What to do? what to do?

[G1BB0]

25!!!! I am not giving you 2 shots

just play, score well and get the cuts. Sod what anyone else thinks, you handed in 3 cards and your h/c is what it is.

Presentation night will be fun @ yours

 

[El Bandito]

Did you try to play badly? if not - get out there and play. what else you going to do? Submit some cards from your very best days over the next six months? If you have been honest, then you have been honest. Regardless of your handicap, win a comp and there will be some people that call you a bandit..if you keep entering, playing honestly then your handicap will reflect your ability.

 

[rosecott]

Speak to your club secretary, then you're covered.


If you're off 25 then I'm a 35 h/capper

Was very tempted to say "he is and you are" but I resisted the temptation.

 

[Billysboots]

Sorry to depart from the party line here, but if those three cards were the result of playing with a card in your hand, how do you know your game is going to be significantly better in a competition round?!

There's a world of difference between knocking it round in "75 to 85" off the yellows when you're playing for fun and playing competition golf. I accept your "handicap" on golfshake was 9, but how accurate was that? Did you submit all your rounds? Even if you did, it will be a guide only, and probably not all that accurate. My "handicap" on Golfshot is nearly four strokes less than my official handicap, due mainly to the fact that, over the three years I have used the app, it has of course calculated it against SSS and not CSS.

My advice? Just enter some competitions and see how you get on. Whilst I don't doubt you will find 25 is too high, equally I'll bet you won't play anywhere close to 9.

 

[patricks148]

Sorry to depart from the party line here, but if those three cards were the result of playing with a card in your hand, how do you know your game is going to be significantly better in a competition round?!

There's a world of difference between knocking it round in "75 to 85" off the yellows when you're playing for fun and playing competition golf. I accept your "handicap" on golfshake was 9, but how accurate was that? Did you submit all your rounds? Even if you did, it will be a guide only, and probably not all that accurate. My "handicap" on Golfshot is nearly four strokes less than my official handicap, due mainly to the fact that, over the three years I have used the app, it has of course calculated it against SSS and not CSS.

My advice? Just enter some competitions and see how you get on. Whilst I don't doubt you will find 25 is too high, equally I'll bet you won't play anywhere close to 9.

Ah the Voice of Reason.

 

[dotty001]

25!!!! I am not giving you 2 shots

just play, score well and get the cuts. Sod what anyone else thinks, you handed in 3 cards and your h/c is what it is.

Presentation night will be fun @ yours

this, and what Patrick said

 

[Region3]

I can almost hear what people are thinking, "oh yeah another high handicap thinks he's better than he is...."

I've played with Captainron at Hollinwell. Not an easy course, and off 25 he would have had 47 points. He played off 8 on the day and won, in fact he beat myself and Hobbit gross. Never a 25.

Choices.
1) Play off 25 in comps and see how you do but risk the accusations if the game comes back.
2) Write your handicap as something lower on your competition card until it comes down.
3) Play supplementaries until it comes down.
4) (Probably what I would do) Play off 25 in comps. If you play around or just under handicap all well and good, but if you suddenly start playing well and shoot a silly score just don't sign the card. DQ'd from comp but still get the cut.

Good luck getting it near where it should be.
The last thing we need on the forum is another 25hc that hits the ball 300yds!! :rofl:

 

[Billysboots]

Choices.
1) Play off 25 in comps and see how you do but risk the accusations if the game comes back.
2) Write your handicap as something lower on your competition card until it comes down.
3) Play supplementaries until it comes down.
4) (Probably what I would do) Play off 25 in comps. If you play around or just under handicap all well and good, but if you suddenly start playing well and shoot a silly score just don't sign the card. DQ'd from comp but still get the cut.

The problem with 2 is that there can't be many clubs left these days which don't run software to administer competitions.

I like your Option 4 - if he played to 8 at Notts then 25 would seem to be too high, so to save any accusations DQing himself like that would seem the best option. Although of course it won't stop anyone knowing what he actually scored!

 

[Birchy]

Anybody who has seen this fella hit a ball will know what he is getting at with this post.

25 is about 15 too many :rofl:

 

[Deleted member 17920]

I reckon that supplementary cards are the way to go.

Cameron this is the way to go. The way you played the other week wasn't a 25 handicap level. You may have had the hosel rockets but you ARE NOT a 25 handicap golfer!!!! Now get that application in for the trilby tour

 

[pokerjoke]

As most of you know I have recently joined Spalding Golf Club and have handed in my 3 cards and have been given my first official club handicap.

I am not a bad golfer in general. Strike the ball pretty well, hit it a fair distance and am usually round between 75 and 85. Bad days come in at around 90. Fairly consistent even with a poor short game. Used to play off a 9 from my golfshake rounds.

Now back to the 3 cards. Well I played badly - really badly. Shanks and slices causing me no end of grief on a course where you have to plot your way around. Missing the fairways adds a shot to the hole because you invariably have to play out sideways. Coupled with some horrendous putting means that I signed for 3 HORROR SHOWS at 102, 99 and 96.

Been allocated a 25. TWENTY FIVE!!!!

I want to play in club competitions but I fear that 25 puts me in the 'El Bandito Grande' category.

Played with a mate on Sunday and knocked it round in 92 which would have given me 42 points. my game is not far off coming back - spent some time on the range - and if I play 'normally' I am in danger of 50 odd points.

What would you do?

Not enter comps and just put in some sup cards to bring it down?
Just play off 25 and see what happens?

Really in a pickle here.

To be honest you are in a massive hole.
And I mention the word "honest".
You say you had 3 terrible rounds,ok we have all had them,but and its a big but,
do you really feel you have been honest.
You say if you play "normal " you could score 50,imagine if you play a blinder.
To be honest ive never understood players that play golf for years and don't get an official handicap.
In your own words you could be in the bandit category,is that really fair.
Have you ever heard the saying "do the right thing, because its the right thing to do?.

 

[rosecott]

2) Write your handicap as something lower on your competition card until it comes down.

The problem with 2 is that there can't be many clubs left these days which don't run software to administer competitions.

Not quite sure what you mean. If the player enters on his card a handicap lower than his actual handicap, the software accepts the lower handicap - for that competition only. Any handicap adjustment is calculated on the actual handicap.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Im another one who has been fortunate enough to play with The Capt'n and would agree with others that 25 is far too high for a man of his calibre

I'd have said about 13/15 is a better starting point

Speak to the secretary, can you re-do the 3 cards?
Deffo put in some sup cards (not more than 1 a week)

No way am I giving you 6 shots pal

 

[Billysboots]

Not quite sure what you mean. If the player enters on his card a handicap lower than his actual handicap, the software accepts the lower handicap - for that competition only. Any handicap adjustment is calculated on the actual handicap.

Then I can only assume not all systems are the same!

Our software manages handicaps, so when you enter your gross scores the system calculates net scores or stableford points. I assumed all systems did the same - we don't enter our handicap when entering scores. If the OP's club use a similar system then it matters not what handicap he writes on his card.

 

[GB72]

Get your application in quick for the Trilby Tour.

 

[chris661]

Don't take this the wrong way but maybe just maybe that is actually your level at the minute when you have a card in your hand and it "matters".

I can knock it round sub 80 at my place in a bounce game pretty easily but my usual in a comp is around 10 - 11 over. I would just play with the handicap you have been given and enjoy it. You never know you might actually struggle.

 

[rosecott]

Then I can only assume not all systems are the same!

Our software manages handicaps, so when you enter your gross scores the system calculates net scores or stableford points. I assumed all systems did the same - we don't enter our handicap when entering scores. If the OP's club use a similar system then it matters not what handicap he writes on his card.

There must be a system for entering a handicap lower than the actual on your system. What would happen if a player had to self-reduce his handicap for an Away score which had not been actioned on his system? If there was no such provision players who needed to reduce their handicap for that reason would be disqualified. What handicapping software are you talking about?

 

[Foxholer]

Then I can only assume not all systems are the same!

Our software manages handicaps, so when you enter your gross scores the system calculates net scores or stableford points. I assumed all systems did the same - we don't enter our handicap when entering scores. If the OP's club use a similar system then it matters not what handicap he writes on his card.

There has to be some method of overriding the handicap that the system holds for an individual comp. Otherwise any reductions from Away scores, that have not yet been actioned, could not be handled properly. I certainly know that Club2000 non-PSI allowed the handicap for the competition to be amended after the player was selected. I don't think Congu would approve the license if there wasn't an override mechanism.


As for the OP's problem. A discussion with the Handicapm Sec'y ould be advised. A few Supplementaries would be appropriate - after you've got rid of the Shermans.

 

[full_throttle]

25 can I be your betterball partner?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Then I can only assume not all systems are the same!

Our software manages handicaps, so when you enter your gross scores the system calculates net scores or stableford points. I assumed all systems did the same - we don't enter our handicap when entering scores. If the OP's club use a similar system then it matters not what handicap he writes on his card.

What you enter on the computer is checked by the h'cap\comp secretary, if you put a lower h'cap on your card then your score is adjusted accordingly for the comp but the h'cap is adjusted according to the official h'cap. I guess the benefit of doing this if the OP thinks his h'cap is too high is that he eoesn't return a score that will get him labelled as a bandit but still gets the h'cap cut.