Single Figure - Bandit ?

[Smiffy]

I played a guy in one of those newspaper matchplay things a year or two back.

I'm entered in one at the moment.
Got my first round "away" leg next Sunday. The course looks a right Goat Track and looking at the results sheet on the clubs website informs me that they 14 handicapper I'm drawn against won his division Stableford earlier in the month and came 2nd in a medal a couple of weeks ago.
He's obviously on his game then

 

[madandra]

BigBiffa, thats some size of signature pic my friend. It took 3 minutes to load onto my screen

 

[Smiffy]

It took 3 minutes to load onto my screen

It took him 2 minutes longer than that to find his ball after oinking it up the right into those trees

 

[StrangelyBrown]

No one bats an eyelid when Rory McIlroy shoots 16 under for two rounds when the previous two rounds he shoots 1 over...

Why is this?

Just because we're amateurs doesn't mean we can't have a big change in fortunes from one day to the next.

 

[JustOne]

If Homer didn't court controversy, it would be such a quiet place! x

Quiet isn't necessarily a good thing for a discussion forum...

Let's open another thread about cheating

 

[madandra]

If I am honest I think I could shoot a par 71 round my track. My best eclectic score there is 53 so is it any ral surprise when someone has a game where it all comes together.

A bandit is someone who does it 2-3 times a season.

 

[pokerjoke]

Did anyone call RYO a bandit when he shot 58?no of course not he just had a great round playing well under his handicap,as many people on here have said they feel they have the potential to shoot well under there hp,this is in no way banditry just a day when all parts of the the game go right.I for one am a little bored of the bandit posts as they just turn into arguments or personal slants.Its like any thing in the game cheats know there cheating,bandits know there bandits its always happened and will continue to happen.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

By the time we shook hands he was +2 gross. Now given all the debates about handicap's etc would that ever be considered banditry.

I was 2 over gross standing on the 15th tee on Saturday and I currently play off 11. My PB is 5 over and the way I am playing at the moment I expect to beat this very soon.

No sour grapes from me but is there ever a case of a single figure being able to be an out and out bandit.

I guess anyone can be a bandit of any handicap if they play regularly but not in qualifiers but I would think you'd have to have a true handicap of 1 or 2 to be a bandit off of 9 if you wanted to win anything (which I assume is the only reason to be a bandit) and you soon get found out shooting those figures.

 

[19th]

I assume from this topic that ALL golfers who have lowered their handicap have been bandits!!

It is impossible to get your handicap down unless you play under CSS - play under CSS and you are a bandit in the eyes of some posters - can't win!

On a personal note I hope to be a bandit, (play under CSS), many times this season to get my handicap back to a reasonable figure.

A bandit in my eyes is the golfer that decides to finish his medal round in high figures because he will be playing a match and does not want to lower his handicap, prior to that.

Golf proves that we are not machines, Rory has just proved that, although Faldo and Tiger tended to disprove it for periods of time! However Seve met us all halfway- hitting into my kind of country off the tee and then recovering like Tiger and putting like Bob Charles.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

It raises a couple of eyebrows when you get stableford scores of 40+

anyone can shoot 40+ points occasionally, that shouldn't raise eyebrows, if you're doing it every other round, that's a different matter.

 

[bigbiffa]

BigBiffa, thats some size of signature pic my friend. It took 3 minutes to load onto my screen

sorry m8, shall reduce now!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Well we got there at last and produced some interesting answers. And for the record it wasn't an attempt to court contoversy (I have a doozy of a thread if thats really what you want) but a genuine question. A lot was written about the guys at the higher end of the spectrum being genuine bandits (turning up once in a blue moon off a figure, shooting low and disappearing for ages again etc) and REALLY wanted to know if single figures could do it as easily.

From the responses it matches my own suspicions and that it probably isn't the case. I guess the better you are the more often you can have rounds like this guy had last night (including a tee shot to a foot on our 13th and inches from an eagle at 10) and so just a few over was the epitomy of a good round for him (what others might think of as say a 75). He is a good solid golfer. Great short game, short but straight and is a regular in our scratch teams.

Glad we finally go a decent conversation and that people looked at the content instead of the author.

 

[Smiffy]

Glad we finally go a decent conversation and that people looked at the content instead of the author.

Says who, you knob

 

[madandra]

Bigbiffa, your finishing pose looks identical to Boabski's. Are yo the same bloke?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Glad we finally go a decent conversation and that people looked at the content instead of the author.

Says who, you knob

How can I argue with King of the Knobs

 

[THJahar]

I missed the other threads so I can post in this one to categorically state that I'm half a bandit!
What?
Well let me explain, I've been playing in my winter league and consistently hitting at or above my 24 handicap.
But come one day, on my nine hole course, I go and hit 9 points on the first nine! Disaster!
But then on the back nine (the same holes) I get 26 points, oh yeah baby...I can't quite decide which half of me is the bandit, the left or the right side?