Handicap category poll

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What handicap category are you?

  • Cat 1 (5 and under)

    Votes: 18 13.1%

  • Cat 2 (6 to 12)

    Votes: 52 38.0%

  • Cat 3 (13 to 20)

    Votes: 49 35.8%

  • Cat 4 (20 to 28)

    Votes: 16 11.7%

  • Cat 5 (over 28)

    Votes: 2 1.5%
  • Total voters
    137
SugarPenguin said:
I know - or else the committee will probably lynch me.....
I would feel very guilty winning the first comp if I play well.
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Yeah I reckon you've answered your own question there. Well done on improving so dramatically, you'll enjoy your golf all the more next year with your new-found ability, and you'd gain a lot of respect from the committee and fellow members by holding your hand up before the white tees go out.

Its a no-brainer really. Good luck for what sounds like an exciting season ahead!
 
Curls said:
Yeah I reckon you've answered your own question there. Well done on improving so dramatically, you'll enjoy your golf all the more next year with your new-found ability, and you'd gain a lot of respect from the committee and fellow members by holding your hand up before the white tees go out.

Its a no-brainer really. Good luck for what sounds like an exciting season ahead!
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Ima loving my golf at the moment. Cannot get enough of it - I am so glad I started playing again this time last year.
I even started practicing recently and got kitted with some new shineys. Would love to get to single figures in 2016.
 
SugarPenguin said:
Ima loving my golf at the moment. Cannot get enough of it - I am so glad I started playing again this time last year.
I even started practicing recently and got kitted with some new shineys. Would love to get to single figures in 2016.
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Great that you're enjoying it, that's the main thing. By all means set a high target for yourself but don't let frustration creep in if you're not smashing it, single figures from 17 in a season is doable but rare enough I'll wager so you shouldn't let it ruin your summer chasing it either, nothing wrong with steady progress and there's plenty time to get down to the lower numbers! I wish someone had told me to stop counting and play more freely last year, think I would've gone lower. If you do start getting cut the trap a lot of folk (i.e me) fall into is they start treating the holes they now don't have a shot on differently. When I dropped from 12 to 9 last season I lost shots on 2 holes Ive always struggled with, both par 3s. This was a double blow and one I let get in my head. Of course you need to keep in the back of your mind whether this putt is for 1 point or bust, so that you really try to make it (though some would argue you should try to make everything, and maybe next year I will be able to maintain that mindset when my putting improves thanks to Bob), but really you should just be trying to make the best score you can on any given hole regardless of the SI. The best rounds I played last year were when I played without thinking about which half of the course I had/didnt have shots on. Game on.
 
Curls said:
Great that you're enjoying it, that's the main thing. By all means set a high target for yourself but don't let frustration creep in if you're not smashing it, single figures from 17 in a season is doable but rare enough I'll wager so you shouldn't let it ruin your summer chasing it either, nothing wrong with steady progress and there's plenty time to get down to the lower numbers! I wish someone had told me to stop counting and play more freely last year, think I would've gone lower. If you do start getting cut the trap a lot of folk (i.e me) fall into is they start treating the holes they now don't have a shot on differently. When I dropped from 12 to 9 last season I lost shots on 2 holes Ive always struggled with, both par 3s. This was a double blow and one I let get in my head. Of course you need to keep in the back of your mind whether this putt is for 1 point or bust, so that you really try to make it (though some would argue you should try to make everything, and maybe next year I will be able to maintain that mindset when my putting improves thanks to Bob), but really you should just be trying to make the best score you can on any given hole regardless of the SI. The best rounds I played last year were when I played without thinking about which half of the course I had/didnt have shots on. Game on.
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solid advice. Cheers Curls :thup:
 
So the spread of HC on the forum is a fair reflection of your average golf club ?

Seems to have a lot less of the High HC or have they not voted ?
 
Liverpoolphil said:
So the spread of HC on the forum is a fair reflection of your average golf club ?

Seems to have a lot less of the High HC or have they not voted ?
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I think lower handicaps are more likely to be on a golf forum than high ones. I don't think it's an average reflection but interesting to see where we stand as a forum

sure I read 17 is the average which seems about right for a club
 
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