Recent content by Jacraido

Well played! If you played with me and you wanted to get your handicap down we would sit in the bar afterwards, agree your scores each hole( as long as you holed out each time - no gimmees!),fill in a card against the course played e.g. yellows, sign and countersign it and submit it to the...

In the olden days when I was learning "The Etiquette" the rule was that a single player "has no standing on the course". I suppose you either hope 1-3 players catch up with you and you join up to achieve overtaking status. But do you really want to spend your time wading through a Society field...

Just another example of the unpredictability of our current handicap system which removes control from the player and places it in the hands of Bill Gates(Handicap - ?) and the EGU and CONGU and the software programmers. I only want, at my age, to play off less than 10. It's not much to ask but...

I asked the EGU why I had carded the same score at the same handicap as a fellow member but not been cut like him. On the basis of this response maybe we should make all comps Stableford and do away with the professional-like pressure of medal play - dumbing down comes to golf! "Craig A...

If it blows a gale you then have to adjust your technique to compensate - punch shots, stance,closed face etc - or don't play if you don't want to risk getting 0.1 back. My objection to SSS is that it is based on the mythical performance of a scratch player over my course. 1.Scratch players are...

As a first time user of this forum I'll apologise in advance if this subject has been beaten to death already BUT can anyone explain logically why there is any need for the SSS and CSS? At the age of 60, having started playing at about 5 years old, lowest handicap 3 at 19, my sole aim, apart...