Recent content by John Evans 9

I keep coming back to this topic as I’d really like to understand. There have a been a few key points made . WHS is not a new system any more. You have a handicap and you play golf just as always. There is no change to the actual playing of golf. WHS does not enable you to enjoy your game or...

I have already expressed my scepticism about this being a real problem but I’d like to understand a little more. The OP posts “Away from this forum in the real world, I have many conversations with players whose minds are still very much stuck in the old system.” How did this mindset manifest...

I remain baffled by this topic. The OP seems to have invented a golfing problem which simply doesn’t exist. At least, not in my mind.

The OP writes “Get out there, play to the best of your ability and enjoy it! The new handicapping system allows you to do this and it is very liberating.” Am I alone in thinking that this is a load of twaddle ? I’ll concede that it is well presented twaddle though.

But the player could competing with a false handicap. I’d treat him/her as a new member and have them submit 3 cards before giving them a handicap.

The WHS system was simply used to find the old data. It was the HC who decided to allocate the “old” handicap. Seems obviously wrong and unfair to the returning player. A lot can happen in a few years. I had to stop playing for three years when I was 4 handicap. When I returned I was given 25...

I have an hilarious example where the Handicap Committee have failed spectacularly. A 30 handicapper was the winner of a stableford comp with possibly a world record start to his round. Two birdies plus a hole-in-one on a par 4 , giving him 16 points for the first three holes. He was relieved of...

Yeah, that seems to be the general view but mixing it all up just doesn’t seem right to me.

I have recently joined our Dad’s Army section. There is no problem with WHS as it seems to be largely ignored. The weekly stableford is actually run as three competitions in one. 1. SF played from official whs handicaps. Less than half of the 30 or so players enter this. 2. Every players SF...

I thought the tampon joke was pretty feeble but I’m might try a variation in tomorrow’s stableford. I’ll give it to the one who scores the first blob. Period.

The best I’ve heard of is a 59 at Silloth. No eagles, no dropped shots, just 12 birdies.

Outside of formal competitions the norm at my club is 4BBB. So anyone submitting a GP score is usually part of a 4BBB match and I wondered if this is OK under WHS. We’ve had hundreds ,perhaps thousands, of GP cards submitted under these circumstances.

I suspect that most GP cards are submitted when playing a friendly 4BBB. Is this really allowed under WHS ?

A stand-up chameleon, perhaps.

If you are on your own and the course is clear then obviously no problem. But if you book a tee slot and others join you then I imagine they would be extremely irritated. Don’t you have a practice ground ?