# How to break 85 in golf

Breaking 85 is bogey golf minus six: six pars and twelve bogeys, or seven pars, ten bogeys and one double. It is the target where pars from approach play matter as much as the removal of blowups. On the benchmark model a 84 is 13 strokes over the tour average, and 8.5 of them sit in the long game.

## Key figures

- A 84 on a par 72: 6 pars and 12 bogeys with no doubles, or 12 pars, 0 bogeys and 6 doubles at the other end of the table.
- From 150 yards in the fairway an approach to 10 feet is worth 0.32 strokes against the tour average; a tee shot out of bounds costs 2.05.

## Scope

- Compositions are arithmetic on a par 72 with pars, bogeys and doubles; the shot values are the published tour baseline and the benchmark model’s split by handicap.

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