People with joint interests in social media and golf will know golf fans live on the edge of self-combustion.
Rules controversy. Slow play. Both you and I see red about nit-picky things in the game, and The Open Championship has provided another example of this.
I’d tend to sympathise with the latest mass frustration, though, and it concerns the colours that denote different scores on the digital scoreboard on our screens of the coverage at Royal Troon.
A birdie score is usually surrounded by a square of red. If you’re under par, you’re in the red. That’s a gimme. And usually, if a par is scored, it’s surrounded by a somewhat dull colour, maybe grey, or even no colour at all.
A bogey would be light blue. This is a convention cemented in the minds of golf lovers, which is why there has been uproar in some quarters.
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The Open TV leaderboard is proving difficult to cope with for some fans…
Golf’s oldest major has sent our brains into a spin, not knowing whether to turn the action off and eradicate it from memory, or battle on despite our eyes never seeing such horrors.
The colour blue is being used to represent pars. I’ll allow you a minute or two to compute that.
Once you’ve finished rubbing your eyes, look at the post above on X (formerly Twitter) from five-time DP World Tour winner Ross Fisher who has included an image of The Open scoreboard and seemingly can’t comprehend the colour scheme either.
In a reply to a post from No Laying Up, Fisher said he looked at Matt Wallace’s scorecard in the image above and assumed, “no pars and 1 over par.”
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