Is your handicap important to you?

[upsidedown]

Yes , important to me, two older brothers who are higher so massive bragging rights

 

[Imurg]

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...

+1:thup:

 

[Birchy]

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.

Easy mate! Your a bandit off 10

Handicap is important to me because i want to enter the better competitions as well. My main aim in golf though is i want to get to the level where i can shoot in the 70s more often than not.

 

[Rooter]

I suppose it is, as its the measure of how good you are.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Easy mate! Your a bandit off 10

Handicap is important to me because i want to enter the better competitions as well. My main aim in golf though is i want to get to the level where i can shoot in the 70s more often than not.

Just remind me! How many points did I get at the Silloth weekend, 20 & 25 I remember, Defo no bandit :rofl:

 

[adiemel]

My handicap isn't the main reason I play. At the moment I have still to go round in under 120 so I am stuck on 28. I want to get it down from 28. But the main reason I play is to enjoy my round and the company I am playing with.

 

[needmoreclub]

The handicap's an indication of what level you can play to. I get much more pleasure from playing well and striking it well, the prize would be handicap reduction, but it's not the main issue.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Like many others it was important to me once upon a time as it represented a mark of the progress, or otherwise, I was making in the game.

Nowadays, however, I play purely for fun and can't be bothered with comps, In fact I believe my handicap may now be inactive.

It does not seem to be a problem as, in roll-ups etc; I play off my last active figure which is OK with the others in the field.

 

[RGDave]

I've played off everything between 24 and 9. (both only lasted a very short time...)

For me, looking back over a fairly long time playing; I don't care what the number is, as long as it is an accurate measure of me against the course.

Unlike some folk, I'd rather the number is correct not simply as low as possible. Lower means I'm a better player (sure), but I gave up chasing a "goal" like that many years ago. In fact, trying to get less than 9 was ruining my enjoyment.

I had to submit a supplementary card recently (long story). I asked to play off whites and was told (not by the pro) to play off yellows. I played off whites. The card was accepted (no surprise) by the secretary. I had no wish to knock it round in 78-80 shots, when 82 is my lowest at my home course off the whites. 12.5 is a little depressing, but hey... it's a tough course.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Yes and No

Yes as its something to rate myself and improve on, which is rewarding.

No as I play golf to have fun and the fun isnt always in the score. Sometimes its THAT shot or just being outside in the sun!

 

[patricks148]

hell yeah

 

[DaveM]

Not really interested in comp's. Been there done that. I know how well/bad I'm playing don't need a h/c for that.
If I had a h/c it would be down in single figures. Hope it still is when I get back from injury.

 

[IanG]

yes, 'important' to me, but not as important as many, many, many other things

 

[mikeb4]

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.

Very well put!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It's important to a degree as I want to be single figures but to be honest, I play every round with the intention of shooting the best score to par I can and never really think in terms of net scores. The way I see it, play well and the score and handicap cuts take care of themselves and chop it and I get 0.1 onto the figure

 

[Jungle]

My handicap is really important to me. No easier way to measure the success of your season.

As I'm in my first few years of playing I have been able to take a good chunk of it.

 

[SAPCOR1]

Nope!

 

[CMAC]

Handicap isnt important to me.

The way I play and ultimately my gross score is though:smirk:

 

[duncan mackie]

I suppose it is, as its the measure of how good you are.

Absolutely

What you do with that is another matter entirely as with any other competence or qualification.

 

[bladeplayer]

I suppose it is, as its the measure of how good you are.

Yep its a measure of how good i am , how good ive been, a benchmark of my best golf and a marker to beat and lower every chance I get..
If your competitive Its the bar u set for urself & has to be important to u

If your not competitive,, i guess not