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
Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics The 1900 Summer Olympics took place in Paris, France, and was the first time ever that golf debuted in the Olympics. There were four countries that participated in golf; which included Great Britain, France, Greece and the United States. Two golf events were contested, individual events for men and women. As with most other events in the 1900 Olympics, few, if any, of the competitors had any idea that they were competing in an Olympic Games. The men's division consisted of a 36-hole stroke play tournament, while the women's division consisted of only a