Can you manually edit a hole par?

[Millertime]

Is it possible to edit the par of a hole, or is it set by length and then fixed? If it cannot be changed I'd like to see that option added.

[BonPadre]

Actually, IRL golf par is determined by distance (lenght) from tee to hole (to simplify).
So usually games about golf course design will follow same rule. Thus a fixed par setting due to distancein the game I believe.

Note that I'm very new to the game and have played yet less than an hour, but if you want to have your golfers play more stokes, then maybe add difficulties, and if you feel they play too many, then try to simplfy their life, by smoothing terrain, or making larger fairways etc.

[Millertime]

Par is not determined by distance, it's based on expected score. A 320 yard hole that is straight with fairway the entire distance might be a par 3 while the same distance with a forced lay up shot could be a par 4.
Anyway, on most games that allows you to design a course you can manually edit par. Sometimes it's more interesting to have a shorter par 4 that long hitters can go for but average players need to go a different route for example.

[Vrghr]

Seconding the request to manually adjust par. When running "test" on a hole, I can often get an average result 1-3 strokes higher than the game's calculated par for the hole. Sometimes, none of those test shots will actually match or break par.
It would be nice if we could advance the par a bit for trickier holes. Perhaps not to exceed the average "test" results to keep from going too crazy with the manual slider.

[Steven Thomas Gaming]

Yeah this was a thing with Sim Golf. It changed certain holes to lower pars when you hosted a tournament for difficulty. Would be an interesting tweak.

[Narlak]

Originally posted by SKSPlays:

Yeah this was a thing with Sim Golf. It changed certain holes to lower pars when you hosted a tournament for difficulty. Would be an interesting tweak.

Did Sim Golf let you adjust par? I've played the game quite a bit, but never saw a button to do that.

[cschock]

I do not recall any way to manually change par on SimGolf. The game did adjust pars on some shorter length holes for tournaments (and as I recall may have left them that way after) as SKSPlays says.

It is more complex than hole length in GolfTopia anyway. Since I can make holes of more or less arbitrary length that play at any par I want due to the high tech gizmos. You also have the phenomena where golfers get better over time, thus the average strokes needed on a hole should go down over time (again, this may not really be true with gizmos, better shooters might hit "nefarious" gizmos that send the ball back more reliably as the hitters get more accurate!)

[Fluid Druid]

I got a few par 6 holes that in real life would only ever be par 5. dont spose it matters though.

[Liwet]

It could be like bowling where the lanes are oiled in a way to give bowlers better scores. Maybe being able to score better than par on a hole would make golfers happier in real life, so you want the listed pars to be higher than the actual pars.

[Moosegun]

Yes you can adjust the par, go to the hole (you have to close it) and within the options you can turn off the automatic par and set it manually.

Also, par 6 hole ARE a thing in real life golf course but they are rare.