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
Hal's Hole in One Golf Hal's Hole in One Golf HAL's Hole in One Golf, known in Japan as , is a Super NES video game that was released in 1991. During the mid-1980s, various "Hole in One" video games were released in Japan by HAL Laboratory for the NEC PC88 and MSX. The Super Famicom version can be considered as the sequel to the Family Computer video game "Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional" released in 1988. It was named after legendary Japanese golfer Jumbo Ozaki, who has played golf on a professional basis since 1973. The game is essentially a standard 18-hole