Golf Bandits

[duncan mackie]

Do you have Golf Bandits at your Golf Club.

according to our opponents in today's club match I am one - thank you for the compliment I said. they looked even more surprised

I play 40-50 Q rounds a year, I also play a lot of matches - inevitably I get the odd day when things go 'very right'; course conditions, greens, a bit of luck and feeling good all combine to deliver a great round. To one off opponents this can seem like an obvious bandit but reality is another thing.

 

[BTatHome]

Swanny, without him playing comps he is surely to lose his handicap come the end of the year anyway.

 

[patricks148]

There's a guy who plays at a local club to where i live.

Was off 6 or 7 for years and had won the club champs at that club 3 or more times.

He shot a very low score in a club comp and got cut to Cat 1 and was not happy and complained to no avail.

He then went out and played in every comp at the club ( 3 per week) and fitted in the odd away open and managed to get up to 12 or 13 by the end that season so i'm told.

now thats a bandit.

 

[6inchcup]

every golfer can have a great day and shoot scores that make a mockery of their h/c,some can play forever and never get their h/c down because they don't have a good technique and just enjoy playing for the fun of it ,some and i'm sorry to say KNOW their h/c is to high and deliberately keep it that way at their home club only to play at away open comps and win by a large margin and have the front to give some speel about being "the game of my life!!!!" and not report the win for their home h/c to be adjusted,those of us who have played long enough and entered comps all over the country know if a 18 h/c is having a good knock as opposed to an 18 h/capper playing shots like a 6 h/c player,last season i played in 3 comps won by players having the game of their lives and everyone who played with them said they were bandits and felt cheated.

 

[19thagain]

........ last season i played in 3 comps won by players having the game of their lives and everyone who played with them said they were bandits and felt cheated.

I now have lost all excitement for tomorrows open!

If I win I will be branded a bandit/cheat so maybe I shall have to just five putt the last two greens if the score looks good.

Golfers are a strange breed - play badly and you are a golfing bandit protecting your handicap and if you return a good score ..... your a bandit/cheat - golfers, it would seem, can never win.

 

[6inchcup]

I now have lost all excitement for tomorrows open!

If I win I will be branded a bandit/cheat so maybe I shall have to just five putt the last two greens if the score looks good.

Golfers are a strange breed - play badly and you are a golfing bandit protecting your handicap and if you return a good score ..... your a bandit/cheat - golfers, it would seem, can never win.

which group do you fall into the mid/c player who on his day can play better than his h/c states( no problem with that ) or have you deliberately played badly just to keep your h/c high to win a major comp ( cheat), you go out and play your best game to-morrow and if you win and can hold your head up and puff your chest out with pride because you won on merit take no notice of what others say.

 

[Fader]

For me people that brand others as bandits at my club tend to be the ones that are part of the so called "in crowd".

Got my first handicap last August of 19. I paid a hell of a lot for lessons, was at the range 2 x a week, and was playing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I managed to win 3 out of my first 5 competitions, only my divisional medals and a stableford plus posted a runner up in one of the winter big comps. Inevitably was branded a bandit by one the in crowd who also happened to be on the handicap commitee and got a resulting cut from 13.2 to 10.4! Supposedly based on my scores and level I should be at because of my lessons and time I put in, well that was the reason given to me.

It didn't bother me being cut like that as thats exactly the reason I put in the time and effort to come down. Since then managed to get down to 9, drifted back up to 10 and now back down to 9. Changed jobs so things have evened off at the moment, ironically not been called a bandit since as i've won nothing, barely registered a top 10 in anything. But the in crowd groups have started winning medals with regularity and only ever by the smallest of margins so as no large cuts come into force with their handicaps, yet I was the bandit.

The thing I find funny in all of this is that the bandit is always someone else, and only ever when they've done what the jealous person that calls them it has failed to do, and thats win something. Everyone has a good game in them somewhere and in the long run things balance out.

 

[Junior]

Pleased to say we don't really get bandits , many are accused of being one in jest, but its only ever meant tongue in cheek by a sore loser . . .

For me a bandit is someone who keeps makes a conscious effort to keep their handicap artificially high. FWIW my aim in competitions is just to beat my handicap by as many shots as possible. Winning does not really enter my thoughts. I just want to get as low as i can. I was hoping for a general play cut as this year I've had 5 cuts, 3 buffers and 1 x 0.1 back, but so far the computers not spat out my name for an ESR.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

The bandit accusation usually occurs when a high hcapper shoots a low score compared to his usual scores.

I know of one fella and he's always been off 10, winning the weekly sweeps him and hs cronies play in.

He played my mate who was off 4 and he said to him " if I went below 10 I wouldn't stand a chance".

 

[swanny32]

Swanny, without him playing comps he is surely to lose his handicap come the end of the year anyway.

****, that's a bloody good point actually! Better tell him about that.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Poor old Sndance got labelled with the bandit tag last season. He was firmly in the improving golfer category and entered all the events. He went from something like 23-13 in one season having had lessons and playing loads. Cleaned up in a lot of comps along with Bash and was even stopped from playing in one of the Sunday roll ups because they were scared he'd take the pot each week. He's plateaued out this season and arguable regressed a tad but he's still got single figures in him