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I was just flicking through Howdidido & noticed a few other golfers score a lot of NR for different holes. How many shots over on a Par3/4/5 do you have to go over for this to be a NR.
 
I have put in an NR but I hate doing it. Sometimes even if you call the group behind through, there are times when you are getting into Kevin Na territory and for the sake of your partners it is time to call it quits. As I say it is a last resort and even if I'm chopping it I'd rather put a 100+ score in and have the "satisfaction" of returning my card
 
NR is absolute last resort stuff. I'm sure one day I'll NR a medal round after some irrecoverable disaster, but it hasn't happened in 18 years.
 
I have never picked up even on disaster holes. I keep stats so having a nr messes it up.
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Seriously? You keep going no matter what? :D

Surely your stats (which you do at home?) can live with you writing your score down as a 9/10/11 or whatever you'd have made without actually having to inflict such a score on yourself, for real?
 
Only NR'd once.
The day of Princess Di's funeral.
Got to the 11th hole, drove to the middle of the fairway and promptly shanked 5 balls in a row OB.
Picked 'em up and walked round marking the card of the other player, didn't hit another ball.....
 
NRed a few weeks back, hit a pull off our 9th, walked down there never found it, hit an almost identical shot, walked down there and never found it again - never walking back a 2nd time!!!!! (was told later both balls were on the edge of the 10th, prob 40 yds past the furthest point we looked :( )
 
If i'm having a bad day I NR and enjoy the rest of the round with no pressures. I'm not out there to slog it round in huge numbers and make myself miserable.
 
Last NR'd a couple of months ago.
Been playing pants anyway, but struck my tee shot on the 16th into the rough down the right hand side. We all had a line on it, no problem.
Search as we did we couldn't find the damned thing. A busy comp so I wasn't doing the walk of shame back to the tee. Simply NR'd.

Hated doing it, especially on the 16th !!! Still played the rest of the 16th and remaining holes (non competitively) you wouldn't believe how well I played then!!
 
My last NR was in the medal a couple of months back on the par 5 15th. Not playing great and 0.1 safely tucked away. Played my 2nd from the fairway (one of the few I hit) and it went towards the 100 yard marker on the right of the fairway in the first cut. We all saw it and none of us could find it when we got there. We even checked the long stuff in the same area to no avail. A real mystery and didn't do much to cheer my mood up. Backing up behind once we'd called the group behind through and decided I couldn't be bothered going back.
 
What some dont realise is that when playing in a comp like that if it all does go pear shaped then unless after that 15 on a hole that by some devine miracle you happen to birdy your way home you are in fact looking at a 0.1 back anyway...So for the sake of holding people up in my opinion its best to pick up and just plod along...

Have a read of this and it'll make it all a little clearer...



No Return (N/R) in a Qualifying Competition

It can happen. You knock three drives out of bounds on the 3rd in a monthly medal and can't face playing 7 off the tee, or you biff a huge slice down the 17th, only to find when you get down there that it has just gone onto the practice ground and can't face the walk of shame back to the tee for a reload. In either case, the result may well be an N/R and an extra 0.1 onto your handicap.

However, there are two things that all players need to be aware of. One you definitely know about, the other you may not:

Firstly, it is mandatory that you return your card, at the end of your round, to the committee. This is so that the competition can be closed off and the results declared. Missing cards cause considerable grief for the organisers who are trying to account for all entrants.

Secondly, and this is the bit you may not realise, although N/R'ing rules a player out of the competition (as the round has not been completed) it can have a different implication for handicapping purposes. Under rule 19 of the latest CONGU Unified Handicapping System (2008 - 2011), we are obliged, whether or not all 18 holes have been completed, to adjust scores returned in stroke play qualifying competitions to establish the nett differential that would have applied had the competition been run as a stableford.

Without going into the detail of how to do that (stableford/nett double bogey adjustment), what it means is that if a player has done well enough on the other holes, despite N/R'ing they can still be in the buffer zone (no handicap change) or can even achieve a handicap reduction. In my examples above, not completing the 3rd or 17th holes could still have enabled a player to protect or improve their handicap if they played ok on the other holes overall.

If you have any questions about this, please see George Parker
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