Plan the score you actually want to shoot

Course par is designed around scratch golf. Your scoring goal probably is not. If you are trying to break 100, a bogey can be a good score and a double bogey can be completely on plan. OKBogey turns the total you want to shoot into a realistic Target Par for every hole.

Pick a course and tee set, choose the score you want to beat, and OKBogey distributes the extra shots using hole par and Stroke Index. Instead of asking whether you are over or under traditional par, you can see whether the round is on track for your target.

What Target Par changes

Suppose a par 4 is assigned a Target Par of 6 for your round. A score of 6 is level against the plan, 5 is one under and 7 is one over. The scorecard number has not changed; the context has.

Example: you are trying to shoot 99. On a difficult par 4 your target is 6. You hit trouble from the tee, recover safely and make 6. Traditional scoring says double bogey; OKBogey says you completed the hole exactly as the overall 99 plan allowed.

Why this can help course management

Many high-handicap rounds are damaged less by ordinary bogeys than by a few very large numbers. If Target Par gives you enough room to take three or four controlled shots to reach the green or get greenside, driver is not automatically required. Equally, if driver gives you the best route to the target, use it. The plan gives context rather than a blanket club rule.

An ugly gross score can also be less damaging than it feels. An 8 on a Target Par 7 is still recorded as 8, but it has cost only one shot against the round plan. That is a reason to reset, not chase three shots on the next tee.

Learn your own difficult holes with OKBogey+

After you have played the same tee set enough times, OKBogey+ can use your Personal Stroke Index. Your previous scoring ranks the holes by how difficult they have been for you, allowing future Target Par allocations to reflect your own scoring pattern rather than relying only on the course's official Stroke Index.

Golf scoring and course-management guides

The public guides explain the thinking behind target-based golf and are available without signing in.