Alright, let’s talk about that golf thingy, the 2023 Masters. You wanna know how many pars they made, huh? Well, it ain’t as simple as countin’ beans, lemme tell ya. But I’ll try my best to make sense of it, just like I’d explain it to my neighbor, Bessie.
First off, they had a whole bunch of them golf fellas playin’, see? Eighty-nine of ’em for the first two days, then fifty for Saturday and Sunday. That’s a lot of golfin’, yup. And each of them holes, they got a number they’re supposed to hit, a “par” they call it.
Now, someone with a fancy calculator figured out there were over five thousand chances for a par. 5,004 to be exact. That’s a lot of times them fellas coulda just… you know… done what they were supposed to. But golf ain’t that easy, no sir.
So, how many times did they actually make par? Well, they say it was around 3029 times. Yep, over three thousand times them golf balls went right where they was supposed to. That’s a fair bit, wouldn’t ya say?
- They had 93 players playing at least one round.
- They played four days of golf.
- They made a bunch of birdies too, over 880 of ‘em, even more than last year, they say.
But this whole par thing, it ain’t the only thing they count, see? They also count these birdies, which is when they do better than par, and then there’s worse stuff too, like bogeys and such, but we ain’t talkin’ ‘bout them today.
This Masters thing, it’s a big deal. They say it was the 87th time they did it. Happened in April, just when the weather was gettin’ nice. They played in a place called Augusta, some fancy golf club.
Think about it like this: you plant a whole field of corn, right? And you hope every stalk grows tall and strong. But some don’t, some get eaten by bugs, and some just don’t make it. Pars are like them good corn stalks, the ones that do what they’re supposed to. And in 2023, they had a pretty good crop of pars, over three thousand of ‘em.
They also said something about only 54 of them golfers makin’ the cut. That means only them 54 got to play all four days. The rest, well, they got sent home early, but they still got a little bit of money, which is nice, I guess. Even if you don’t grow the best corn, you still get somethin’ for your trouble, right?
So, to sum it up, them golfers made over 3029 pars in the 2023 Masters. That’s a lot of hittin’ the ball just right, wouldn’t ya say? More than half the time, they did what they was supposed to. And that ain’t bad, not bad at all.
And that winner, he got a whole heap of money. More than I’d ever see in my lifetime, that’s for sure. But even the fellas who didn’t win, they still got paid somethin’. It’s like sellin’ your corn, some folks get more, some get less, but everyone gets a little somethin’. That’s fair, I reckon.
Now, I ain’t no golf expert, mind you. I’m just tellin’ you what I heard and what I could make sense of. But them numbers, they’re somethin’ else, ain’t they? Over three thousand pars. That’s a lot of good golfin’, even for a simple gal like me to understand.
They got these fancy leaderboards and stroke things they talk about too, but that’s gettin’ too complicated for me. All I know is, they hit that ball a whole bunch of times, and over three thousand times, it went just where they wanted it to. And that’s good enough for me.
And there were no hole-in-ones this year, they said. Last time that happened was back in 2022. Guess them hole-in-ones are like findin’ a four-leaf clover, rare and lucky.
Anyway, that’s the story of the pars at the 2023 Masters, as best as I can tell it. A whole lotta golfin’, a whole lotta pars, and a whole lotta money for them fellas who can hit that little white ball just right. It ain’t easy, but they sure make it look fun sometimes.
