If they scrap the handicap system would you still play the same amount of golf?

[patricks148]

I under stand what guys are saying and i'm nowhere near the low end of the scale, but does the current handicap system allow you to just be crap and still win? There is no real reason for a lot of guys to get any better as they feel they can still win comps.

If im honest winning is not something that i think about, but shooting the lowest gross score i can and improve my scores when i play.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Thing about golf is that you can play it yourself - and I do that a lot - so my handicap doesn't have any part in my enjoyment so would make no difference to me. But every other form of golf even the most social will have some aspect of handicapping to enable us to enjoy playing together - unless you and your PPs know that you are all about the same standard. But with no handicapping there would be no point in having stroke indexing. Courses could maintain SIs to support players adopting their own handicapping system - but then why would you scrap it if players just invented their own? And folks coming together from different grooups would want some uniformity between their individual handicap systems - and so we'd be back to getting a handicap system back.#

Bottom line is that golf and handicapping are one and the same thing.

 

[bernix]

Imo club competitions would become extict. Compare it with cycling. Everyone, well numerous people practice cycling but i personally do not know anyone who participates in competitions, same goes with alpine skiing and Austria is a country of alpine skiers. Yes I would still try to beat my personal best every weekend but very rarely take participate in competions with absolutly no chance of winning it.

 

[Slab]

Thing about golf is that you can play it yourself - and I do that a lot - so my handicap doesn't have any part in my enjoyment so would make no difference to me. But every other form of golf even the most social will have some aspect of handicapping to enable us to enjoy playing together - unless you and your PPs know that you are all about the same standard. But with no handicapping there would be no point in having stroke indexing. Courses could maintain SIs to support players adopting their own handicapping system - but then why would you scrap it if players just invented their own? And folks coming together from different grooups would want some uniformity between their individual handicap systems - and so we'd be back to getting a handicap system back.#

Bottom line is that golf and handicapping are one and the same thing.

And yet the RandA have nothing to do with the latter! If golf & golfers need a handicap its weird they would leave such a critical component of the game to a third party

 

[patricks148]

Imo club competitions would become extict. Compare it with cycling. Everyone, well numerous people practice cycling but i personally do not know anyone who participates in competitions, same goes with alpine skiing and Austria is a country of alpine skiers. Yes I would still try to beat my personal best every weekend but very rarely take participate in competions with absolutly no chance of winning it.

Funny enough Cycling is split into Cat's, its been a while since i raced, but in the UK it was. elite/Pro, 1st,2nd 3rd cats the Juniors and Vets. the lower tear raced against each other. used to be plenty of 3, J, races or 3rd and vets. track racing too was split into cats. Time trialing was split best last really or fastest time last so if you had a PB for 10 miles of 17min you would be off late and if it was 28min you would be starting off in the layby on the A1 a 5.30 AM