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10-03-2012, 03:54 PM #1851
I love golf... unfortunately its $130 a round where I live and the cheaper courses are 45min-2 hours away. My one round this year was a solid 108. I count it all. Never understood the cheaters. Cracks me up. If I shoot an 11 write me down for an 11. The way I golf I will birdie par the next two anyways.
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10-03-2012, 05:42 PM #1852
Handicaps allow competition between golfers that are decided based on how well they played that day compared to their average and (how un-American) luck. In the "casual" (i.e. anything less than a district championship) competitions I am familiar with, the matches are played at 80% of your given handicap to further equal the competition. If you're not breaking 100 and want to get better, you really shouldn't be keeping score of your strokes, you should be counting your mishits and trying to reduce that number IMO. What I did.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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10-03-2012, 05:50 PM #1853Handicaps allow competition between golfers that are decided based on how well they played that day compared to their average and (how un-American) luck. In the "casual" (i.e. anything less than a district championship) competitions I am familiar with, the matches are played at 80% of your given handicap to further equal the competition. If you're not breaking 100 and want to get better, you really shouldn't be keeping score of your strokes, you should be counting your mishits and trying to reduce that number IMO. What I did.
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10-03-2012, 05:55 PM #1854Been there, skied that.
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I just started lessons again a few weeks ago and my swing is better than ever, can't wait to take that swing out of the golf course !
(posters note: I live in Houston which is 95 degrees and 95% humidity from june thru septtember, so i usually dont play golf after memorial day unless someone else wants to pay my green fees)TGR forums cannot handle SkiCougar !
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10-03-2012, 06:27 PM #1855
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10-03-2012, 06:31 PM #1856
Noice!^^. I will be sporting my raingear tomorrow like I have all week.
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10-03-2012, 06:56 PM #1857Good-lookin' wool
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10-03-2012, 08:17 PM #1858
I couldn't disagree more...the handicap is how you are playing right now, based on your last x scores (depending how many you have recorded). I have buddies that don't get out much, I have buddies that are near scratch, and I have buddies that just aren't good. We can go out based on our handicaps, and have a legit betting day...all even-Steven.
Another example, my wife...she is 5'0, 85lbs...she just started to play for real this year. I don't know if she will ever be long, but she is pure 160 down the center. She has a 36+ handicap right now, and she tries to beat me every round based on handicap...if all we were doing was going out, i shoot 85 she shoots 110, what fun is that? With handicap, she can beat me...
At any rate, I just don't get mullies, etc...it hurts you in tourneys that use it, or in betting scenarios. Respect for counting every stroke and penalty and what not.
On another note, after my 77 on Sunday in my club championship, I just went out, played the tips and went massive with a 94. Hit 88% of fairways, but was just gross with irons and chipping (38 putts didn't help). That score will be posted, but will not factor into my index...lolz."I do look like the Arrow shirt man, I did lace up my skates professionally, and I did do a fabulous job finishing my muffin."
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10-03-2012, 08:24 PM #1859
Cranked...I know what they are for. See my resonse to Wooley.
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10-03-2012, 08:28 PM #1860On another note, after my 77 on Sunday in my club championship, I just went out, played the tips and went massive with a 94. Hit 88% of fairways, but was just gross with irons and chipping (38 putts didn't help). That score will be posted, but will not factor into my index...lolz.
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10-03-2012, 08:30 PM #1861
I strung together my first ever 9 holes without anything worse than a bogey tonight. Shot a 42, which ties my best score ever. For me not having a single blow up hole is a big deal, wish I could have made the turn as I feel like I had a legit shot at breaking 90 for the first time ever.
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10-03-2012, 08:36 PM #1862
Fact.
EDIT: Club Championships are without handicaps...you win that shit straight up...best golfer wins. Member/Guests use handicaps so humps can play and everyone is even. Member/Guests are about getting hammered, not throwing darts...hence the need for the handi. I played a 9 blacked out in one this year...good times."I do look like the Arrow shirt man, I did lace up my skates professionally, and I did do a fabulous job finishing my muffin."
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10-03-2012, 08:36 PM #1863
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10-03-2012, 08:46 PM #1864Good-lookin' wool
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10-03-2012, 09:00 PM #1865
One spot where I think a little rule flexibility is ok is the first tee box. If you haven't had a proper warm up or had to rush from work or just aren't quite ready to play a mulligan drive is reasonable. It's just no fun to trash your round on the first shot of the day. Even the most strict men's club I know allows a mully on the first tee.
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10-03-2012, 09:02 PM #1866"I do look like the Arrow shirt man, I did lace up my skates professionally, and I did do a fabulous job finishing my muffin."
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10-03-2012, 09:03 PM #1867
Sweet 36 philth. Congrats and it is sweet to meet goals in golf.
Sandbaggers are assholes. Many guys at most clubs just accept people are going to do it.Terje was right.
"We're all kooks to somebody else." -Shelby Menzel
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10-03-2012, 09:05 PM #1868
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10-03-2012, 09:06 PM #1869
It was insinuated I was a sandbagger in a member/guest earlier this year...this is the problem. I count everything...everything. I can get hot, but I also have a quad in there and several dubs per round...
I think a lot of times, people look at others as sandbaggers, when they are just honest. The people that look at others as sandbaggers, take mullies, big gimmies, improve their lies, etc...this is my theory. I have been on the good side of the handicap for my last few tourneys, so this is subject to change as it normalizes.
Tanqueray=party."I do look like the Arrow shirt man, I did lace up my skates professionally, and I did do a fabulous job finishing my muffin."
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10-03-2012, 09:07 PM #1870
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10-03-2012, 09:10 PM #1872
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10-03-2012, 09:17 PM #1875
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