What Hcp do you tell people?

[Backsticks]

Does anyone else give the 'should be' number as well? "I'm off 15 but should be about 13 really."

One does hear it! It must be the most pathetic statement in golf.

Someone familiar with golf could respond - oh, so you freely admit you are manipulating your handicap, and a cheat ?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

One does hear it! It must be the most pathetic statement in golf.

Someone familiar with golf could respond - oh, so you freely admit you are manipulating your handicap, and a cheat ?

In same vein - 13 but I used to be 6.

...erm...and...?

 

[Orikoru]

One does hear it! It must be the most pathetic statement in golf.

Someone familiar with golf could respond - oh, so you freely admit you are manipulating your handicap, and a cheat ?

I just meant it in the context that most of us aren't as good as we think we are. Me included - I believe I should be off 12 or 13 in my head because I can play to that on a good day - but that's old handicap system mentality.

I don't think many people would openly admit handicap manipulation on a whim.