HomerJSimpson
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Well played. On the plus side with winter coming there will be less events and so you can play more social golf and get use to the new mark. You CAN play to it. Trust yourself
2) Stableford points aren't a good measure of my game. I worked this out during a bounce game when I had to play off of 6, I parred holes 6 to 11, a difficult stretch of holes, and had amassed a grand total of 13 points, somehow, those 6 pars seemed like they should be worth more than that. That was it, points are pants, I even stopped writing points on my scorecard and only recorded gross scores for a while. I stopped thinking ahead to holes where I could get 3 points and just thought about parring every one of them.
3) Once I stopped thinking about points I realised there was no point thinking about handicap. I went back to the way I used to think about golf in the early days before I knew about points, handicaps and Nett scores. The whole purpose was to shoot as low as I can.
4) You have to believe you can play to it.
Thanks guys. Just a bit of a shock really.
My par is 68, I had a great round, shot 72 for 12 under my handicap. 2 x 7's on par 4's too, so scary what it could have been..
Front 9 was 4 over (7 pars, one bogey and one treble).
Back nine level (4 birdies, 3 pars one bogey and one treble).
It wasnt spectacular though, it was just plodding along consistently, although there were a few good shots in there.