Exactly why I’d prefer medal…with stableford my major blunders are hidden. It matters not whether I score a 12 or an 8. If I end up with 36 pts I can tell myself that I ‘played to my handicap’ and feel pleased with myself, when in fact I am deluded and deceiving myself about my golf. That’s fine if I want to pretend that I’m better than I actually am - but not for me (though I admit that sometimes I do
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Going to need to see his workings out on a separate sheet of paper,
But you actually would have played to handicap, since handicap rounds are recorded broadly the same as Stableford aren't they? i.e. bad holes rounded down. So you'd be correct in saying you'd played to handicap.Exactly why I’d prefer medal…with stableford my major blunders are hidden. It matters not whether I score a 12 or an 8. If I end up with 36 pts I can tell myself that I ‘played to my handicap’ and feel pleased with myself, when in fact I am deluded and deceiving myself about my golf. That’s fine if I want to pretend that I’m better than I actually am - but not for me (though I admit that sometimes I do
That’s only for handicap purposes though! If you score a 12 in a medal it’ll be shown on the results, the only pat on the back you could feel is that you never gave up, you’d still be 7/8/9 over Par on that hole and that is no different in a Stab comp if a person decides not to pick up.Exactly why I’d prefer medal…with stableford my major blunders are hidden. It matters not whether I score a 12 or an 8. If I end up with 36 pts I can tell myself that I ‘played to my handicap’ and feel pleased with myself, when in fact I am deluded and deceiving myself about my golf. That’s fine if I want to pretend that I’m better than I actually am - but not for me (though I admit that sometimes I do
The 12 handicapper was 3-over on 16 holes getting 12 shots. 9 points better than level 2s. 32 + 9 = 41. (The two holes he dropped 7 shots on were not shot-holes)
I was told that the handicap system was used so people could play with their neighbour/friend/work colleague/boss etc and have a competitive game, no matter what their abilities.
Brilliant, you’ve got him scoring 5 points on 3 holes! You’ve counted twice!
Get that…my point is that ‘…I am deluded and deceiving myself about my golf’.But you actually would have played to handicap, since handicap rounds are recorded broadly the same as Stableford aren't they? i.e. bad holes rounded down. So you'd be correct in saying you'd played to handicap.
…and on this..I am looking at 36pts and thinking I played just fine…and my golf is all round tidy…when in fact on one or more holes I could have been in the middle of a mega shambles in some aspects of my play e.g. getting out of a bunker… but I picked up as soon as I couldn’t score a pt.That’s only for handicap purposes though! If you score a 12 in a medal it’ll be shown on the results, the only pat on the back you could feel is that you never gave up, you’d still be 7/8/9 over Par on that hole and that is no different in a Stab comp if a person decides not to pick up.
But that’s your mindset! You could look at 36pts and think, it would of been 40 if I hadn’t of blobbed 2 holes.
Its also possible to have a stinker or 2 and still post a good net score , have done it several times.
Exactly! Done it myself a few years back, had an 11 on our 2nd and still made buffer.
But how are you? 36 points is a good round whatever way you look at it. I'm looking at this the reverse way to you - why beat yourself up over one bad hole ruining the round? Stableford actually gives you a better outlook and a more healthy attitude about how you played. You call it delusion, I say you played a fantastic round for 17 out of 18 holes.
Apologies…I edited my post to expand on my thinking…
Medal can be especially punishing when you lose a ball unexpectedly as well. When your options are, do a 200 yard walk to hit again and hold up the entire field, or cancel your round altogether.
