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Just to follow up on this, I played yesterday in our monthly competition. Scored 33 points and was two points behind the overall winner.
My first 4 tee shots with the big stick were topped! Not just a little, but a lot! Like I was digging for Australia! After that, it stayed in the bag and out came the Crossover and I actually played to my handicap. But I blobbed the 17th due to a horrific slice into water and then a very bad 80 yard shot to the final green! So I may have come in perhaps 1 or 2 shots under.
As I said a the beginning of this post, when I pay well, I can shoot bandit scores compared to my handicap. But yesterday proved to me that, at the moment, my handicap is right. It is not because I have a poor quality swing or the way I hit the ball, or my course management, which is getting better or the simple mistakes - missing greens, miss-read putts, landing in rough etc, but to help with the bad mistakes I make - the top, the duff chip etc. If I can remove those, then I am confident my handicap will drop. But it is for me to do as and when I can. Incidentally, my two PPs had no issues with my handicap -V- Score -V- Swing etc.
As the author of the original post, thanks for all the good advice and wise words!
So if I have read this correctly, you are basically saying that you played poorly? You finished 2 points behind the winner, would have been in buffer zone if it was a competition and still think your handicap is about right?
I wish I could play poorly and still make buffer