Anyone man enough to own up to....

[Deleted member 21258]

I wouldnt put it anywhere near 99.9% - 90% if I'm being kind.

You reckon over 1 in 10 people are playing with a dodgy handicap at club level ? That would be worrying How come your reckon that, interested to hear ?

I think I could only think of 1 or 2 people I have played with who is a member of a club/maintains a handicap, that (assuming you discount rapidly improving golfers and are dropping) I have thought their handicap must be wrong based on the way they strike/putt/chip etc.

If I included people who aren't members then quite possibly 10% as most people do not understand how handicaps are calculate(nearer best scores and you knock down bad holes)

 

[patricks148]

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how many shots was he giving you?

 

[User 99]

None, I was giving him 5.

 

[patricks148]

None, I was giving him 5.

you need to get your handicap up then

 

[User 99]

you need to get your handicap up then

That's the plan, get to 10 and clean up.

 

[patricks148]

That's the plan, get to 10 and clean up.

good plan, don't forget the trilby tour and all the other non county comps of this type... i might even see you in one of them next year

 

[Bunkermagnet]

That's the plan, get to 10 and clean up.

So since you havent answered my question, we must assume you do protect it.
Thought as much.

 

[User 99]

So since you havent answered my question, we must assume you do protect it.
Thought as much.

Remind me what your question was, I must have missed it ?

 

[User 99]

So do you, you haven’t said if you do or not?

Found it.

You may wish to read all posts in this topic to find your answer.

 

[User 99]

So since you havent answered my question, we must assume you do protect it.
Thought as much.

Actually it might be an idea to read the original post again

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

To be 100% honest - Yes.

From, and including, the weekend before our club championship I could have put in supplementary qualifying cards or played in our weekend stablefords and if I had played under my handicap I'd have been cut from 9 to 8. But I never put in 'out of comp' supplementary cards and I never play in the qualifying stableford that runs all day every Saturday and Sunday.

So Yes - I could have put in plenty of cards to try and get my handicap down, but I would have been doing something out of the ordinary for me as so I don't see that as 'protecting handicap' in quite the way I think the OP suggests. Besides - my golf was so ropey in the run up to the club champs I felt I needed all the shots I had (ah - there's me admitting to protecting my handicap)