SteveW86
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No it doesnt, just means you dont use a handicap system to decide the winners
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No it doesnt, just means you dont use a handicap system to decide the winners
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Well it would remove the Stableford ones because what would be the point of that without handicaps? 30 handicapper playing off scratch is going to chuck in about 15 blobs.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Ok here's one: No truly great putter has ever used any non-standard grip (i.e. claw, left below right, broomhandle, etc).
SteveW86
Head Pro
I'm being a bit tongue in cheek as I have no expectations that the handicap system would be scrapped, I'm just not a fan of the fact the best player on the day doesnt win the competition.
Golf is about far more than what score you shoot anyway, playing with new people, having a laugh on the course and a beer afterwards are equally important.
SteveW86
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There wouldnt have to be less comps, just the format would always be lowest score wins.
Theres an argument that anyone who is below an index of about 8 is always playing it as a medal anyway.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I do agree but I also like how it is now - handicaps are what make the game what it is in some respects. Hence why I'd stick a gross prize and a nett prize on all the board comps, say. Or at least one a month!
RichA
Well-known member
Which would be fabulous for you good, low handicap guys for a few weeks.
Then the really good, scratch golfers would realise what's going on and start turning up to win everything.
Then the low handicap golfers would start clamouring for some kind of system that makes it more fair for them.
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Except for Spieth at his best, True
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
you missed the best one out......fragger
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F or F: Both Nicklaus and Tiger were lucky when their careers fell. They both played between 2 great generations (one aging and one too young), and thus won more than they might have in the earlier or later generations.
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
Fact. But it’s not a bad thing to be lucky and it doesn’t mean they weren’t also the most skilled at the time. To be the best at anything you have to know where you’re going to find and capitalise on luck.
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
F or F? A ball goes further when it’s hit with a draw.
Fallacy. You can make some argument for any of the top multi major winners.
Nelson won against weak fields.
Palmer won before the TV golf boom.
Sarazen won a major before it even was one.
Watson won when Nicklaus was fading out, and apart from Seve, there wasnt really any other multi major winning level golfers for over a decade.
Etc.
Fallacy.
sjw
Well-known member
I'm going to have to go with fact on this one - not sure about carry, but I feel like if I hit a draw (*cough* hook *cough*) it will bounce and roll out further for more distance (and hence I miss further left than right)
Too imprecise to be either a fact or fallacy.
Is the comparison corrected for loft ? Dynamic loft ? Included roll out or not ? If including, what are the ground conditions ?
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Putting is more important than driving?
Pulls pin, throws grenade and stands back
Pulls pin, throws grenade and stands back
Fallacy. Thank handgrenade was fully defused long ago.Putting is more important than driving?
Pulls pin, throws grenade and stands back
GB72
Money List Winner
Putting is more important than driving?
Pulls pin, throws grenade and stands back
Fallacy, a bad putt costs me one shot, a bad drive can cost me far more.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Nurse...he's missed his Meds again......
