Break 220 for three rounds. Outside the highest levels, being in the 210's for 54 holes is absolutely golfing your ball.

Break par over 4 rounds. Usually you'll be playing a state open or the like as 4 round events are rare.