Popular Target Archery Rounds in the UK

Target Archery

Target archery is the most popular discipline of archery and is in the Olympic Games,archers shoot at colour scoring zones on the target and the distances are dictated by the archery rounds to be shot.
In the UK the traditional rounds score six arrows and are scored using the five zone scoring system i.e. scoring from the centre of the target outwards in odd numbers starting with the highest scoring arrows first and are called out and scored three at a time e.g. 999 pause 777

Traditional archery Scoring in the UK

Gold  scores 9 points
Red   scores 7 points
Blue  scores 5 points
Black scores 3 points
White scores 1 point
A typical traditional archery round for gents in the UK is the York round with three distances of 100yd. (6 dozen arrows) 80yd (4 dozen arrows)and 60yd (2 dozen arrows)
A typical traditional ladies round is the Hereord Round with three distances of 80yd (6 dozen arrows) 60yd (4 dozen arrows) 50yd (2 dozen arrows)