I played today and..(Rolling) -originally created by JohnnyDee

[Orikoru]

First of our 'majors' today - basically anyone's birthday round is a 'major' in our group of mates. Four of us playing at Flackwell Heath.

Weather was pretty poor with a few showers, but I played an absolute blinder. With my inflated handicap getting me 16 shots... At half way I had 19 points despite blobbing the 6th, but birdied the 9th. My back nine was only 3 over par, with another birdie and four bogeys, for another 23 points - and I stupidly three-putted the last as well. Finished with a ten over 81 for 42 points! Took the victory by 5 points with my mate getting the same gross score but off 11 shots.

And all of that with a broken shoe, as my Boa lace snapped on the 7th teebox. Really enjoyed the course, lots of elevation which made it interesting and made all the par 3s very difficult. A few tight tee shots but I utilised the 3 wood well on some of the shorter ones. Putted well too, apart from that final three-putt.

Card gone in so should be a 0.8 cut tomorrow back to 16.1 if I've done my maths correct*. Finally moving the right way, I think that's the first time I've 'beaten my handicap' so to speak, since August - score differential 11.3 assuming PCC doesn't kick in.

*it's 16.0 as it turns out.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

What was it Rory said…..”Play better”

Don’t think I have ever seen anyone have that level of score

Bring back the old 10% or 15% rules we had

 

[wjemather]

Texas scramble

We had a solid gross of 60 a net 59

Currently near the bottom leaving

Seems there is a few reams with 15 plus shots out there

Joke HC allowances

There is little point any very low HCs playing in them

Sooner we bin them off the better

Results are in

For us to have challenged we needed to score 19 under gross

Why is your story different from the live leaderboard?

 

[PJ87]

Played 9 after work today. Hit 19 points, was striking the ball so clean

18 tomorrow, bet I can't hit a ball

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Why is your story different from the live leaderboard?

Because it doesn’t have three scores on there which need to be added tomorrow

And which live leaderboard

 

[The Squirrel]

Something a lot like this hapenned.

Except

1) a lot less talented golfer was swinging the club (me) - although the strike actually felt pretty good and - definitely not a case of whacking it into the ground or a root or something.
2) it was a 3 wood
3) the club head flew off about 90 degrees to my left into the forest never to be seen again
4) Sadly the shot result was nowhere near as good as Rory's effort either

Guess I need a new 3 wood now. Shame; I liked the old one (Sim2 Max) but it's probably only around 1 year old so feel that's a bit poor to have failed so spectauclarly. Will have to try something else.

Funny one - the fact it flew off left means it detached from the shaft a fraction of a second after contact with the ball/ground rather than during contact - not sure what would cause this mode of failure.

 

[wjemather]

Because it doesn’t have three scores on there which need to be added tomorrow

And which live leaderboard

The IG live leaderboard available via the web.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

The IG live leaderboard available via the web.

Visitors can only ever see Live leaderboards for any event that’s set as an Open event

 

[wjemather]

Visitors can only ever see Live leaderboards for any event that’s set as an Open event

Different facility within IG. You're talking about the "in-progress results".

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Different facility within IG. You're talking about the "in-progress results".

No I’m talking about the Live Leaderboards which can be set up of which we have none currently

 

[IanM]

Screen shots please .. that'll sort it

 

[HomerJSimpson]

No idea what was wrong with my yesterday but back in work today and feeling ok so I've booked 9 holes after work. Already on count down to leaving and getting out

 

[Springveldt]

Don’t think I have ever seen anyone have that level of score

Bring back the old 10% or 15% rules we had

We had a Texas scramble event at the start of last year. The best gross team was all good players, lowest was +2 and highest was 4 I think from memory and they shot a gross 58 (par 72). The winners who as a team got 13 shots and I think the indexes of the team were something like 8, 8, 22, 26 shot a gross 62 for a net 49. My brain just doesn't understand how a team like that can shoot 10 under gross no matter how many goes you give them as I'm sure you had to have 4 tee shots each as well.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

We had a Texas scramble event at the start of last year. The best gross team was all good players, lowest was +2 and highest was 4 I think from memory and they shot a gross 58 (par 72). The winners who as a team got 13 shots and I think the indexes of the team were something like 8, 8, 22, 26 shot a gross 62 for a net 49. My brain just doesn't understand how a team like that can shoot 10 under gross no matter how many goes you give them as I'm sure you had to have 4 tee shots each as well.

I believe when EG “made up” the HC allowances they decided that they would look at the “ideal team”

A low , couple of mid and a high handicapper - and they come up with made up allowances

so we had PH’s of

0 , 3 , 6 and 15

So it’s 25% of the allowance is the lowest HC - so 25% of 0 is 0

Overall is gives around a shot

In the old system we used it would have given us one more shot which isn’t a big difference

But what it did do was reduce the amount of shots other teams got

The winning team for example got 9 shots

Old format they would have got 4 - a lot more balanced

Since the changes our Scrambles are only a one by mid to high HCs now

 

[Billysboots]

We had a Texas scramble event at the start of last year. The best gross team was all good players, lowest was +2 and highest was 4 I think from memory and they shot a gross 58 (par 72). The winners who as a team got 13 shots and I think the indexes of the team were something like 8, 8, 22, 26 shot a gross 62 for a net 49. My brain just doesn't understand how a team like that can shoot 10 under gross no matter how many goes you give them as I'm sure you had to have 4 tee shots each as well.

We all know that scrambles are won on and around the greens. Most teams will be putting for birdie on the majority of holes, or at worst chipping and putting for par, unless all team members are very high handicap golfers.

The current stroke allowances are absolutely farcical. In the example you cite I’m willing to bet 10% of the combined handicaps would have made it a far more level playing field. Which is precisely as it should be.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

34 minutes until I head to the course. Really looking forward to a few holes and trying a couple of things

 

[Orikoru]

I believe when EG “made up” the HC allowances they decided that they would look at the “ideal team”

A low , couple of mid and a high handicapper - and they come up with made up allowances

so we had PH’s of

0 , 3 , 6 and 15

So it’s 25% of the allowance is the lowest HC - so 25% of 0 is 0

Overall is gives around a shot

In the old system we used it would have given us one more shot which isn’t a big difference

But what it did do was reduce the amount of shots other teams got

The winning team for example got 9 shots

Old format they would have got 4 - a lot more balanced

Since the changes our Scrambles are only a one by mid to high HCs now

I'm not smart enough to know what the allowances should be. But I do know in the current system you are frankly silly to enter a scramble without at least one high handicapper on your team to get you a few shots.

A team of all low players, yes you'll play well, but there's a limit to how well you can physically play. A 25 handicapper on the other hand - he's still capable of chucking in a couple of world class shots, but at the same time he's pushing the number of shots the team get right up, so his value to the team is greater. So you might only use 8% of the shots he hits, but those shots could effectively be as good as a scratch player's shot in that situation.. if you know what I mean.

Maybe this 25/20/15/10 % system is flawed because you could have two high cappers off a similar number so one of them isn't getting cut as much as the other one. Maybe a standard percentage off every player would work better? But again, I'm not smart enough to know the maths behind it.

 

[mister v]

we had our first medal of the season on Saturday and having played very poor golf last year i decided to practice through the winter ....... I came 4th out of 84 players, im really chuffed. Just hope i can maintain the form

 

[SteveW86]

34 minutes until I head to the course. Really looking forward to a few holes and trying a couple of things

Let us know how it is

 

[PJ87]

Managed 18 today, 33 points. Shame I had a blown up on the second and hit my worst drive in a while on 18 otherwise could have been a solid 36 points

I'll take that

Lost one avx on 2.. but found an avx and then found another on 18. Plus 1 for avx today lol to go with my 11 unopened boxes