Beginner Golf FAQ

Par for the Chaos is two complete Salt Lake beginners — Stockton and Mattea — filming our way around Utah's golf courses with a custom on-screen scoreboard (the "HUD") and a deadpan robot caddie named Chip. The tagline says it best: "We have no idea what we're doing, but the graphics are incredible."

No — and that's on purpose. We haven't played most of these courses yet, so it would be dishonest to call anything "good," "bad," or rank them. These are not reviews. Each course page is a pre-round guide: the facts (par, yardage, price, signature holes) plus how two beginners plan to play it. Our real scores and the course record only appear on a page after we actually tee it up there.

We currently have beginner guides for 12 Utah courses across Salt Lake, Wasatch Back, and Southern Utah. We haven't filmed our first round yet — scorecards land on each page as we play. Start at the full course guide index.

Start cheap and close to home. The budget, low-pressure tracks we're starting on are Mick Riley Golf Course, Mountain View Golf Course, Glendale Golf Course, Meadow Brook Golf Course, and Riverbend Golf Course — short, friendly, and easy on both your nerves and your wallet. Play it forward a set of tees, treat bogey as a great score, and rack up reps before you worry about a fancier course.

It depends on the course and the time of day, but the guides list a green-fee range for each one — from cheap municipal twilight rates up to the pricier resort and destination tracks. Weekday twilight is almost always the best value. Each course guide shows that course's price range and a tee-time tip.

Definitely not — we're beginners too, and that's the whole point. If you've ever shanked one into a pond and laughed about it, you're our people. The HUD and Chip make the chaos fun to watch even when (especially when) the golf is rough.

The HUD (Heads-Up Display) is the broadcast-style overlay you see on our videos: a live course map, distances, and running stats, with our robot caddie Chip narrating. It's also the software product we're building — "Heads-Up Golf" — so other creators and courses can put the same graphics on their own footage.

Chip is our AI robot caddie — a deadpan, dry-witted voice on the broadcast who calls distances, reads the (questionable) strategy, and roasts the bad shots. He's the mascot of both the channel and the Heads-Up Golf software.

Yes — please do. We're working our way out from Old Mill Golf Course to the drivable destinations across Salt Lake, Wasatch Back, and Southern Utah. Follow along and send suggestions; the courses people most want to see get bumped up the list.