iwtuk
Assistant Pro
Smiffy,
Search for some previous posts / opinions and I think you'll find your answer!
Was I right to carry on?
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Smiffy,
Search for some previous posts / opinions and I think you'll find your answer!
Sneds
Tour Rookie
Personally I don't know why anybody under 18 handicap even bothers playing the game. They're the real cause of slow play. If everybody shot around 90 or better, the game of golf would improve for it. x
iwtuk
Assistant Pro
On reflection Sneds, you're right.....
viscount17
Money List Winner
FF well done,
anyway where were you going to go if you gave up, you're honour bound to carry on round as you're marking a card.
Might as well enjoy yourself while you're getting blown round the course.
as for we high handicappers not playing medals - spheroids!
I like playing medals, that might make me warped but so what.
anyway where were you going to go if you gave up, you're honour bound to carry on round as you're marking a card.
Might as well enjoy yourself while you're getting blown round the course.
as for we high handicappers not playing medals - spheroids!
I like playing medals, that might make me warped but so what.
Basher
Tour Winner
He's a high handicapper CC!!!
Oh almost forgot, you enjoy laughing and mocking golfers trying to improve their game don't you!
Let's just say I'm glad I don't play behind you. I pity the poor buggers who get drawn with you. Oh to have such a massive ego.
Knob!
Strangely enough I've never seen you competing on Tour. Suppose up against the likes of Westwood, Poulter, Rose et al you'd feel a bit like the original poster.
For Gods sake man, you're a bloody club golfer, not a professional. Anyone who doesn't match your obvious excellence obviously doesn't warrant a footprint on a golf course according to you.
Not actually last though as many wimped out well before him didn't they?
DMC
Challenge Tour Pro
You did the right thing,always better to put in a card,i have had a nr or two this year but i usually wish i had seen out the round.
Fyldewhite
Tour Winner
I don't think you were. Well done for carrying on but I fail to see what the "achievement" is. It makes precicely NO difference to post a score like that or to NR. I really don't understand why people have so much of a problem with people NR'ing. It just speeds up play for everyone else when players who are clearly having a bad day stop taking 8,9,10 shots per hole. An earlier post was more than a little blunt but I do sympathise. Slow play is a nightmare we all moan about all the time, yet many on here are saying well done for quite clearly taking a lot more time than you should.
Sorry CC but you are well out of order here. You are forgetting it was truely awful weatherwise across most of the UK (too windy for the poor darlings on tour) and also a medal. If in doubt surely its better to play a provisional (or two) and get it in play.
You seem to have this moribund belief that anyone incapable of breaking 90 in a medal shouldn't be allowed to play or play stableford only. I bow down to your superior prowess but I think you'll find the majority on here play for the fun first and any handicap cut or prize money is a secondary bonus. I think the OP should be praised for a) competing in medal play which you have often described as the true test of golf b) playing at all in such conditions and c) getting a card in when clearly more experienced golfers who fit your rigid entry conditions for playing what is only a club competition failed to do so
I am all for players getting out there and playing in whatever competitions they choose. If they are holding others up then I'm hoping that the majority, certainly in a club event, would have the good grace to call others through. Your attitude is at best elitist and and at worst dictorial. Are you suggesting that a 20 something guy who has been practicing hard at a range, maybe even with a pros help, can't enter because he'll take too many shots. Get a grip
You seem to have this moribund belief that anyone incapable of breaking 90 in a medal shouldn't be allowed to play or play stableford only. I bow down to your superior prowess but I think you'll find the majority on here play for the fun first and any handicap cut or prize money is a secondary bonus. I think the OP should be praised for a) competing in medal play which you have often described as the true test of golf b) playing at all in such conditions and c) getting a card in when clearly more experienced golfers who fit your rigid entry conditions for playing what is only a club competition failed to do so
I am all for players getting out there and playing in whatever competitions they choose. If they are holding others up then I'm hoping that the majority, certainly in a club event, would have the good grace to call others through. Your attitude is at best elitist and and at worst dictorial. Are you suggesting that a 20 something guy who has been practicing hard at a range, maybe even with a pros help, can't enter because he'll take too many shots. Get a grip
Basher
Tour Winner
Amen to that Homer!
Bigfoot
Tour Rookie
I was a high handicapper and have only got to 14 but only got there by learning how to play in medal competitions. You have to take some pain to get lower. By putting in a N/R you could be considered to have given up. Stick with it. What you did was good for the future of your golf.
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
In my opinion you are entitled to carry on, I can't say whether it's right or wrong, that would be your personal choice, so asking for an opinion was futile 
heh
I understand the opinion of "it might be doing more damage than good" and I also see the opinion of "well done, lesson learnt" and all that stuff. Bottom line is that it WAS a medal and you have paid your membership to the club so if you want to finish out every hole then it's entirely down to you and wouldn't bother me at all provided you let groups through if you're holding them up, you could stay out there all day for all I'd mind!
I'd probably be more concerned about how it might affect my playing partners than anyone else on the course. I'm pretty quick to declare a ball lost and rip up my card so I don't affect the tempo of other players around me, unless they've already been in the trees 50 times
hehI understand the opinion of "it might be doing more damage than good" and I also see the opinion of "well done, lesson learnt" and all that stuff. Bottom line is that it WAS a medal and you have paid your membership to the club so if you want to finish out every hole then it's entirely down to you and wouldn't bother me at all provided you let groups through if you're holding them up, you could stay out there all day for all I'd mind!
I'd probably be more concerned about how it might affect my playing partners than anyone else on the course. I'm pretty quick to declare a ball lost and rip up my card so I don't affect the tempo of other players around me, unless they've already been in the trees 50 times
tonto768
Assistant Pro
Yes right to carry on. I play off 26 and have posted some horrendous scores but its all supposed to be for enjoyment.
Parmo
Tour Winner
I remember trying to put my handicap cards in through Jan and Feb and it was a total nightmare,the greens where either frozen or the course like a swamp.
Well done fella for finishing in tough condictions. I quite enjoyed playing in the wind, I seem to be able to focus more and up my game in high winds, though I can't in the rain
Well done fella for finishing in tough condictions. I quite enjoyed playing in the wind, I seem to be able to focus more and up my game in high winds, though I can't in the rain
Fore
Head Pro
Carry on round yes, but play out every hole probably not. I would have turned it into a one man Stableford and picked up if a hole got really out of hand.
Sounds like it was agony out there. No point in making the game a misery for yourself.
Sounds like it was agony out there. No point in making the game a misery for yourself.
Golfmmad
Tour Winner
Sorry to bring this up again but haven't had a chance to reply before now.
When I read the above late last night, couldn't believe what I was reading.
Murph, I usually enjoy reading your posts, especially the ones with your wicked sense of humour, but I cannot agree with you on this.
If there's a way to alienate golfers and make the game seem elitist, then this is surely it. Whatever next, high handicappers banned from the course whilst low handicappers walk the hallowed turf!
If ever high handicappers were stopped from playing medals, I'm sure there would be many golfers walking away from their clubs in protest. I'd be the first one and would go back to being a Nomad golfer and saying, stuff the membership and sod the handicap!
Golfmmad.
janmolby
Assistant Pro
I'd say play away, you've paid your money & weren't intentionally slowing up play, just playing crap like us high handicappers do from time to time. I get what people are saying about holding things up & affecting your playing partners but everyone has been in a similar situation.
I played on Saturday with a lad who hadn't played in 8 months & on the first hole (par 4) he must have taken at least 10 shots but I didn't say anything to him because I knew how he felt. We didn't hold things up too much by moving quickly when we could but if you stop people playing just because they're playing bad then they won't improve.
I played on Saturday with a lad who hadn't played in 8 months & on the first hole (par 4) he must have taken at least 10 shots but I didn't say anything to him because I knew how he felt. We didn't hold things up too much by moving quickly when we could but if you stop people playing just because they're playing bad then they won't improve.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
But if h/caps are based on stableford (they are), why hack about shooting 15 on one hole? OK, if you N/R the medal is over, but it is with a 15 on the card too, so what's the difference? Golf is meant to be fun, a recreational persuit, not an endurance fest. If you look at the scores in the average medal, out of 150 odd entrants, about 20 will N/R, and about 50 will be 8 or more shots over their h/cap. So about half the field probably haven't enjoyed it, and have probably spent close to 5 hours moaning at the pace of play. Does anyone enjoy hitting 8 over their h/cap? I don't. This insistence on stroke play is insane, as most of us (including me) do not have the ability to play this form of the game. That much is obvious since even CONGU have recognised the need for h/caps to be adjusted on stableford, and not strokeplay.
Yes, medal is a challenge, yes it can be enjoyable (but only when there is a chance of a decent score), but in general, play would flow better, and most would be better off (and happier) if they could pick up every now and then. You are more likely to keep your focus (for the next hole) if you pick up after 6 shots, than if you are forced to play out a phone book score, purely to complete a card. Medal plays into the hands of the low handicaps anyway, so why not split the divisions?
Yes, medal is a challenge, yes it can be enjoyable (but only when there is a chance of a decent score), but in general, play would flow better, and most would be better off (and happier) if they could pick up every now and then. You are more likely to keep your focus (for the next hole) if you pick up after 6 shots, than if you are forced to play out a phone book score, purely to complete a card. Medal plays into the hands of the low handicaps anyway, so why not split the divisions?
janmolby
Assistant Pro
But if you N/R one hole does that mean you N/R the card, or is the card still valid but not as far as winning a prize goes?
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
That is the question.
If the card is an N/R, that is where the issue lies. It is daft making guys play out, just so that it can be stableford adjusted later, and the high score discarded.
As to the answer, I don't know, but I would guess an N/R voids all the score.
If the card is an N/R, that is where the issue lies. It is daft making guys play out, just so that it can be stableford adjusted later, and the high score discarded.
As to the answer, I don't know, but I would guess an N/R voids all the score.
It's a N/R as far as the competition goes, but I think your card can still be used for handicap adjustments.
I N/R'd on the 16th last week, but still punched in all my scores on the HDID web site (putting 0 on the 16th & 17th holes) and it gave me 2x7's for the two holes (par 4's) so I assume if I'd have been scoring well, it would have adjusted my h'cap down.
