You can do something like this:
SET @diff = 0;
SELECT count(*) AS number_of_holes, tour_player_score.strokes -
tour_scorecard_hole.par AS overpar, IF(overpar<0,
@diff-(overpar*number_of_holes), ELSEVALUE)
FROM `tour_player_score`, tour_scorecard_hole WHERE tour_player_id=175 AND
tour_scorecard_hole.id=tour_player_score.scorecard_hole_id GROUP BY overpar;
And instead of ELSEVALUE you can insert another IF...
There is also a CASE in MySQL... you can also use that one...
What i don't see here is a DEFAULT value... do you have any ?
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Gabriel PREDA
Senior Web Developer