Anyone else hitting form at the worst time?

[Kellfire]

Comps have ended and I ended my first season as a club member without making my mark on any proper competitions (bar making the medal final where I finished middle of the pack) and getting a 23 handicap. Since the end of the summer season I've shot over 40 points four times and have hit about seven birdies in as many rounds. Given that I'm now playing in heavy, windier conditions it can only mean I've hit some real form but it feels like it counts for nothing!

Is it the lack of pressure because there are no competitions anymore? I hope not. I want to carry this form into next season and drop that handicap right at the start.

 

[USER1999]

Certainly not a problem I am familiar with.

 

[BTatHome]

the complete opposite for me, season finished and i can hit a barn door.

won the first 2 qualifiers of this year, so hoping to keep going thru winter and come out running again in march

 

[Imurg]

I had my purple patch in Late Summer/Early Autumn.
I seemed to start playing at a new level almost overnight.
Now regularly shooting low-mid 70's.
Yesterday, although I beat the others, I came in with 30 points (81 gross) - a bad day at the office.
But 3 months ago I wouldn't have been too upset with a score like that.

Daft game....

 

[RichardC]

Wish I had a chance to play at the minute. Work has me tied up all week at the moment.

 

[DaveM]

Form????? Whats THAT!!!!!!!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Peaked at FoA and don't know my A from E since. Another shocker today with a dose of the fats on all my irons and a huge array of multi directional bloopers. Hard to be positive when you don't know if you are scaring the punters on the fairway to the right or heading OB left

 

[golfsaint]

Fine for me joined my first club end of oct, entered three comps and won all three !!! but have now had handicap cut from 24 to 17 !( to be honest should maybe a bit lower lets see how i get on tomorrow

 

[rosecott]

Fine for me joined my first club end of oct, entered three comps and won all three !!! but have now had handicap cut from 24 to 17 !( to be honest should maybe a bit lower lets see how i get on tomorrow

Your handicap committee should be up before the magistrates. Your initial allocation must have been so, so wrong - one month after allocation you have entered and won 3 comps and been cut by 7 shots. Come on - something's not right.

 

[Imurg]

Your handicap committee should be up before the magistrates. Your initial allocation must have been so, so wrong - one month after allocation you have entered and won 3 comps and been cut by 7 shots. Come on - something's not right.

This is exactly what Fergus was going on about in GM last month. You put 3 cards in - are they good cards (for you) or bad cards...?
You can only put in what you've scored.
Hopefully everyone would try their best but if you go for a handicap card and have 3 stinkers what are they supposed to do?
They can'tgive you a lower handicap just because the 3 cards you put in were poor rounds - how do they know your real standard..?

 

[rosecott]

This is exactly what Fergus was going on about in GM last month. You put 3 cards in - are they good cards (for you) or bad cards...?
You can only put in what you've scored.
Hopefully everyone would try their best but if you go for a handicap card and have 3 stinkers what are they supposed to do?
They can'tgive you a lower handicap just because the 3 cards you put in were poor rounds - how do they know your real standard..?

The handicap committee have to do more than just accept 3 cards being submitted. The player has to be asked about his playing history - how long, where etc.. If the answers and the scorecards don't tie up, then he should be invited to have a round with an experienced committee member - many clubs do this as a routine on initial allocations.

I know that everyone can have a sudden purple patch - but 1 month after allocation, 3 comp entries, 3 wins, 7 shot cut, that's more purple than purple.

 

[Kellfire]

On a round where I shot 32 points a well established and respected member at my course told me it was a joke that I received two shots at any hole. He made this comment at a 115 yard par three.

Needless to say I hated playing the rest of that round.

 

[Imurg]

The handicap committee have to do more than just accept 3 cards being submitted. The player has to be asked about his playing history - how long, where etc.. If the answers and the scorecards don't tie up, then he should be invited to have a round with an experienced committee member - many clubs do this as a routine on initial allocations.

I know that everyone can have a sudden purple patch - but 1 month after allocation, 3 comp entries, 3 wins, 7 shot cut, that's more purple than purple.

Point taken but if you have no History, if you've not played that much but have a natural aptitude for ball games and you've once gone round in 85 but normally it's nearer the 100. Then you put in cards of 99, 100 and 98.
With no real History to divulge - " I've broken 90 once" - then you're going to get 26 or thereabouts.

It would be interesting to find out how many of us were "interviewed" by the Handicap Sec prior to getting their 1st handicap.

I know I wasn't.

 

[Kellfire]

I wasn't.

 

[Karl102]

Nope........ I wish I had this problem........

 

[trevor]

I put my first ever 3 cards in for a h/c last week at my new club which they accepted and gave me my h/c. No questions, they just presumed I suppose that I have been honest. Nobody knew that they could have been my 3 worst cards or my 3 best or even how many games I had played and then handed in the ones I had picked out. Sometimes you just have to trust people.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I put my first ever 3 cards in for a h/c last week at my new club which they accepted and gave me my h/c. No questions, they just presumed I suppose that I have been honest. Nobody knew that they could have been my 3 worst cards or my 3 best or even how many games I had played and then handed in the ones I had picked out. Sometimes you just have to trust people.

Which club are you at?

 

[RGDave]

I'm playing great.....

no great surprise, the course is about 1,000 yards shorter.

played 9 today....1 birdie, 2 bogeys, 6 pars.....I make that 1 over....

 

[SocketRocket]

I agree with the comment that new players should play a round with an experienced member before a handicap is allocated.

I get miffed by the number of new members that win club competitions playing off mid to high 20 handicaps and come in with 40+ points. Its very demotivating for existing members playing off a realistic handicap and being beat on countback by a new 28 handicapper. After their handicaps have been sorted they dont win anything else.

I was in a club once where a new 16 year old junior played in a club comp off a handicap of around 54 and playing off the red tees. He won the competition even though he was nowhere near competent. It was a mockery of the handicap system.

 

[wull]

when i put my 3 cards in at the start of this season,obviously i was asked about my playing history as a junior and this played a major role in the handicap i was allocated.

but something else they looked at was not just the 3 cards as a whole but how i performed on the front 9/back 9 etc and it made sense.i obvioulsy played some howlers but i managed a few good scores on either the front 9 or back 9 on a few of the cards and this made a difference.

as for my form it's about the same as it was towards the end of the season,hopefully it continues.