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
Wiffle golf hole is selected, the player with the fewest strokes on that hole will select the subsequent hole. As in traditional golf, players' scores are generally expressed as a number either under or over par for each hole or for the course. At the end of a game of Wiffle golf, the player with the lowest score wins. Players may use many different hitting methods in Wiffle golf. If a player misses the ball with his or her swing, the swing counts as a stroke. The most popular driving method involves throwing the ball up into the air and swinging at