Golf Random Irritations

Bdill93 said:
With all due respect, if you're scoring 29 off 17, why would you want to be off 15 and scoring less?
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Because I'm just going through one of the phases that we all get now and again. Under the old system I'd go 12 ,13 and maybe just 14 h/c then hit a bit of form and drop back down again to 11 or 12. The new system, which I'm not wholly against, is a double whammy with an increase in handicap plus additional slope shots.
 
chrisd said:
Because I'm just going through one of the phases that we all get now and again. Under the old system I'd go 12 ,13 and maybe just 14 h/c then hit a bit of form and drop back down again to 11 or 12. The new system, which I'm not wholly against, is a double whammy with an increase in handicap plus additional slope shots.
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For us higher handicappers, the old system tended to result in big cuts followed by gradual rises, until another great round gave another big cut. Your HCP in those days was pretty much an indicator of what you were capable of on a good day - ie. one you'd rarely play to. Sometimes a really big cut left you with no chance for quite a while, because at 0.1 per round, it took ages to creep back up to something more realistic.

(I remember being cut 6 shots overnight a few years back when two stonking rounds within a fortnight triggered an ESR. It was great for my ego, but catastrophic for my competitiveness).

Under WHS, your course HCP is closer to what you might expect score reasonably regularly, so it's bound to be higher unless you're a very consistent (probably low single figure) player.

A low handicap is frankly a bit of an ego trip. Yes, we all want one, but perhaps once it's settled down we might find that scoring closer to net level par more regularly could actually make us feel a bit better about our game?
 
cliveb said:
For us higher handicappers, the old system tended to result in big cuts followed by gradual rises, until another great round gave another big cut. Your HCP in those days was pretty much an indicator of what you were capable of on a good day - ie. one you'd rarely play to. Sometimes a really big cut left you with no chance for quite a while, because at 0.1 per round, it took ages to creep back up to something more realistic.

(I remember being cut 6 shots overnight a few years back when two stonking rounds within a fortnight triggered an ESR. It was great for my ego, but catastrophic for my competitiveness).

Under WHS, your course HCP is closer to what you might expect score reasonably regularly, so it's bound to be higher unless you're a very consistent (probably low single figure) player.

A low handicap is frankly a bit of an ego trip. Yes, we all want one, but perhaps once it's settled down we might find that scoring closer to net level par more regularly could actually make us feel a bit better about our game?
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The weird thing for me is that I have been scoring close to net par, regularly getting 35 points, but my handicap is still going to go up after the next few rounds. In the old days that was buffer and you'd be sound. It's just weird and takes some getting used to I guess. Especially for me now with the slope rating being too low as we discussed before. The round that's going off is an 82 at HH so I think I'll have to break 80 for the first time ever to avoid going up a shot. :LOL:
 
cliveb said:
For us higher handicappers, the old system tended to result in big cuts followed by gradual rises, until another great round gave another big cut. Your HCP in those days was pretty much an indicator of what you were capable of on a good day - ie. one you'd rarely play to. Sometimes a really big cut left you with no chance for quite a while, because at 0.1 per round, it took ages to creep back up to something more realistic.

(I remember being cut 6 shots overnight a few years back when two stonking rounds within a fortnight triggered an ESR. It was great for my ego, but catastrophic for my competitiveness).

Under WHS, your course HCP is closer to what you might expect score reasonably regularly, so it's bound to be higher unless you're a very consistent (probably low single figure) player.

A low handicap is frankly a bit of an ego trip. Yes, we all want one, but perhaps once it's settled down we might find that scoring closer to net level par more regularly could actually make us feel a bit better about our game?
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I absolutely agree, and at my age (68) a higher handicap is more likely, but as a regular match player I am pretty dangerous with several more shots than I've ever had over the past 20 years and am getting the usual "bandito" comments, which I can live with as I play in pretty much all the regular mens club competitions and the handicap record speaks for itself, but I can get a shot on half the course playing with my regular vets league partners in matchplay -handy but hard to get used too. Also I shot a 2 over par round the day before the pre Xmas lockdown and am quite capable of repeating it - that'd be a nett 53 ??
 
harpo_72 said:
Why is when you hit a monstrous tee shot into a fairway that the second shot is utter pooh? Is it expectation? Or just a fact of life … ?
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I can certainly relate to this! But that's (insert favourite expletive) Golf! My last round 2nd shots after great, for me, Drives were a mixture of sublime and absolute dog-do!
 
chrisd said:
I absolutely agree, and at my age (68) a higher handicap is more likely, but as a regular match player I am pretty dangerous with several more shots than I've ever had over the past 20 years and am getting the usual "bandito" comments, which I can live with as I play in pretty much all the regular mens club competitions and the handicap record speaks for itself, but I can get a shot on half the course playing with my regular vets league partners in matchplay -handy but hard to get used too. Also I shot a 2 over par round the day before the pre Xmas lockdown and am quite capable of repeating it - that'd be a nett 53 ??
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Youll be in the money when you do that again then!!
 
The term “Vets” for golfers aged over 55.
I am neither an animal doctor nor an ex member of the armed forces.
“Seniors” will do.
 
[QUOTE="Orikoru, post: 2365382, member: 22581"a person who has had long experience in a particular field. Presumably includes a field with holes and flag in it. :D[/QUOTE]

Although an old golfer may have only just taken it up! :-)

I wish Associations/Unions would agree to align the age for "Seniors'" events... quite often you go on a site, try and enter then Senior Open and see it is 60, not 55. :-)
 
The 3 slow coaches in front of us at tain, lost 2 holes on the group in front, no offer to go through when they were looking for balls on almost every hole
 
Lilyhawk said:
Lack of consistency in my game.

It's not more than 10 days ago I shot a gross 72, 2 over par. The past weekend I shot a 85, but that's with the WHS net double bogey thing in place. I didn't even finish 2 of the holes.

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My golf in a graph over the past 3 years

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