Golf scores (scoring an "even" in stroke play will always give a Stableford score of 36), discouraging the tendency to abandon the entire game after playing a particularly bad hole (a novice playing by strict rules may score as high as an 8 or 10 on a single difficult hole; their Stableford score for the hole would be zero, which puts them only two points behind par no matter how badly they played), and the ability to simply pick up one's ball once it is impossible to score any points for the hole, which speeds play. The USGA and R&A sanction
Derek Hole Provost of Leicester Cathedral - a post he held for 7 years. Derek Hole The Very Rev Derek Norman Hole was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century. Born on 5 December 1933, he was educated at Public Central School, Plymouth and prepared for ordination at Lincoln Theological College. He began his career as Curate at St Mary Magdalen, Knighton, Leicester after which he was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Cape Town. After a further curacy at St Nicholas, Kenilworth he was Rector of St Mary the Virgin, Burton Latimer. From 1973 to 1992