Is your handicap important to you?

[Deleted Member 1156]

Do you consider your handicap to be important or is it just a number that allows you to compete on equal terms with your mates? Or is it a status symbol, maybe low enough to get into better competitions and that is the important factor?

 

[GreiginFife]

My handicap is my measure. My measure of me against my course and no one else. Its not to level me against my mates or anyone else. Its to level me against my course, as is theirs.
Its my measure, and without it it would be difficult to improve against my course.

Thats just my simple view.

Too many in this game see it as a status symbol and a way of looking down on others.

 

[Jon321]

Yes it's a mark of your improvement. It gives me a goal to play for.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

When talking about the h'cap system "equal" is a very loose description. My handicap is a measure of my ability against myself and the course, that is all I am competing against.

 

[Maninblack4612]

I am single figures for the first time since 1982. 9 sounds so much better than 10 and, suffering a dip in form, I'm scared to enter another medal round, at 9.3 I can only afford one more bad one. I'd just love to finish the season on 9. Is my handicap important to me? Nah!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Simple answer - nah not really.

 

[BTatHome]

Of course it is, it's the measure of whether I'm still improving.

 

[NorfolkShaun]

I just see it as a measurement to indicate how I am playing and something to set achievement targets against

 

[moogie]

No
Not in the slightest
It's a hobby, social activity, and treat exactly as such

 

[Laka]

Nope,,,most important is how I hit the ball and feel the different between a good and bad stroke. I also like the approach play, to have a good shot and see how the ball flies towards target/pin and stop almost immidately....

 

[rickg]

Mines very important to me......most of the mid-am comps, (over 35's) are balloted at 5 h/cap, and these are the comps I want to play in, so yes, important.

 

[Captainron]

I want mine to be as low as possible. It's about being better at the game.

 

[Oddsocks]

I am single figures for the first time since 1982. 9 sounds so much better than 10 and, suffering a dip in form, I'm scared to enter another medal round, at 9.3 I can only afford one more bad one. I'd just love to finish the season on 9. Is my handicap important to me? Nah!

I'm so close to this it's scary!

 

[Grantley1988]

It's important to me. I like to set myself goals to reduce it. It shows my progress.

 

[Hobbit]

The actual number isn't important to me but I want it to be as low as I can possibly get it. When I play I want to have a gross score as low as I can achieve - that is the number that's important to me. The calculation after the gross score is artificial...

 

[FairwayDodger]

Getting better is the important thing and handicap is a useful way to measure something that would be fairly intangible otherwise.

Anyone who displays their handicap in their signature and says it isn't important to them is kidding themselves and fooling nobody!

 

[louise_a]

My handicap is the gauge for how well I am playing and what standard I have reached, my aim is to get it as low as I can, although I do not try to protect it from increasing, I will play in every qualifier I can, both at my own course and at away courses even though the latter is likely to give me a 0.1 increase.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Getting better is the important thing and handicap is a useful way to measure something that would be fairly intangible otherwise.

Anyone who displays their handicap in their signature and says it isn't important to them is kidding themselves and fooling nobody!

Or they put it in there when they first joined the forum because they thought it was a requirement.

I like to play good golf - i would like to be as good as i can.

I was chuffed to pieces when i got to cat 1 but i dont go out and worry about it when playing - getting .1 back doesnt bother me , getting cut isnt an aim or important. Its a number that is used to work out net results.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Mines very important to me......most of the mid-am comps, (over 35's) are balloted at 5 h/cap, and these are the comps I want to play in, so yes, important.

you need to be looking at getting down to 2 to enter the gerald micklem at sunningdale for £88 you get 3 rounds on the new and fed.

Same for me, the mid ams I am trying to get into are aimed at 8 mark so yes my handicap is important to me now, just want to get low enough to enter the logan trophy. Would love to be able to get down to 9 this year and chip away at it over the winter.

 

[sawtooth]

In a comp I want to play well, lower my handicap and win - in that order.