Avoiding comps
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We are similar. Best overall net. But we have three divisions so two other net winners plus Best Gross.
Personally I consider the last of those to be the winner but then I have scant regard for handicaps in general.
Despite never being lower than 12 myself I just find the concept of the player taking the fewest strokes not being the winner to be strange and I have been playing for over 50 years.
Tashyboy
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A 35 handicapper won today’s at our place. With 2 single figure handicappers in the top 20. With one in the top 10.A 14 handicap won our stableford this weekend with 41 points, a 4 handicap was 2nd on countback.
#just saying
Tashyboy
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Just outta interest CC. Because I don’t know the Answer, but in todays comp we had four divisions with both men and women in the divisions.
But before WHS. We had white tees, yellow tees for seniors and red tees for women. Do all clubs now Chuck everyone in the same comp.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
But even in that scenario you know who got the most points and therefore who actually won don't you?
PJ87
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Don't come here confusing the subject with logic Olly
Mandofred
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The club I'm at here in Harrogate is thinking about changing next months medal and letting people play from whatever tee they want. I kind of like the idea.....the shorter hitters won't have to worry about hitting from a good bit further back. I could see it causing some slow down though.....when medals are usually slow enough. Having people in the group teeing off from different tees would seem to be slower......maybe not.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
By the end of this month I will have played 10 rounds of golf at my club.
9 of them have been club comps.
7 individual hcap qualifying. (7th one is tomorrow)
1 members only AmAm.
First round of club hcap knockout. This is two days time. Have not entered this for several years. I get cheesed off giving 11 shots to someone 30 years younger who can outdrive me.
I play comps to try and get my handicap down. I've always had that attitude. I just want to be good/better. That's always been my motivation.
I never put in general play rounds. They don't let us play off the whites/back tees - competition only tees they say.
I find the yellow tees much harder - all the seniors comps are off the yellows. Have to be two shots lower to achieve about the same score differential.
I like the weekday medals. I play fairly early with all the other retired gadgies.
Pace of play is far quicker than late in the day when the younger chaps play - all that faffing around that they do, trying to copy what the pros do - comical but slow.
9 of them have been club comps.
7 individual hcap qualifying. (7th one is tomorrow)
1 members only AmAm.
First round of club hcap knockout. This is two days time. Have not entered this for several years. I get cheesed off giving 11 shots to someone 30 years younger who can outdrive me.
I play comps to try and get my handicap down. I've always had that attitude. I just want to be good/better. That's always been my motivation.
I never put in general play rounds. They don't let us play off the whites/back tees - competition only tees they say.
I find the yellow tees much harder - all the seniors comps are off the yellows. Have to be two shots lower to achieve about the same score differential.
I like the weekday medals. I play fairly early with all the other retired gadgies.
Pace of play is far quicker than late in the day when the younger chaps play - all that faffing around that they do, trying to copy what the pros do - comical but slow.
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KenL
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Different divisions but only one medal winner.
Neilds
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Won’t make a lot of difference, bet most just use the usual tees
Arthur Wedge
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Who got the most points in each division of the competition
A medal is given out to the winner of each division
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
No divisions at ours.
Lowest gross prize every comp.
2s sweeps prove fairly lucrative for me through the course of the year.
No lowest gross prize in the seniors comps
, but the 2s sweep is even better for me 
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Lowest gross prize every comp.
2s sweeps prove fairly lucrative for me through the course of the year.
No lowest gross prize in the seniors comps
, but the 2s sweep is even better for me .
As long as people are on it, treat it as ready golf then it shouldn't slow things down. Certainly not as much as someone struggling off the back tees, having to take more shots.
If they do allow it, post back on how it went. Interesting stuff.
Rlburnside
Challenge Tour Pro
No divisions at ours, 3hc won medal with net 69 only player under par. Windy day that was a good round.
I will always play any comps I am available for. Most are 2 divisions unless its a board event. I am not fussed about winning, but I just try and play as well as I can and see what happens to my handicap. Can't do anything about a fellow player having a "day out" and shooting a silly low score
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
I fully understand the conclusion some people have arrived at to avoid comps.
A few of our lowest chaps have gone to the PMG (play more golf) membership.
Saves them a lot of money, no voting rights, can't play in club team matches or board comps.
They play in our weekly weekday medal and are still eligible to represent the county in matches and enter county comps and opens.
A few of our lowest chaps have gone to the PMG (play more golf) membership.
Saves them a lot of money, no voting rights, can't play in club team matches or board comps.
They play in our weekly weekday medal and are still eligible to represent the county in matches and enter county comps and opens.
2blue
Journeyman Pro
We've had mixed tee Comps for years & not found that it slows things down. It's usually the young low figer guys who slow things down taking ages on the greens.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Never mind all the kerfuffle over handicaps, my cousin told me that at his place comps are a fiver (£5). Nutz to that.
Arthur Wedge
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It’s a £5 for our board comps , £4 for all the others
jim8flog
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A 14 handicap won our stableford this weekend with 41 points, a 4 handicap was 2nd on countback.
#just saying
In our Saturday comps a 4 handicapper would not be competing against a 14 hcp for prize money.
If there is a trophy involved doubt that the 14 hcper would have won it anyway
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