Cultural differences.

[User20205]

There is another difference, there multiple opens "up here" and all usually with various sections for all handicaps.

There are exceptions to this, ferndown being one, they have a decent option for under 18 handicaps in their open week but it is stableford!!! Does that count?
But normally it’s scratch opens balloted out around 5 on a decent course, maybe lower.
Or, Vets open & mixed better ball, Texas scramble, bow maker or some other tenuous format!!

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Most opens near me tend to be team events. There aren’t many single opens for me to play in. The scratch ones get balloted out lower than my 7 handicap on any course worth visiting & there aren’t many at weekends, but that may be my limited experience

Ours is always on a Saturday, and it's individual medal/strokeplay (if you lot down there are different to us lot up here!!) 😉😂😂

I would say come up and play in it, but not sure my place will live up to your very high standards!! 😉😂😂

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You have a point there!!!😉😂😂

What is real golf? read Harry Vardon and you will find that he thought fourball golf to be almost an abomination - something Americans do that takes far, far too long and isn't really what golf is about.

Times change

Mixed Foursomes gets a big A++ from me - a pleasant but rather difficult challenge for both partners as they struggle to cope with the differences in each others games and thinking.

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Ours is always on a Saturday, and it's individual medal/strokeplay (if you lot down there are different to us lot up here!!) 😉😂😂

I would say come up and play in it, but not sure my place will live up to your very high standards!! 😉😂😂

Forgot to say that handicap limit is 18 and there's 3 categories for the prizes so everyone in with a chance.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

There are exceptions to this, ferndown being one, they have a decent option for under 18 handicaps in their open week but it is stableford!!! Does that count?
But normally it’s scratch opens balloted out around 5 on a decent course, maybe lower.
Or, Vets open & mixed better ball, Texas scramble, bow maker or some other tenuous format!!

There are a few scratch opens around here plus a few HC ones - there is always something to suit what sort of golf you want to play. 3 man team one seems popular

 

[USER1999]

Our open used to be medal, and ballotted out around a 3 handicap.

We canned it. It was just another Saturday when you couldn't play your own golf course.

 

[User20205]

Our open used to be medal, and ballotted out around a 3 handicap.

We canned it. It was just another Saturday when you couldn't play your own golf course.

We’ve got one, a double header with stoneham, it gets balloted out about 5. I did think about it as a target to set myself to play in it, but it’s a long weekend of golf for x2 +0.1s

 

[User20205]

What is real golf? read Harry Vardon and you will find that he thought fourball golf to be almost an abomination - something Americans do that takes far, far too long and isn't really what golf is about.

Times change

Mixed Foursomes gets a big A++ from me - a pleasant but rather difficult challenge for both partners as they struggle to cope with the differences in each others games and thinking.

I may play in our mixed knockout next year if I can find a partner, just for the experience.
My criteria is between 25-55, lower than 18, with all her own teeth. I may struggle to find one

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Whether as a Scot I use 'stay' rather than 'live' is - I suggest - outwith the scope of this discussion...

 

[Deleted member 1418]

What is real golf? read Harry Vardon and you will find that he thought fourball golf to be almost an abomination - something Americans do that takes far, far too long and isn't really what golf is about.

Times change

Mixed Foursomes gets a big A++ from me - a pleasant but rather difficult challenge for both partners as they struggle to cope with the differences in each others games and thinking.

Yep - times have changed............and obviously not for the better...........!!

I'm playing in a mixed Greensome Sunday week - looking forward to it.

 

[williamalex1]

I don't understand what you mean by 'up here' and 'down there'.

I come from the Scottish central belt, does that make me up or down?

The grand ole Duke of York

 

[SaintHacker]

Remind me of your handicap again.

18. Surprised you need to keep asking, it's clear enough in my signature.

 

[User101]

The grand ole Duke of York

:rofl:

 

[Jamesbrown]

Stableford is strokeplay whenever you are

There is either Matchplay or Strokeplay -

Medal and Stableford are two forms of strokeplay

And then the rest of the statement is full of generics which are false - some clubs will have Stablefords as a main way of playing but some clubs will have medal - there is no set format at clubs below the wall

This.

Handicaps based on Stableford what ever form of strokeplay.
You just can’t NR a hole in Medal if you want to win the comp.
I always play with a Stableford mind because I want a cut. Don’t care much for a voucher.

Why are Scots always angry?

 

[CliveW]

Why are Scots always angry?

Because we have to put up with Sturgeon & Co banging on about referendums at every opportunity even though the majority of Scots voted against independence and Brexit wasn't a Scottish issue, but a UK one.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Because we have to put up with Sturgeon & Co banging on about referendums at every opportunity even though the majority of Scots voted against independence and Brexit wasn't a Scottish issue, but a UK one.

Ah - don't you actually mean Unionists banging on about what they'd like Sturgeon to be banging on about - when in fact she only really talks about it these days when questioned about it. Well that's the impression I get from 'down here' - and that's truly 'down here' as I stay in Surrey

 

[SatchFan]

I played 18 holes this morning and my scratch score was gross.

 

[DCB]

And your "messages" are what you get at the shops

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

And your "messages" are what you get at the shops

indeed - but perhaps not that which would require a trolley - basket only for messages IMO

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Roll ups, bounce games. Still never heard those phrases anywhere else other than on this forum.