Slicer30
Q-School Graduate
Rosecott - think this has changed now with the changing of h'cap secretary.
Will try again if I enter another purple patch
Will try again if I enter another purple patch
Setting your own handicap
- Thread starter rosecott
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evahakool
Challenge Tour Pro
My only problem is that is seems Congu has made it more difficult for the club golfer to get cut on general play if he/she feels their game warrants it.
I know it can be done, but it just seems as if the system is set up to make it very difficult as it has to be on a measured course, off white tees and declared as a supp card before going out and signed by both great grand parents.
Bob I asked a few weeks ago if you could submit a supplementry card playing of the yellows,and was advised you could,so I'm a bit confused now when you say it must be off the Whites,perhaps you could clarify.Thanks.
rosecott
Money List Winner
Bob had moved into his exaggeration mode. As long as your course has a yellow SSS, you can submit a supplementary - always remembering to mark on the card that yellow tees were used.
stevie_r
Tour Winner
So you are not a member of a club yet saw fit the other night on another post to attempt to lecture one and all about how golf clubs should be! Join one, support it properly (financially) and then you may be entitled to an opinion - Instead of clogging up OUR courses with your societies.
AmandaJR
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Until this summer I struggled in medal play and knew my handicap was too high. In matchplay I was being called a bandit which stung as I was trying like stink to get cut. I could have submitted supplementary cards as usually that would be 1 over the average CSS so a tad easier and possibly feel a bit less pressured than a medal - you can choose your playing partner for starters and the best weather conditions for scoring etc. In the end though I figured my handicap should reflect how I can play in a medal so stuck at it and learnt how to handle my emotions in such competitions. I still play better at matchplay but love that form of golf so have also learnt not to focus on my weaknesses rather than strengths and make the most of them...
rosecott
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Ooooooh.
Look out Snelly, the Scots are assembling a united front. Can you take care of yourself?
stevie_r
Tour Winner
aaahhh, dear oh dear rosecott - you are making a huge assumption there
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Snelly
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Calm down darling. Even more angry than usual today aren't you Stevie? What's up? Has someone stolen the ring pulls off your lunch?
In fact, I have been a member of 4 golf clubs over the past 30 years. Not only that, I have played at 200+ courses all over the world and seen the very best and absolute worst that golf clubs have to offer. I'd say this gives me a pretty decent basis for comment.
Furthermore, I would argue that I am probably a little more qualified than you are given that you can barely see past the drizzle and mist that rolls off whatever godforsaken loch you live next to! Oh no hang on, that can't be right because you are a member currently and I am not! Right.....................
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stevie_r
Tour Winner
Jesus,
no ring pulls on my lunch, ate in the clubhouse washed down with a pint of coke.
Stereotyping is not big or clever
- try not to get your cravat in such a twist and join a club for god's sake - a real crusty one
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Snelly
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It's Snelly, not Jesus.
A pint of Coke? Good man.
I will join a crusty club when the circumstances are right Stevie. Thanks for the advice mate.
A pint of Coke? Good man.
I will join a crusty club when the circumstances are right Stevie. Thanks for the advice mate.
stevie_r
Tour Winner
LOL,
I don't live next to a loch - your geographical knowledge is clearly (and rather sadly) lacking, not everyone who lives in Scotland lives next to a loch. So on that basis I do question your claim to being 'a little more qualified'.
Stereotyping and assumption constantly, tut tut
Get three qualifying cuts in, enter as many comps as you can and your golf and CONGU will take care of the rest. Play well and your get cut accordongly and have a few mares and you'll get some back. It'll reach a plateau of a couple of shots where you'll get cut, go back up and then if you go on a bad run nudge a further shot higher.
I started at 11, went to 13 where I am now and nudged 14 for a while. I won a stableford and got cut back to 12 and now back at 13.1. A good round in the next comp and it'll drop again. A few mares and I'll be getting a shot back on our 6th. All I'm saying is my plateau is 12-14 at the moment. I might have a good start next year and get cut and that plateau will become 10-12 etc. Why would you want a vanity handicap and then fail to play to it in every comp and go back up each time. If you protect it by not playing comps then why have it at all?
I started at 11, went to 13 where I am now and nudged 14 for a while. I won a stableford and got cut back to 12 and now back at 13.1. A good round in the next comp and it'll drop again. A few mares and I'll be getting a shot back on our 6th. All I'm saying is my plateau is 12-14 at the moment. I might have a good start next year and get cut and that plateau will become 10-12 etc. Why would you want a vanity handicap and then fail to play to it in every comp and go back up each time. If you protect it by not playing comps then why have it at all?
