Do you submit Supplementary Scores? Why? Why not?

[delc]

I don't bother with them, because I play in at least 20 Q comps a year and my handicap is about right. Main people who seem to use them at our club are keen young players who are trying to get their handicaps down. One of my senior friends was playing well and decided to put a supplementary to get his handicap down, but played like a drain on the day and only succeeded in putting it up by 0.1. He hasn't repeated the experiment! I haven't seen any evidence of them being used for banditry purposes.

 

[garyinderry]

I've done the odd one down the years. it doesn't rouse the same buzz as it can be only you and your mates doing it.

I managed a small cut for one and a couple 0.1s.

As mentioned by others the course set up is different as they hide our pins on comp day. Greens are usually better too.

 

[duncan mackie]

Terrible practice to trick up a course for normal competitions - can see a case for the occasional 'major event' but it makes no sense otherwise and is a nightmare for the greenstuff to have to adjust the cut heights on all the equipment as well as a strain on the turf. With competitions every 3 or 4 days it doesn't make a lot of sense either!

On supplemental cards the definition and practice are consistent, and extremely simple...

Should be used when a player doesn't feel his handicap is a true reflection of his ability and he's unable to play in sufficient Q competitions (for whatever reason) to affect a change.

 

[Tommo21]

Already played 11 Q comps this year. No need for suplimentrys.

 

[Senseicads]

On the back of this supplementary card discussion, my group of friends and I only recently got our handicaps. One of them has a handicap of 27 however recently hit an 85 and a 90 gross round our place. Admittedly he also had a 109 and a 111 since then and most of his other scores have hovered around 102. He is worried that if he competes in a competition and plays to an 85 then he will smash everyone in the comp and be called a cheat or whatever...its kind of put him off entering competitions a bit to be honest. The membership secretary at our place suggested he might want to consider submitting the two lower cards for a handicap review but to be fair to the lad he is still pretty inconsistent in his scoring. What would you recommend he do? I signed his card anyway on the off chance he decides to submit, I think if he had carried on playing at a sub 90 level he would have already submitted it.

 

[garyinderry]

He can't just hand those cards in and get cut off that.

He could try a new supplementary card and get cut that way.

 

[Region3]

On the back of this supplementary card discussion, my group of friends and I only recently got our handicaps. One of them has a handicap of 27 however recently hit an 85 and a 90 gross round our place. Admittedly he also had a 109 and a 111 since then and most of his other scores have hovered around 102. He is worried that if he competes in a competition and plays to an 85 then he will smash everyone in the comp and be called a cheat or whatever...its kind of put him off entering competitions a bit to be honest. The membership secretary at our place suggested he might want to consider submitting the two lower cards for a handicap review but to be fair to the lad he is still pretty inconsistent in his scoring. What would you recommend he do? I signed his card anyway on the off chance he decides to submit, I think if he had carried on playing at a sub 90 level he would have already submitted it.

There's a world of difference knocking it round with your mates to playing in a competition.

If he's that bothered about what people would say if he won the comp by miles he could 'forget' to sign his card. DQ'd from the comp but still gets the cut.

 

[Senseicads]

Think it was more that when we got allocated our handicaps last year, the Handicap guy said that he would reassess us in the summer of this year, as we progress. Think that was why our membership sec said he should submit them for review.

 

[USER1999]

When we play comps the tees are pushed right back, the greens are cut and ironed and the pins are trickier. It sometimes feels like it is the bloomin' US Open!

Non-comp days; tees moved up, slower greens and easier pins. Off the yellows it's only 1 stroke lower SSS but it could play a lot easier than that.

This is true at my place too. The whites are pushed way forwards on non comp days, but SSS remains 72. Much easier to get a cut, but then you can't play to it off the backs.

 

[Alex1975]

I have in the past when I have not done enough comps in a year. They had to find the book and dust it off... I think the last person to sign it was 10 years before so its clearly not done much at our club.

 

[Ethan]

I think a lot depends on what you value. I am only interested in my handicap. I don't care about getting credit in the pro-shop or a trophy, so to me, I am always playing against the card anyway. My club doesn't trick up the course for comps and let it go slow and soft otherwise. Members can play off whites, or the furthest back blacks, for that matter, any time they like. CSS quite often goes up 1 shot in comps. It can't do that in a supplementary.

 

[Bigfoot]

I used to put a lot of supplementary cards in( 8 or 9 in each season). That was when there were few people playing in midweek comps and I could only play in a few due to work. Since becoming a senior, there are midweek comps and senior events - so generally one per week.

 

[patricks148]

i play a comp a week through the season so prob play around 25 plus comps a year, so no need to.

also i don't think cat1 can do sup cards.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Already play enough qualifiers over the season and when there isn't a comp on I prefer to have fun in the roll up with my mates for £3 a go.